Purple

#ab8fca

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. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #ab8fca, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ab8fca

RGB171, 143, 202

HSL268, 36%, 68%

HSV268, 29%, 79%

CMYK15%, 29%, 0%, 21%

Lab63.81, 21.99, -26.55

XYZ37.28, 32.57, 60.2

Decimal11243466

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone2645 C

Shades of purple

#9b7ac0 #8b64b6 #7b51aa #6c4695 #5c3c7f #4d326a #3d2855 #2e1e3f #1e142a #0f0a15

Tints of purple

#b299cf #baa3d3 #c1add8 #c9b7dd #d0c1e2 #d8cbe6 #dfd5eb #e7dff0 #eee9f5 #f6f3f9

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#aeca8f Analogous#8f91ca Analogous#c88fca Triadic#caab8f Triadic#8fcaab Split complementary#cac88f Split complementary#91ca8f

Purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 15, 29, 0, 21.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ab8fca on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

15 29 0 21

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

18 31 4 27

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 #ab8fca straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ab8fca; }
.text { color: #ab8fca; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ab8fca; }

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 #ab8fca against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ab8fca 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 #ab8fca 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 #ab8fca 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

Every value on this page for #ab8fca is computed, not guessed. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.