Light purple

#aea9bc

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

Light purple falls in the purple range, light and muted. Purples like this signal creativity and a premium feel. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Light purple color values

Every conversion for #aea9bc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#aea9bc

RGB174, 169, 188

HSL256, 12%, 70%

HSV256, 10%, 74%

CMYK7%, 10%, 0%, 26%

Lab70.18, 5.47, -9.08

XYZ40.72, 41.01, 53.35

Decimal11446716

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone5295 C

Shades of light purple

#9d97ae #8b849f #7a7291 #6b637f #5b556d #4c475b #3c3848 #2d2a36 #1e1c24 #0e0d11

Tints of light purple

#b5b1c2 #bcb8c8 #c3c0ce #cbc7d4 #d2cfda #d9d7e0 #e0dee5 #e7e6eb #eeedf1 #f6f5f7

Colors that go with light purple

Complementary#b7bca9 Analogous#a9adbc Analogous#b8a9bc Triadic#bcaea9 Triadic#a9bcae Split complementary#bcb8a9 Split complementary#adbca9

Light purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 7, 10, 0, 26.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #aea9bc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

7 10 0 26

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

10 13 4 32

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 #aea9bc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #aea9bc; }
.text { color: #aea9bc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #aea9bc; }

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 #aea9bc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #aea9bc 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 #aea9bc 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 #aea9bc 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

Here is how the numbers for #aea9bc are worked out. 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.