Purple

#541b4e

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

This is Purple, a soft pink at 306 degrees. Pinks like this read soft and contemporary. It works with sage and olive for balance, or with cream for a gentle palette.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #541b4e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#541b4e

RGB84, 27, 78

HSL306, 51%, 22%

HSV306, 68%, 33%

CMYK0%, 68%, 7%, 67%

Lab20.9, 33.44, -18.52

XYZ5.42, 3.22, 7.54

Decimal5512014

Web safe#663366

Pantone261 C

Shades of purple

#4e1948 #481743 #42153d #3c1337 #361132 #2f0f2c #290d26 #230b21 #1d091b #170716

Tints of purple

#712469 #8e2e84 #ab379e #c344b6 #cc61c1 #d67ecc #df9bd8 #e8b8e3 #f1d5ee #fbf1fa

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#1b5421 Analogous#3d1b54 Analogous#541b31 Triadic#4e541b Triadic#1b4e54 Split complementary#32541b Split complementary#1b543d

Purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 68, 7, 67.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #541b4e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 68 7 67

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 67 10 73

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 #541b4e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #541b4e; }
.text { color: #541b4e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #541b4e; }

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 #541b4e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #541b4e 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 #541b4e 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 #541b4e 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 #541b4e are worked out. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.