Plum

#f59fcd

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

Plum is a light pink, soft and easy to pair. 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 #f59fcd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#f59fcd

RGB245, 159, 205

HSL328, 81%, 79%

HSV328, 35%, 96%

CMYK0%, 35%, 16%, 4%

Lab75.21, 38.31, -10.2

XYZ61.07, 48.62, 63.92

Decimal16097229

Web safe#ff99cc

Pantone230 C

Shades of plum

#f17dbb #ee5baa #ea3a98 #e71887 #c51473 #a3115f #810d4b #5f0a38 #3e0624 #1c0310

Tints of plum

#f6a7d1 #f7afd5 #f7b7d9 #f8bfde #f9c7e2 #facfe6 #fbd7ea #fcdfee #fce7f2 #fdeff7

Colors that go with plum

Complementary#9ff5c7 Analogous#f29ff5 Analogous#f59fa2 Triadic#cdf59f Triadic#9fcdf5 Split complementary#a2f59f Split complementary#9ff5f2

Plum in print

A color this vivid sometimes sits just outside cmyk gamut, so expect a small dip in punch on paper. The cmyk build is 0, 35, 16, 4.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #f59fcd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 35 16 4

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 36 19 10

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 #f59fcd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #f59fcd; }
.text { color: #f59fcd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #f59fcd; }

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 #f59fcd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #f59fcd 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 #f59fcd 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 #f59fcd 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 #f59fcd 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.