Medium purple

#af73ea

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

Medium purple is a mid purple with a confident cast. A mid purple this rich reads creative and a little premium. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Medium purple color values

Every conversion for #af73ea, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#af73ea

RGB175, 115, 234

HSL270, 74%, 68%

HSV270, 51%, 92%

CMYK25%, 51%, 0%, 8%

Lab59.27, 46.05, -51.51

XYZ38.66, 27.32, 81.08

Decimal11498474

Web safe#9966ff

Pantone2655 C

Shades of medium purple

#9f57e6 #8f3ce2 #8021dc #701dc1 #5f19a5 #4f1589 #3f106e #2f0c52 #1f0836 #0f041b

Tints of medium purple

#b67fec #bd8cee #c498f0 #cba5f1 #d3b1f3 #dabef5 #e1caf7 #e8d7f9 #efe3fb #f6effd

Colors that go with medium purple

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Medium purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 25, 51, 0, 8.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #af73ea on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

25 51 0 8

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

27 51 4 14

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

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 purple in css

Copy #af73ea straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #af73ea; }
.text { color: #af73ea; }
.border { border: 2px solid #af73ea; }

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 #af73ea against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #af73ea against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Medium purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #af73ea 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 the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn medium purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #af73ea 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

Every value on this page for #af73ea is computed, not guessed. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.