Plum

#e09ffa

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 vivid. 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 #e09ffa, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e09ffa

RGB224, 159, 250

HSL283, 90%, 80%

HSV283, 36%, 98%

CMYK10%, 36%, 0%, 2%

Lab74.54, 39.61, -35.97

XYZ60.39, 47.55, 96.44

Decimal14721018

Web safe#cc99ff

Pantone251 C

Shades of plum

#d47bf8 #c957f6 #bd33f4 #b20ff3 #980bd1 #7e09ad #640789 #4a0565 #2f0341 #15021d

Tints of plum

#e3a7fa #e5affb #e8b7fb #eabffc #edc7fc #efcefc #f2d6fd #f4defd #f7e6fe #faeefe

Colors that go with plum

Complementary#b9fa9f Analogous#b39ffa Analogous#fa9fe6 Triadic#fae09f Triadic#9ffae0 Split complementary#e7fa9f Split complementary#9ffab2

Plum in print

The saturation is high, which is where rgb and cmyk drift apart, so a printed proof is worth it. The cmyk build is 10, 36, 0, 2.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e09ffa on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

10 36 0 2

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

13 37 4 8

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

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 #e09ffa straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e09ffa; }
.text { color: #e09ffa; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e09ffa; }

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 #e09ffa against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e09ffa 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 #e09ffa 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 #e09ffa 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 #e09ffa are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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 value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.