Medium purple

#b894e5

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

Medium purple is a light purple with a soft cast. Purples like this signal creativity and a premium feel. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Medium purple color values

Every conversion for #b894e5, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#b894e5

RGB184, 148, 229

HSL267, 61%, 74%

HSV267, 35%, 90%

CMYK20%, 35%, 0%, 10%

Lab67.3, 29.21, -36.05

XYZ44.5, 37.03, 78.93

Decimal12096741

Web safe#cc99cc

Pantone2645 C

Shades of medium purple

#a678de #935cd7 #8140d1 #6f2fc0 #5f28a4 #4f2188 #3f1a6c #2f1450 #1e0d34 #0e0619

Tints of medium purple

#be9de7 #c4a7ea #cab0ec #d1b9ee #d7c2f0 #ddccf3 #e3d5f5 #e9def7 #efe7f9 #f5f1fc

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#c1e594 Analogous#9498e5 Analogous#e194e5 Triadic#e5b894 Triadic#94e5b8 Split complementary#e5e194 Split complementary#99e594

Medium purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 20, 35, 0, 10.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #b894e5 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

20 35 0 10

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

22 36 4 16

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.

Medium purple in css

Copy #b894e5 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #b894e5; }
.text { color: #b894e5; }
.border { border: 2px solid #b894e5; }

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 #b894e5 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #b894e5 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 #b894e5 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 #b894e5 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

Every value on this page for #b894e5 is computed, not guessed. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.