Purple

#a893cd

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

Purple falls in the purple range, mid and soft. A mid purple this rich reads creative and a little premium. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #a893cd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a893cd

RGB168, 147, 205

HSL262, 37%, 69%

HSV262, 28%, 80%

CMYK18%, 28%, 0%, 20%

Lab64.64, 19.45, -26.96

XYZ37.6, 33.6, 62.26

Decimal11047885

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone271 C

Shades of purple

#967dc3 #8567b9 #7351ae #644799 #563d83 #48326d #392857 #2b1e41 #1c142b #0e0a15

Tints of purple

#b09dd1 #b7a6d6 #bfb0da #c7b9df #cfc3e3 #d6cce8 #ded6ec #e6e0f0 #ede9f5 #f5f3f9

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#b8cd93 Analogous#939bcd Analogous#c593cd Triadic#cda893 Triadic#93cda8 Split complementary#cdc593 Split complementary#9bcd93

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 18, 28, 0, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a893cd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

18 28 0 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

21 30 4 26

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 #a893cd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a893cd; }
.text { color: #a893cd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a893cd; }

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 #a893cd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a893cd 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 #a893cd 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 #a893cd 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 #a893cd 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.