Plum

#cb91bd

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

Plum sits in the pink band, mid and soft. 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 #cb91bd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#cb91bd

RGB203, 145, 189

HSL314, 36%, 68%

HSV314, 29%, 80%

CMYK0%, 29%, 7%, 20%

Lab66.99, 28.89, -14.13

XYZ43.94, 36.62, 52.9

Decimal13341117

Web safe#cc99cc

Pantone2563 C

Shades of plum

#c17bb0 #b766a3 #ac5196 #964783 #813d70 #6b335d #55284b #401e38 #2a1425 #150a12

Tints of plum

#d09bc3 #d4a5c9 #d9aecf #deb8d4 #e2c2da #e7cce0 #ebd6e6 #f0dfec #f5e9f2 #f9f3f8

Colors that go with plum

Complementary#91cb9f Analogous#bc91cb Analogous#cb91a0 Triadic#bdcb91 Triadic#91bdcb Split complementary#a0cb91 Split complementary#91cbbc

Plum in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 29, 7, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #cb91bd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 29 7 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 31 10 26

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 #cb91bd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #cb91bd; }
.text { color: #cb91bd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #cb91bd; }

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 #cb91bd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #cb91bd 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 #cb91bd 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 #cb91bd 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 #cb91bd are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.