Light purple

#bca7ea

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

This is Light purple, a strong purple at 259 degrees. Purples like this signal creativity and a premium feel. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Light purple color values

Every conversion for #bca7ea, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#bca7ea

RGB188, 167, 234

HSL259, 61%, 79%

HSV259, 29%, 92%

CMYK20%, 29%, 0%, 8%

Lab72.41, 20.96, -30.84

XYZ49.41, 44.27, 83.78

Decimal12363754

Web safe#cc99ff

Pantone2705 C

Shades of light purple

#a589e3 #8e6bdc #784dd5 #6131cc #532aae #452290 #371b72 #281455 #1a0d37 #0c0619

Tints of light purple

#c2aeec #c7b6ee #cdbdef #d2c4f1 #d8ccf3 #ded3f5 #e3dbf6 #e9e2f8 #eee9fa #f4f1fc

Colors that go with light purple

Complementary#d5eaa7 Analogous#a7b4ea Analogous#dda7ea Triadic#eabca7 Triadic#a7eabc Split complementary#eadda7 Split complementary#b4eaa7

Light purple in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 20, 29, 0, 8.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #bca7ea on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

20 29 0 8

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

22 31 4 14

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.

Light purple in css

Copy #bca7ea straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #bca7ea; }
.text { color: #bca7ea; }
.border { border: 2px solid #bca7ea; }

How light purple looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Light purple and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #bca7ea against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #bca7ea against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Light purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #bca7ea sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around light 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 light purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #bca7ea 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 light purple, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #bca7ea is computed, not guessed. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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.