Blue violet

#8d2bd4

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

Blue violet falls in the purple range, mid and strong. 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.

Blue violet color values

Every conversion for #8d2bd4, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8d2bd4

RGB141, 43, 212

HSL275, 66%, 50%

HSV275, 80%, 83%

CMYK33%, 80%, 0%, 17%

Lab41.44, 67.25, -67.95

XYZ23.73, 12.14, 63.38

Decimal9251796

Web safe#9933cc

Pantone2665 C

Shades of blue violet

#8127c1 #7423af #68209c #5b1c89 #4f1877 #431464 #361151 #2a0d3f #1d092c #110519

Tints of blue violet

#983fd8 #a252dc #ad66e0 #b77ae4 #c28ee8 #cda1ec #d7b5f0 #e2c9f4 #ecdcf8 #f7f0fc

Colors that go with blue violet

Complementary#72d42b Analogous#382bd4 Analogous#d42bc6 Triadic#d48d2b Triadic#2bd48d Split complementary#c6d42b Split complementary#2bd439

Blue violet in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 33, 80, 0, 17.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8d2bd4 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

33 80 0 17

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

34 78 4 23

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.

Blue violet in css

Copy #8d2bd4 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8d2bd4; }
.text { color: #8d2bd4; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8d2bd4; }

How blue violet looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Blue violet and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #8d2bd4 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8d2bd4 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Blue violet on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #8d2bd4 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn blue violet into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #8d2bd4 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 blue violet, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #8d2bd4 are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.