Plum

#cc99b3

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

This is Plum, a soft pink at 329 degrees. Light pinks like this suit beauty, baby and lifestyle work. Deep greens and teals opposite it give contrast and warm neutrals keep it soft.

Plum color values

Every conversion for #cc99b3, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#cc99b3

RGB204, 153, 179

HSL329, 33%, 70%

HSV329, 25%, 80%

CMYK0%, 25%, 12%, 20%

Lab68.66, 23.13, -6.05

XYZ44.43, 38.87, 47.81

Decimal13408691

Web safe#cc99cc

Pantone680 C

Shades of plum

#c183a3 #b66d93 #ab5882 #974b72 #814162 #6b3651 #562b41 #402030 #2a1520 #140a0f

Tints of plum

#d1a2ba #d5abc0 #dab4c7 #debdce #e3c6d5 #e7cfdb #ecd8e2 #f0e1e9 #f5eaef #f9f3f6

Colors that go with plum

Complementary#99ccb2 Analogous#cb99cc Analogous#cc999a Triadic#b3cc99 Triadic#99b3cc Split complementary#9acc99 Split complementary#99cccb

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 0, 25, 12, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #cc99b3 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 25 12 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 27 15 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 #cc99b3 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #cc99b3; }
.text { color: #cc99b3; }
.border { border: 2px solid #cc99b3; }

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 #cc99b3 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #cc99b3 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 #cc99b3 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 #cc99b3 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 #cc99b3 are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.