Purple

#aea4b9

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

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.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #aea4b9, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#aea4b9

RGB174, 164, 185

HSL269, 13%, 68%

HSV269, 11%, 73%

CMYK6%, 11%, 0%, 27%

Lab68.79, 7.62, -9.49

XYZ39.49, 39.05, 51.36

Decimal11445433

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone5295 C

Shades of purple

#9e92ab #8e809d #7e6e8f #6e607d #5e536b #4e4559 #3f3747 #2f2935 #1f1b23 #0f0d11

Tints of purple

#b5acbf #bcb4c5 #c4bccc #cbc4d2 #d2ccd8 #d9d5de #e0dde5 #e8e5eb #efedf1 #f6f5f7

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#afb9a4 Analogous#a4a5b9 Analogous#b8a4b9 Triadic#b9aea4 Triadic#a4b9ae Split complementary#b9b9a4 Split complementary#a5b9a4

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 6, 11, 0, 27.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #aea4b9 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

6 11 0 27

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

10 14 4 33

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 #aea4b9 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #aea4b9; }
.text { color: #aea4b9; }
.border { border: 2px solid #aea4b9; }

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 #aea4b9 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #aea4b9 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 #aea4b9 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 #aea4b9 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 #aea4b9 are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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.