Medium purple

#856ea4

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

Medium purple falls in the purple range, mid and muted. A mid purple this rich reads creative and a little premium. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Medium purple color values

Every conversion for #856ea4, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#856ea4

RGB133, 110, 164

HSL266, 23%, 54%

HSV266, 33%, 64%

CMYK19%, 33%, 0%, 36%

Lab50.47, 20.23, -25.7

XYZ21.95, 18.82, 37.6

Decimal8744612

Web safe#996699

Pantone272 C

Shades of medium purple

#796099 #6d578a #614d7b #55446d #4a3b5e #3e314f #322840 #261f31 #1b1522 #0f0c13

Tints of medium purple

#907bac #9c89b5 #a796bd #b2a4c6 #bdb1ce #c9bed6 #d4ccdf #dfd9e7 #eae7f0 #f6f4f8

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#8da46e Analogous#6e72a4 Analogous#a06ea4 Triadic#a4856e Triadic#6ea485 Split complementary#a4a06e Split complementary#72a46e

Medium purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 19, 33, 0, 36.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #856ea4 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

19 33 0 36

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

21 34 4 42

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.

Medium purple in css

Copy #856ea4 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #856ea4; }
.text { color: #856ea4; }
.border { border: 2px solid #856ea4; }

How medium purple looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Medium purple and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #856ea4 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #856ea4 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Medium purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #856ea4 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn medium purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #856ea4 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 medium purple, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #856ea4 are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.