Plum

#e6a8c8

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

This is Plum, a strong pink at 329 degrees. Light pinks like this suit beauty, baby and lifestyle work. It works with sage and olive for balance, or with cream for a gentle palette.

Plum color values

Every conversion for #e6a8c8, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e6a8c8

RGB230, 168, 200

HSL329, 55%, 78%

HSV329, 27%, 90%

CMYK0%, 27%, 13%, 10%

Lab75.45, 27.61, -7.29

XYZ57.06, 49.0, 61.09

Decimal15116488

Web safe#ff99cc

Pantone515 C

Shades of plum

#de8bb6 #d66fa4 #cd5292 #c33880 #a6306d #8a285a #6d1f48 #511735 #340f22 #180710

Tints of plum

#e8afcd #eab7d1 #ecbed6 #eec5da #f1cddf #f3d4e4 #f5dbe8 #f7e3ed #f9eaf2 #fbf1f6

Colors that go with plum

Complementary#a8e6c6 Analogous#e5a8e6 Analogous#e6a8a9 Triadic#c8e6a8 Triadic#a8c8e6 Split complementary#a9e6a8 Split complementary#a8e6e5

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, 27, 13, 10.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e6a8c8 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 27 13 10

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 29 16 16

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Plum in css

Copy #e6a8c8 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e6a8c8; }
.text { color: #e6a8c8; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e6a8c8; }

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 #e6a8c8 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e6a8c8 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Plum on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #e6a8c8 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn plum into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #e6a8c8 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 #e6a8c8 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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 figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.