Medium purple

#b66dee

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

Medium purple falls in the purple range, mid and strong. 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.

Medium purple color values

Every conversion for #b66dee, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#b66dee

RGB182, 109, 238

HSL274, 79%, 68%

HSV274, 54%, 93%

CMYK24%, 54%, 0%, 7%

Lab59.03, 51.91, -54.07

XYZ40.19, 27.06, 83.99

Decimal11955694

Web safe#cc66ff

Pantone2655 C

Shades of medium purple

#a851eb #9a34e7 #8b1ae2 #7a17c5 #6814a9 #57108d #450d70 #340a54 #220638 #11031b

Tints of medium purple

#bd7af0 #c387f1 #ca94f3 #d0a1f4 #d7aef6 #ddbbf7 #e4c8f9 #ead5fa #f1e2fc #f7effd

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#a5ee6d Analogous#756dee Analogous#ee6de6 Triadic#eeb66d Triadic#6deeb6 Split complementary#e6ee6d Split complementary#6dee76

Medium purple in print

It is saturated enough that the cmyk build can shift slightly from screen to press, so proof it. The cmyk build is 24, 54, 0, 7.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #b66dee on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

24 54 0 7

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

26 54 4 13

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 #b66dee straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #b66dee; }
.text { color: #b66dee; }
.border { border: 2px solid #b66dee; }

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 #b66dee against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #b66dee 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 #b66dee 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 #b66dee 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

Here is how the numbers for #b66dee 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.