Medium purple

#a779c4

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

Medium purple is a mid purple with a confident cast. 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.

Medium purple color values

Every conversion for #a779c4, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a779c4

RGB167, 121, 196

HSL277, 39%, 62%

HSV277, 38%, 77%

CMYK15%, 38%, 0%, 23%

Lab57.92, 31.87, -32.31

XYZ32.74, 25.88, 55.49

Decimal10975684

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone2577 C

Shades of medium purple

#9a65bb #8d51b2 #7e47a0 #6e3e8d #5f3579 #4f2c65 #3f2451 #301b3d #201229 #110915

Tints of medium purple

#af85c9 #b791cf #bf9dd4 #c7aad9 #cfb6df #d7c2e4 #dfcee9 #e7daef #efe6f4 #f7f3fa

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#96c479 Analogous#8179c4 Analogous#c479bc Triadic#c4a779 Triadic#79c4a7 Split complementary#bbc479 Split complementary#79c482

Medium purple in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 15, 38, 0, 23.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a779c4 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

15 38 0 23

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

18 39 4 29

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.

Medium purple in css

Copy #a779c4 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a779c4; }
.text { color: #a779c4; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a779c4; }

How medium purple looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Medium purple and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #a779c4 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a779c4 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Medium purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #a779c4 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around medium 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 medium purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #a779c4 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 medium purple, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #a779c4 are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.