Blue violet

#883cd7

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. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Blue violet color values

Every conversion for #883cd7, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#883cd7

RGB136, 60, 215

HSL269, 66%, 54%

HSV269, 72%, 84%

CMYK37%, 72%, 0%, 16%

Lab43.32, 60.5, -66.65

XYZ24.03, 13.37, 65.6

Decimal8928471

Web safe#9933cc

Pantone2665 C

Shades of blue violet

#7c2bd0 #7026bc #6422a7 #571e93 #4b1a7f #3f166b #331256 #270e42 #1b092e #0f0519

Tints of blue violet

#934edb #9e60de #a972e2 #b484e6 #bf96e9 #caa8ed #d5baf1 #e0ccf5 #ebdef8 #f6f0fc

Colors that go with blue violet

Complementary#8bd73c Analogous#3c3dd7 Analogous#d63cd7 Triadic#d7883c Triadic#3cd788 Split complementary#d7d63c Split complementary#3dd73c

Blue violet in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 37, 72, 0, 16.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #883cd7 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

37 72 0 16

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

38 70 4 22

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 #883cd7 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #883cd7; }
.text { color: #883cd7; }
.border { border: 2px solid #883cd7; }

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 #883cd7 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #883cd7 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 #883cd7 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 #883cd7 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

The figures for #883cd7 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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.