Violet

#dd83e3

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

Violet sits in the pink band, light and strong. Light pinks like this suit beauty, baby and lifestyle work. Deep greens and teals opposite it give contrast and warm neutrals keep it soft.

Violet color values

Every conversion for #dd83e3, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dd83e3

RGB221, 131, 227

HSL296, 63%, 70%

HSV296, 42%, 89%

CMYK3%, 42%, 0%, 11%

Lab67.39, 48.97, -34.5

XYZ51.8, 37.15, 77.11

Decimal14517219

Web safe#cc99cc

Pantone2572 C

Shades of violet

#d668dd #ce4ed7 #c733d1 #b02ab9 #97249f #7d1e84 #641869 #4b124e #310c34 #180619

Tints of violet

#e08ee5 #e399e8 #e6a4ea #e9afed #ecbaef #efc5f2 #f2d0f4 #f5dbf7 #f8e5f9 #fbf0fc

Colors that go with violet

Complementary#89e383 Analogous#ad83e3 Analogous#e383b9 Triadic#e3dd83 Triadic#83e3dd Split complementary#b9e383 Split complementary#83e3ad

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 3, 42, 0, 11.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dd83e3 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

3 42 0 11

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

7 43 4 17

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.

Violet in css

Copy #dd83e3 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dd83e3; }
.text { color: #dd83e3; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dd83e3; }

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 #dd83e3 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dd83e3 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 #dd83e3 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 #dd83e3 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

Every value on this page for #dd83e3 is computed, not guessed. 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.