Light purple

#ac9bcd

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

Light purple is a light purple with a soft cast. Purples like this signal creativity and a premium feel. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Light purple color values

Every conversion for #ac9bcd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ac9bcd

RGB172, 155, 205

HSL260, 33%, 71%

HSV260, 24%, 80%

CMYK16%, 24%, 0%, 20%

Lab66.99, 16.2, -23.33

XYZ39.75, 36.62, 62.73

Decimal11312077

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone2705 C

Shades of light purple

#9a85c2 #886fb7 #7559ac #664c98 #574182 #49366c #3a2b56 #2b2040 #1c152a #0e0a14

Tints of light purple

#b3a4d1 #bbadd6 #c2b5da #c9bedf #d1c7e3 #d8d0e7 #dfd9ec #e6e1f0 #eeeaf5 #f5f3f9

Colors that go with light purple

Complementary#bccd9b Analogous#9ba3cd Analogous#c59bcd Triadic#cdac9b Triadic#9bcdac Split complementary#cdc59b Split complementary#a3cd9b

Light 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 16, 24, 0, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ac9bcd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

16 24 0 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

19 26 4 26

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.

Light purple in css

Copy #ac9bcd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ac9bcd; }
.text { color: #ac9bcd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ac9bcd; }

How light purple looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Light purple and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #ac9bcd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ac9bcd against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Light purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ac9bcd sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around light 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 light purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ac9bcd 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 light purple, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #ac9bcd 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.