Plum

#c894ed

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

This is Plum, a strong purple at 275 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 #c894ed, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#c894ed

RGB200, 148, 237

HSL275, 71%, 75%

HSV275, 38%, 93%

CMYK16%, 38%, 0%, 7%

Lab69.16, 35.72, -37.42

XYZ49.7, 39.57, 85.14

Decimal13145325

Web safe#cc99ff

Pantone2645 C

Shades of plum

#b876e8 #a957e3 #9939de #8823d0 #741eb2 #611994 #4d1475 #390f57 #250a39 #11041a

Tints of plum

#cd9def #d1a6f0 #d6b0f2 #dbb9f3 #e0c2f5 #e4cbf6 #e9d4f8 #eeddf9 #f2e7fb #f7f0fc

Colors that go with plum

Complementary#b9ed94 Analogous#9c94ed Analogous#ed94e5 Triadic#edc894 Triadic#94edc8 Split complementary#e6ed94 Split complementary#94ed9b

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 16, 38, 0, 7.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #c894ed on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

16 38 0 7

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

19 39 4 13

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 #c894ed straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #c894ed; }
.text { color: #c894ed; }
.border { border: 2px solid #c894ed; }

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 #c894ed against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #c894ed 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 #c894ed 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 #c894ed 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

Every value on this page for #c894ed is computed, not guessed. 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.