Medium purple

#ae80da

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 balanced cast. 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 #ae80da, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ae80da

RGB174, 128, 218

HSL271, 55%, 68%

HSV271, 41%, 85%

CMYK20%, 41%, 0%, 15%

Lab61.22, 34.95, -39.5

XYZ37.83, 29.5, 70.03

Decimal11436250

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone2715 C

Shades of medium purple

#9e68d3 #8f4fcc #7f39c3 #6f32aa #5f2a92 #4f2379 #3f1c61 #2f1549 #1f0e30 #0f0718

Tints of medium purple

#b58bdd #bc97e1 #c4a2e4 #cbade7 #d2b9ea #d9c4ee #e1cff1 #e8dbf4 #efe6f8 #f6f1fb

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#acda80 Analogous#8180da Analogous#da80d9 Triadic#daae80 Triadic#80daae Split complementary#d9da80 Split complementary#80da81

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 20, 41, 0, 15.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ae80da on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

20 41 0 15

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

22 42 4 21

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 #ae80da straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ae80da; }
.text { color: #ae80da; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ae80da; }

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 #ae80da against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ae80da 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 #ae80da 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 #ae80da 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 #ae80da is computed, not guessed. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.