Purple

#ae92cc

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

Purple falls in the purple range, mid and soft. 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.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #ae92cc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ae92cc

RGB174, 146, 204

HSL269, 36%, 69%

HSV269, 28%, 80%

CMYK15%, 28%, 0%, 20%

Lab64.9, 21.69, -25.97

XYZ38.63, 33.92, 61.64

Decimal11440844

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone2645 C

Shades of purple

#9e7cc2 #8e66b8 #7e51ad #6e4797 #5e3d82 #4e326c #3e2856 #2f1e40 #1f142b #0f0a15

Tints of purple

#b59cd1 #bca5d5 #c4afda #cbb9de #d2c2e3 #d9cce7 #e0d6ec #e8dff0 #efe9f5 #f6f3f9

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#b0cc92 Analogous#9293cc Analogous#cb92cc Triadic#ccae92 Triadic#92ccae Split complementary#cccb92 Split complementary#93cc92

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, 28, 0, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ae92cc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

15 28 0 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

18 30 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.

Purple in css

Copy #ae92cc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ae92cc; }
.text { color: #ae92cc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ae92cc; }

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 #ae92cc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ae92cc 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 #ae92cc 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 #ae92cc 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

Here is how the numbers for #ae92cc are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. The coated and uncoated cmyk builds differ because uncoated stock absorbs more ink and gains dot, so the same color needs a heavier, slightly duller build on press. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.