Medium purple

#ae8de5

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

Medium purple falls in the purple range, light and strong. Purples like this signal creativity and a premium feel. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Medium purple color values

Every conversion for #ae8de5, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ae8de5

RGB174, 141, 229

HSL263, 63%, 73%

HSV263, 38%, 90%

CMYK24%, 38%, 0%, 10%

Lab64.73, 30.2, -40.12

XYZ41.12, 33.71, 78.47

Decimal11439589

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone2645 C

Shades of medium purple

#9a71df #8756d8 #733ad2 #632cbf #5425a3 #461f87 #38196c #2a1250 #1b0c35 #0d0619

Tints of medium purple

#b597e7 #bca1ea #c3abec #cab5ee #d1bff0 #d8c9f3 #dfd3f5 #e7ddf7 #eee7f9 #f5f0fc

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#c4e58d Analogous#8d98e5 Analogous#da8de5 Triadic#e5ae8d Triadic#8de5ae Split complementary#e5da8d Split complementary#98e58d

Medium purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 24, 38, 0, 10.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ae8de5 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

24 38 0 10

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

26 39 4 16

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Medium purple in css

Copy #ae8de5 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ae8de5; }
.text { color: #ae8de5; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ae8de5; }

How medium purple looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Medium purple and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #ae8de5 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ae8de5 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Medium purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ae8de5 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around medium purple? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn medium purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ae8de5 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 purple, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #ae8de5 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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.