Plum

#b28fbe

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

This is Plum, a muted purple at 285 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 #b28fbe, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#b28fbe

RGB178, 143, 190

HSL285, 27%, 65%

HSV285, 25%, 75%

CMYK6%, 25%, 0%, 25%

Lab64.02, 21.73, -19.43

XYZ37.48, 32.83, 53.08

Decimal11702206

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone2567 C

Shades of plum

#a57cb3 #9869a8 #895999 #784e86 #674373 #563860 #452d4d #33213a #221626 #110b13

Tints of plum

#b999c4 #c0a3ca #c7add0 #ceb7d5 #d5c1db #dccbe1 #e2d5e7 #e9e0ed #f0eaf3 #f7f4f8

Colors that go with plum

Complementary#9bbe8f Analogous#9a8fbe Analogous#be8fb3 Triadic#beb28f Triadic#8fbeb2 Split complementary#b3be8f Split complementary#8fbe9b

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 6, 25, 0, 25.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #b28fbe on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

6 25 0 25

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

10 27 4 31

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.

Plum in css

Copy #b28fbe straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #b28fbe; }
.text { color: #b28fbe; }
.border { border: 2px solid #b28fbe; }

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 #b28fbe against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #b28fbe against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Plum on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #b28fbe 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 the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn plum into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #b28fbe 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 #b28fbe is computed, not guessed. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.