Purple

#551a5c

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

Purple is a deep pink, serious and easy to pair. Pinks like this read soft and contemporary. Deep greens and teals opposite it give contrast and warm neutrals keep it soft.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #551a5c, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#551a5c

RGB85, 26, 92

HSL294, 56%, 23%

HSV294, 72%, 36%

CMYK8%, 72%, 0%, 64%

Lab21.74, 36.95, -26.57

XYZ6.05, 3.44, 10.47

Decimal5577308

Web safe#663366

Pantone2623 C

Shades of purple

#4f1855 #48164e #421448 #3c1241 #36103a #2f0e33 #290d2c #230b25 #1c091f #160718

Tints of purple

#702279 #8b2a96 #a633b4 #bb42ca #c65fd2 #d07cda #db9ae2 #e5b7eb #f0d4f3 #faf1fb

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#215c1a Analogous#341a5c Analogous#5c1a42 Triadic#5c551a Triadic#1a5c55 Split complementary#425c1a Split complementary#1a5c34

Purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 8, 72, 0, 64.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #551a5c on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

8 72 0 64

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

11 70 4 70

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.

Purple in css

Copy #551a5c straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #551a5c; }
.text { color: #551a5c; }
.border { border: 2px solid #551a5c; }

How purple looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Purple and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #551a5c against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #551a5c against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #551a5c sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around purple? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #551a5c 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 purple, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #551a5c is computed, not guessed. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.