Plum

#b090cd

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

This is Plum, a soft purple at 271 degrees. 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.

Plum color values

Every conversion for #b090cd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#b090cd

RGB176, 144, 205

HSL271, 38%, 68%

HSV271, 30%, 80%

CMYK14%, 30%, 0%, 20%

Lab64.63, 23.67, -26.92

XYZ38.9, 33.58, 62.19

Decimal11571405

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone2645 C

Shades of plum

#a07ac3 #9164b9 #814faf #714599 #613b83 #50316d #402757 #301d41 #20132b #100a15

Tints of plum

#b79ad1 #bea4d6 #c5aeda #ccb7df #d3c1e3 #dacbe8 #e1d5ec #e8dff1 #efe9f5 #f6f3f9

Colors that go with plum

Complementary#adcd90 Analogous#9290cd Analogous#cd90cb Triadic#cdb090 Triadic#90cdb0 Split complementary#cbcd90 Split complementary#90cd92

Plum in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 14, 30, 0, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #b090cd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

14 30 0 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

17 32 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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Plum in css

Copy #b090cd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #b090cd; }
.text { color: #b090cd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #b090cd; }

How plum looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Plum and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #b090cd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #b090cd against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Plum on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #b090cd sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn plum into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #b090cd 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 plum, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #b090cd is computed, not guessed. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.