Plum

#d5a4e7

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

Plum is a light purple with a soft cast. Purples like this signal creativity and a premium feel. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Plum color values

Every conversion for #d5a4e7, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#d5a4e7

RGB213, 164, 231

HSL284, 58%, 77%

HSV284, 29%, 91%

CMYK8%, 29%, 0%, 9%

Lab73.85, 29.74, -26.8

XYZ55.14, 46.47, 81.66

Decimal14001383

Web safe#cc99ff

Pantone529 C

Shades of plum

#c887df #ba6ad8 #ad4dd0 #9e34c5 #872ca8 #70258c #591d6f #421652 #2b0e35 #130618

Tints of plum

#d9ace9 #dcb3eb #e0bbed #e3c3ef #e7caf1 #ead2f3 #eedaf5 #f1e2f7 #f5e9f9 #f8f1fb

Colors that go with plum

Complementary#b6e7a4 Analogous#b3a4e7 Analogous#e7a4d7 Triadic#e7d5a4 Triadic#a4e7d5 Split complementary#d7e7a4 Split complementary#a4e7b4

Plum in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 8, 29, 0, 9.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #d5a4e7 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

8 29 0 9

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

11 31 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.

Plum in css

Copy #d5a4e7 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #d5a4e7; }
.text { color: #d5a4e7; }
.border { border: 2px solid #d5a4e7; }

How plum looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Plum and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #d5a4e7 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #d5a4e7 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Plum on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #d5a4e7 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn plum into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #d5a4e7 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 plum, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #d5a4e7 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.