Medium purple

#a16cd7

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

Medium purple is a mid purple with a confident cast. 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 #a16cd7, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a16cd7

RGB161, 108, 215

HSL270, 57%, 63%

HSV270, 50%, 84%

CMYK25%, 50%, 0%, 16%

Lab55.29, 41.74, -47.26

XYZ32.33, 23.21, 67.07

Decimal10579159

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone2655 C

Shades of medium purple

#9255d1 #843eca #7532b9 #662ca2 #58268b #492074 #3b195d #2c1346 #1e0d2f #0f0718

Tints of medium purple

#aa79db #b287de #bb94e2 #c3a1e5 #ccaee9 #d4bced #ddc9f0 #e5d6f4 #eee4f8 #f6f1fb

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#a2d76c Analogous#6c6dd7 Analogous#d66cd7 Triadic#d7a16c Triadic#6cd7a1 Split complementary#d7d66c Split complementary#6dd76c

Medium purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 25, 50, 0, 16.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a16cd7 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

25 50 0 16

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

27 50 4 22

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 #a16cd7 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a16cd7; }
.text { color: #a16cd7; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a16cd7; }

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 #a16cd7 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a16cd7 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 #a16cd7 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 #a16cd7 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

The figures for #a16cd7 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.