Plum

#bd93df

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

This is Plum, a soft purple at 273 degrees. Purples like this signal creativity and a premium feel. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Plum color values

Every conversion for #bd93df, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#bd93df

RGB189, 147, 223

HSL273, 54%, 73%

HSV273, 34%, 87%

CMYK15%, 34%, 0%, 13%

Lab67.29, 29.95, -32.71

XYZ44.74, 37.01, 74.6

Decimal12424159

Web safe#cc99cc

Pantone2645 C

Shades of plum

#ad79d7 #9d5fcf #8d44c8 #7c36b5 #6a2e9b #582680 #461e66 #34174c #220f32 #100718

Tints of plum

#c39ce2 #c9a6e5 #ceafe7 #d4b9ea #dac2ed #e0ccf0 #e5d5f3 #ebdef5 #f1e8f8 #f7f1fb

Colors that go with plum

Complementary#b5df93 Analogous#9793df Analogous#df93db Triadic#dfbd93 Triadic#93dfbd Split complementary#dbdf93 Split complementary#93df97

Plum in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 15, 34, 0, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #bd93df on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

15 34 0 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

18 35 4 19

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 #bd93df straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #bd93df; }
.text { color: #bd93df; }
.border { border: 2px solid #bd93df; }

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 #bd93df against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #bd93df 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 #bd93df 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 #bd93df 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

Here is how the numbers for #bd93df are worked out. 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.