Medium purple

#bb83fa

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, light and vivid. Purples like this signal creativity and a premium feel. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Medium purple color values

Every conversion for #bb83fa, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#bb83fa

RGB187, 131, 250

HSL268, 92%, 75%

HSV268, 48%, 98%

CMYK25%, 48%, 0%, 2%

Lab64.72, 44.23, -51.62

XYZ45.87, 33.7, 94.53

Decimal12289018

Web safe#cc99ff

Pantone2572 C

Shades of medium purple

#a961f9 #9640f7 #841ef6 #7209e8 #6108c6 #5107a4 #400582 #300461 #1f033f #0e011d

Tints of medium purple

#c18efa #c798fb #cda3fb #d2aefc #d8b8fc #dec3fd #e4cefd #ead8fd #f0e3fe #f6eefe

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#c2fa83 Analogous#8386fa Analogous#f783fa Triadic#fabb83 Triadic#83fabb Split complementary#faf783 Split complementary#86fa83

Medium purple in print

The saturation is high, which is where rgb and cmyk drift apart, so a printed proof is worth it. The cmyk build is 25, 48, 0, 2.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #bb83fa on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

25 48 0 2

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

27 48 4 8

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 #bb83fa straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #bb83fa; }
.text { color: #bb83fa; }
.border { border: 2px solid #bb83fa; }

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 #bb83fa against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #bb83fa 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 #bb83fa 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 #bb83fa 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.

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How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #bb83fa are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.