Plum

#cd8fdb

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

Plum falls in the purple range, light and soft. Purples like this signal creativity and a premium feel. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Plum color values

Every conversion for #cd8fdb, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#cd8fdb

RGB205, 143, 219

HSL289, 51%, 71%

HSV289, 35%, 86%

CMYK6%, 35%, 0%, 14%

Lab67.83, 36.25, -29.54

XYZ47.79, 37.74, 71.78

Decimal13471707

Web safe#cc99cc

Pantone2572 C

Shades of plum

#c276d3 #b75dcb #ab44c3 #9838ae #823095 #6c287b #562062 #401849 #2a1030 #140717

Tints of plum

#d199de #d6a3e1 #daade4 #dfb6e8 #e3c0eb #e7caee #ecd4f1 #f0def4 #f5e8f7 #f9f1fb

Colors that go with plum

Complementary#9ddb8f Analogous#a78fdb Analogous#db8fc3 Triadic#dbcd8f Triadic#8fdbcd Split complementary#c3db8f Split complementary#8fdba7

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 6, 35, 0, 14.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #cd8fdb on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

6 35 0 14

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

10 36 4 20

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 #cd8fdb straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #cd8fdb; }
.text { color: #cd8fdb; }
.border { border: 2px solid #cd8fdb; }

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 #cd8fdb against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #cd8fdb 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 #cd8fdb 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 #cd8fdb 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

The figures for #cd8fdb come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.