Blue violet

#5f35cd

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

Blue violet is a mid purple with a confident cast. 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 #5f35cd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#5f35cd

RGB95, 53, 205

HSL257, 60%, 51%

HSV257, 74%, 80%

CMYK54%, 74%, 0%, 20%

Lab36.72, 54.54, -71.86

XYZ17.01, 9.39, 58.67

Decimal6239693

Web safe#6633cc

Pantone2736 C

Shades of blue violet

#562fbd #4e2aaa #452698 #3d2186 #351d74 #2c1861 #24144f #1c0f3d #130b2b #0b0619

Tints of blue violet

#6e48d2 #7d5bd6 #8c6ddb #9a80e0 #a993e4 #b8a6e9 #c7b8ee #d6cbf2 #e5def7 #f4f1fb

Colors that go with blue violet

Complementary#a3cd35 Analogous#3557cd Analogous#ab35cd Triadic#cd5f35 Triadic#35cd5f Split complementary#cdab35 Split complementary#57cd35

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 54, 74, 0, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #5f35cd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

54 74 0 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

54 72 4 26

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 read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Blue violet in css

Copy #5f35cd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #5f35cd; }
.text { color: #5f35cd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #5f35cd; }

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 #5f35cd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #5f35cd against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Blue violet on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #5f35cd 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 the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn blue violet into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #5f35cd 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 #5f35cd are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.