Violet

#ca8bed

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

This is Violet, a strong purple at 279 degrees. Purples like this signal creativity and a premium feel. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Violet color values

Every conversion for #ca8bed, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ca8bed

RGB202, 139, 237

HSL279, 73%, 74%

HSV279, 41%, 93%

CMYK15%, 41%, 0%, 7%

Lab67.38, 41.19, -40.19

XYZ48.88, 37.14, 84.71

Decimal13274093

Web safe#cc99ff

Pantone2572 C

Shades of violet

#bc6de8 #af4fe4 #a131df #9020ce #7b1bb0 #661792 #511274 #3c0d56 #270938 #12041a

Tints of violet

#cf95ef #d39ff0 #d8a9f2 #dcb3f3 #e1bdf5 #e6c7f6 #ead1f8 #efdbf9 #f3e5fb #f8f0fd

Colors that go with violet

Complementary#aeed8b Analogous#998bed Analogous#ed8bdf Triadic#edca8b Triadic#8bedca Split complementary#dfed8b Split complementary#8bed99

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 15, 41, 0, 7.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ca8bed on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

15 41 0 7

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

18 42 4 13

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

Violet in css

Copy #ca8bed straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ca8bed; }
.text { color: #ca8bed; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ca8bed; }

How violet looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Violet and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #ca8bed against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ca8bed against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Violet on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ca8bed sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around 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 violet into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ca8bed 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 violet, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #ca8bed come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.