Plum

#ad85b8

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

Plum falls in the purple range, mid and muted. 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.

Plum color values

Every conversion for #ad85b8, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ad85b8

RGB173, 133, 184

HSL287, 26%, 62%

HSV287, 28%, 72%

CMYK6%, 28%, 0%, 28%

Lab60.89, 24.47, -20.87

XYZ34.27, 29.12, 49.16

Decimal11371960

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone521 C

Shades of plum

#a173ad #9561a3 #855592 #744a80 #64406e #53355c #432b4a #332038 #221625 #120b13

Tints of plum

#b490be #bc9bc5 #c3a6cb #cbb1d2 #d2bcd8 #dac7df #e1d3e5 #e9deec #f0e9f2 #f7f4f8

Colors that go with plum

Complementary#90b885 Analogous#9385b8 Analogous#b885aa Triadic#b8ad85 Triadic#85b8ad Split complementary#aab885 Split complementary#85b894

Plum in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 6, 28, 0, 28.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ad85b8 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

6 28 0 28

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

10 30 4 34

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.

Plum in css

Copy #ad85b8 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ad85b8; }
.text { color: #ad85b8; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ad85b8; }

How plum looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Plum and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #ad85b8 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ad85b8 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Plum on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ad85b8 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn plum into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ad85b8 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 plum, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #ad85b8 is computed, not guessed. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.