Plum

#b49ec2

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 muted. 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 #b49ec2, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#b49ec2

RGB180, 158, 194

HSL277, 23%, 69%

HSV277, 19%, 76%

CMYK7%, 19%, 0%, 24%

Lab68.06, 14.81, -15.53

XYZ40.79, 38.05, 56.23

Decimal11837122

Web safe#cc99cc

Pantone666 C

Shades of plum

#a58ab6 #9577a9 #86639d #755689 #644a75 #543d62 #43314e #32253a #211827 #100c13

Tints of plum

#bba7c7 #c1afcd #c8b8d2 #cfc0d8 #d5c9dd #dcd2e2 #e3dae8 #e9e3ed #f0ebf3 #f7f4f8

Colors that go with plum

Complementary#acc29e Analogous#a29ec2 Analogous#c29ebe Triadic#c2b49e Triadic#9ec2b4 Split complementary#bec29e Split complementary#9ec2a2

Plum in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 7, 19, 0, 24.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #b49ec2 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

7 19 0 24

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

10 21 4 30

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 #b49ec2 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #b49ec2; }
.text { color: #b49ec2; }
.border { border: 2px solid #b49ec2; }

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 #b49ec2 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #b49ec2 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 #b49ec2 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 #b49ec2 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 #b49ec2 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.