Medium violet red

#ae2f78

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

Medium violet red sits in the pink band, deep and strong. Pinks like this read soft and contemporary. It works with sage and olive for balance, or with cream for a gentle palette.

Medium violet red color values

Every conversion for #ae2f78, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ae2f78

RGB174, 47, 120

HSL326, 57%, 43%

HSV326, 73%, 68%

CMYK0%, 73%, 31%, 32%

Lab41.83, 57.1, -12.08

XYZ21.86, 12.39, 19.01

Decimal11415416

Web safe#993366

Pantone241 C

Shades of medium violet red

#9f2b6e #902763 #812359 #721f4f #631b44 #54173a #451330 #360f25 #270b1b #180711

Tints of medium violet red

#c33587 #cd4694 #d35ca0 #d971ac #de86b9 #e49cc5 #eab1d2 #f0c6de #f5dcea #fbf1f7

Colors that go with medium violet red

Complementary#2fae65 Analogous#a52fae Analogous#ae2f38 Triadic#78ae2f Triadic#2f78ae Split complementary#38ae2f Split complementary#2faea5

Medium violet red in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 0, 73, 31, 32.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ae2f78 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 73 31 32

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 71 33 38

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 violet red in css

Copy #ae2f78 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ae2f78; }
.text { color: #ae2f78; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ae2f78; }

How medium violet red looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Medium violet red and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #ae2f78 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ae2f78 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Medium violet red on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ae2f78 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around medium violet red? 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 violet red into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ae2f78 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 violet red, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #ae2f78 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.