Light purple

#c8b4e7

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

Light purple falls in the purple range, light and soft. Purples like this signal creativity and a premium feel. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Light purple color values

Every conversion for #c8b4e7, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#c8b4e7

RGB200, 180, 231

HSL264, 52%, 81%

HSV264, 22%, 91%

CMYK13%, 22%, 0%, 9%

Lab76.49, 16.88, -22.87

XYZ54.56, 50.69, 82.51

Decimal13153511

Web safe#ccccff

Pantone264 C

Shades of light purple

#b397de #9e7ad5 #895ecb #7341c2 #6236a7 #512c8a #40236e #2f1a51 #1f1134 #0e0717

Tints of light purple

#cdbae9 #d1c0eb #d6c6ed #dacdef #dfd3f1 #e3d9f3 #e8dff5 #ece5f7 #f1ebf9 #f5f1fb

Colors that go with light purple

Complementary#d3e7b4 Analogous#b4bae7 Analogous#e1b4e7 Triadic#e7c8b4 Triadic#b4e7c8 Split complementary#e7e1b4 Split complementary#bae7b4

Light purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 13, 22, 0, 9.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #c8b4e7 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

13 22 0 9

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

16 24 4 15

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.

Light purple in css

Copy #c8b4e7 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #c8b4e7; }
.text { color: #c8b4e7; }
.border { border: 2px solid #c8b4e7; }

How light purple looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Light purple and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #c8b4e7 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #c8b4e7 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Light purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #c8b4e7 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around light purple? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn light purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #c8b4e7 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 light purple, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #c8b4e7 are worked out. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.