Purple

#a69ebd

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for purple, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

This is Purple, a muted purple at 255 degrees. A mid purple this rich reads creative and a little premium. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #a69ebd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a69ebd

RGB166, 158, 189

HSL255, 19%, 68%

HSV255, 16%, 74%

CMYK12%, 16%, 0%, 26%

Lab66.7, 9.08, -14.92

XYZ37.14, 36.23, 53.18

Decimal10919613

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone270 C

Shades of purple

#958bb0 #8378a3 #726696 #645983 #564c70 #47405e #39334b #2b2638 #1c1925 #0e0c12

Tints of purple

#aea7c3 #b6afc9 #beb8cf #c6c1d5 #cec9da #d6d2e0 #dddae6 #e5e3ec #edecf2 #f5f4f8

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#b5bd9e Analogous#9ea6bd Analogous#b69ebd Triadic#bda69e Triadic#9ebda6 Split complementary#bdb69e Split complementary#a6bd9e

Purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 12, 16, 0, 26.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a69ebd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

12 16 0 26

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

15 19 4 32

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Purple in css

Copy #a69ebd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a69ebd; }
.text { color: #a69ebd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a69ebd; }

How purple looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Purple and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #a69ebd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a69ebd against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #a69ebd sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around purple? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #a69ebd and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from purple, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #a69ebd come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.