Blue violet

#883fd6

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 #883fd6, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#883fd6

RGB136, 63, 214

HSL269, 65%, 54%

HSV269, 71%, 84%

CMYK36%, 71%, 0%, 16%

Lab43.72, 58.92, -65.43

XYZ24.07, 13.64, 64.98

Decimal8929238

Web safe#9933cc

Pantone2665 C

Shades of blue violet

#7b2cd0 #6f28bc #6324a7 #571f93 #4b1b7f #3f176a #331256 #270e42 #1b0a2e #0f0519

Tints of blue violet

#9351da #9e62de #a974e1 #b486e5 #bf98e9 #caa9ed #d5bbf1 #e0cdf4 #ebdff8 #f6f0fc

Colors that go with blue violet

Complementary#8dd63f Analogous#3f42d6 Analogous#d43fd6 Triadic#d6883f Triadic#3fd688 Split complementary#d6d33f Split complementary#42d63f

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 36, 71, 0, 16.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #883fd6 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

36 71 0 16

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

37 69 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 #883fd6 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #883fd6; }
.text { color: #883fd6; }
.border { border: 2px solid #883fd6; }

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 #883fd6 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #883fd6 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 #883fd6 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 #883fd6 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 #883fd6 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.