Medium purple

#aa85da

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 grounded cast. 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.

Medium purple color values

Every conversion for #aa85da, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#aa85da

RGB170, 133, 218

HSL266, 53%, 69%

HSV266, 39%, 85%

CMYK22%, 39%, 0%, 15%

Lab61.98, 30.98, -38.33

XYZ37.62, 30.38, 70.21

Decimal11175386

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone2715 C

Shades of medium purple

#996cd3 #8854cb #773bc4 #6834ab #592c92 #4a257a #3b1d61 #2c1649 #1d0f30 #0e0717

Tints of medium purple

#b290dd #b99be1 #c1a5e4 #c8b0e7 #d0bbea #d7c6ee #dfd1f1 #e6dcf4 #eee6f8 #f5f1fb

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#b5da85 Analogous#858bda Analogous#d485da Triadic#daaa85 Triadic#85daaa Split complementary#dad485 Split complementary#8bda85

Medium purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 22, 39, 0, 15.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #aa85da on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

22 39 0 15

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

24 40 4 21

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 #aa85da straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #aa85da; }
.text { color: #aa85da; }
.border { border: 2px solid #aa85da; }

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 #aa85da against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #aa85da 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 #aa85da 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 #aa85da 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

The figures for #aa85da 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 value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.