Plum

#b288ca

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

Plum 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.

Plum color values

Every conversion for #b288ca, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#b288ca

RGB178, 136, 202

HSL278, 38%, 66%

HSV278, 33%, 79%

CMYK12%, 33%, 0%, 21%

Lab62.79, 28.16, -28.06

XYZ37.82, 31.34, 59.93

Decimal11700426

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone2645 C

Shades of plum

#a473c1 #965db7 #884caa #774295 #663980 #552f6a #442655 #331c40 #22132a #110915

Tints of plum

#b993cf #c09dd3 #c7a8d8 #ceb3dd #d5bde2 #dbc8e6 #e2d3eb #e9ddf0 #f0e8f5 #f7f3f9

Colors that go with plum

Complementary#a0ca88 Analogous#9188ca Analogous#ca88c1 Triadic#cab288 Triadic#88cab2 Split complementary#c1ca88 Split complementary#88ca91

Plum in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 12, 33, 0, 21.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #b288ca on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

12 33 0 21

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

15 34 4 27

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 #b288ca straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #b288ca; }
.text { color: #b288ca; }
.border { border: 2px solid #b288ca; }

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 #b288ca against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #b288ca 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 #b288ca 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 #b288ca 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

Here is how the numbers for #b288ca are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.