Medium purple

#a970ea

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

Medium purple falls in the purple range, mid and strong. 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 #a970ea, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a970ea

RGB169, 112, 234

HSL268, 74%, 68%

HSV268, 52%, 92%

CMYK28%, 52%, 0%, 8%

Lab58.0, 46.13, -53.56

XYZ37.01, 25.96, 80.9

Decimal11104490

Web safe#9966ff

Pantone2655 C

Shades of medium purple

#9854e6 #8839e2 #7820db #691cc0 #5a18a4 #4b1489 #3c106d #2d0c52 #1e0836 #0f041b

Tints of medium purple

#b17dec #b889ee #c096f0 #c8a3f1 #cfb0f3 #d7bcf5 #dfc9f7 #e6d6f9 #eee3fb #f6effd

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#b1ea70 Analogous#7074ea Analogous#e670ea Triadic#eaa970 Triadic#70eaa9 Split complementary#eae670 Split complementary#74ea70

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 28, 52, 0, 8.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a970ea on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

28 52 0 8

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

30 52 4 14

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

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

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 #a970ea straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a970ea; }
.text { color: #a970ea; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a970ea; }

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 #a970ea against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a970ea 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 #a970ea 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 #a970ea 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.

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How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #a970ea are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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. The Pantone value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.