Orchid

#a981bb

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

Orchid 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.

Orchid color values

Every conversion for #a981bb, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a981bb

RGB169, 129, 187

HSL281, 30%, 62%

HSV281, 31%, 73%

CMYK10%, 31%, 0%, 27%

Lab59.64, 26.04, -24.52

XYZ33.18, 27.72, 50.62

Decimal11108795

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone2573 C

Shades of orchid

#9c6eb1 #905ca7 #805196 #704783 #603d71 #51335e #41294b #311f39 #211526 #110b14

Tints of orchid

#b18cc1 #b998c7 #c0a3ce #c8afd4 #d0bada #d8c6e0 #e0d1e6 #e7ddec #efe8f3 #f7f3f9

Colors that go with orchid

Complementary#93bb81 Analogous#8c81bb Analogous#bb81b0 Triadic#bba981 Triadic#81bba9 Split complementary#b0bb81 Split complementary#81bb8c

Orchid in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 10, 31, 0, 27.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a981bb on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

10 31 0 27

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

13 33 4 33

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.

Orchid in css

Copy #a981bb straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a981bb; }
.text { color: #a981bb; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a981bb; }

How orchid looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Orchid and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #a981bb against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a981bb against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Orchid on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #a981bb sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn orchid into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #a981bb 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 orchid, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #a981bb are worked out. 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.