Purple

#aca0bc

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

This is Purple, a muted purple at 266 degrees. 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.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #aca0bc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#aca0bc

RGB172, 160, 188

HSL266, 17%, 68%

HSV266, 15%, 74%

CMYK9%, 15%, 0%, 26%

Lab67.68, 9.77, -12.83

XYZ38.66, 37.54, 52.79

Decimal11313340

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone666 C

Shades of purple

#9c8daf #8b7ba2 #7b6994 #6c5b82 #5c4e6f #4d415c #3d344a #2e2737 #1e1a25 #0f0d12

Tints of purple

#b3a8c2 #bbb1c8 #c2b9ce #cac2d4 #d1cada #d8d3e0 #e0dbe6 #e7e4ec #eeecf2 #f6f5f8

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#b0bca0 Analogous#a0a2bc Analogous#baa0bc Triadic#bcaca0 Triadic#a0bcac Split complementary#bcbaa0 Split complementary#a2bca0

Purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 9, 15, 0, 26.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #aca0bc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

9 15 0 26

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

12 18 4 32

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 #aca0bc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #aca0bc; }
.text { color: #aca0bc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #aca0bc; }

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 #aca0bc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #aca0bc 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 #aca0bc 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 #aca0bc 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

Here is how the numbers for #aca0bc are worked out. 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.