Blue violet

#8a50e4

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 grounded 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 #8a50e4, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8a50e4

RGB138, 80, 228

HSL264, 73%, 60%

HSV264, 65%, 89%

CMYK39%, 65%, 0%, 11%

Lab47.93, 54.54, -66.55

XYZ27.35, 16.74, 75.19

Decimal9064676

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone2665 C

Shades of blue violet

#7a38e0 #6a22db #5f1ec3 #531aab #471793 #3c137b #300f63 #240c4b #190833 #0d041b

Tints of blue violet

#9560e6 #9f70e9 #aa80eb #b590ee #bfa0f0 #cab0f3 #d5c0f5 #dfd0f8 #eae0fa #f5f0fd

Colors that go with blue violet

Complementary#aae450 Analogous#5060e4 Analogous#d450e4 Triadic#e48a50 Triadic#50e48a Split complementary#e4d450 Split complementary#60e450

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 39, 65, 0, 11.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8a50e4 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

39 65 0 11

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

40 64 4 17

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

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 #8a50e4 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8a50e4; }
.text { color: #8a50e4; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8a50e4; }

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 #8a50e4 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8a50e4 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 #8a50e4 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 #8a50e4 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 #8a50e4 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.