Medium purple

#a37dc9

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 soft. A mid purple this rich reads creative and a little premium. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Medium purple color values

Every conversion for #a37dc9, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a37dc9

RGB163, 125, 201

HSL270, 41%, 64%

HSV270, 38%, 79%

CMYK19%, 38%, 0%, 21%

Lab58.67, 29.51, -34.01

XYZ32.98, 26.67, 58.67

Decimal10714569

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone2715 C

Shades of medium purple

#9468c0 #8553b8 #7746a8 #683d93 #59347e #4a2c69 #3c2354 #2d1a3f #1e122a #0f0916

Tints of medium purple

#ab89ce #b494d3 #bca0d8 #c4acdd #cdb8e1 #d5c3e6 #ddcfeb #e5dbf0 #eee7f5 #f6f2fa

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#a3c97d Analogous#7d7dc9 Analogous#c97dc9 Triadic#c9a37d Triadic#7dc9a3 Split complementary#c9c97d Split complementary#7dc97d

Medium purple in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 19, 38, 0, 21.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a37dc9 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

19 38 0 21

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

21 39 4 27

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 #a37dc9 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a37dc9; }
.text { color: #a37dc9; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a37dc9; }

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 #a37dc9 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a37dc9 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 #a37dc9 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 #a37dc9 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.

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How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #a37dc9 is computed, not guessed. 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.