Plum

#bf8baf

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

Plum is a mid pink, confident and easy to pair. Pinks like this read soft and contemporary. It works with sage and olive for balance, or with cream for a gentle palette.

Plum color values

Every conversion for #bf8baf, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#bf8baf

RGB191, 139, 175

HSL318, 29%, 65%

HSV318, 27%, 75%

CMYK0%, 27%, 8%, 25%

Lab63.87, 25.56, -11.09

XYZ38.46, 32.64, 44.83

Decimal12553135

Web safe#cc9999

Pantone521 C

Shades of plum

#b478a2 #aa6494 #9b5585 #874b75 #744064 #613554 #4e2b43 #3a2032 #271622 #140b11

Tints of plum

#c595b6 #cba0bd #d0aac5 #d6b5cc #dcbfd3 #e2cada #e7d4e1 #eddfe9 #f3e9f0 #f9f3f7

Colors that go with plum

Complementary#8bbf9b Analogous#b58bbf Analogous#bf8b95 Triadic#afbf8b Triadic#8bafbf Split complementary#95bf8b Split complementary#8bbfb5

Plum in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 0, 27, 8, 25.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #bf8baf on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 27 8 25

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 29 11 31

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 #bf8baf straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #bf8baf; }
.text { color: #bf8baf; }
.border { border: 2px solid #bf8baf; }

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 #bf8baf against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #bf8baf 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 #bf8baf 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 #bf8baf 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 #bf8baf 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.