Purple

#ac93ca

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

Purple is a mid purple with a balanced 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.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #ac93ca, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ac93ca

RGB172, 147, 202

HSL267, 34%, 68%

HSV267, 27%, 79%

CMYK15%, 27%, 0%, 21%

Lab64.88, 20.05, -24.89

XYZ38.11, 33.9, 60.41

Decimal11310026

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone2645 C

Shades of purple

#9c7ec0 #8b68b5 #7b53aa #6b4995 #5c3e7f #4d346a #3d2a55 #2e1f3f #1e152a #0f0a15

Tints of purple

#b39dcf #bba6d3 #c2b0d8 #cab9dd #d1c3e2 #d8cde6 #e0d6eb #e7e0f0 #eee9f4 #f6f3f9

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#b1ca93 Analogous#9396ca Analogous#c793ca Triadic#caac93 Triadic#93caac Split complementary#cac893 Split complementary#95ca93

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 15, 27, 0, 21.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ac93ca on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

15 27 0 21

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

18 29 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 #ac93ca straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ac93ca; }
.text { color: #ac93ca; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ac93ca; }

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 #ac93ca against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ac93ca 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 #ac93ca 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 #ac93ca 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 #ac93ca is computed, not guessed. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.