Violet

#e791e9

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

Violet is a light pink, soft and easy to pair. 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 #e791e9, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e791e9

RGB231, 145, 233

HSL299, 67%, 74%

HSV299, 38%, 91%

CMYK1%, 38%, 0%, 9%

Lab71.64, 45.83, -31.13

XYZ57.79, 43.12, 82.37

Decimal15176169

Web safe#ff99ff

Pantone251 C

Shades of violet

#e174e3 #da57dd #d43ad8 #c428c7 #a722aa #8b1c8d #6e1670 #521153 #350b36 #19051a

Tints of violet

#e99beb #eba4ed #edaeef #efb7f1 #f1c1f3 #f3caf4 #f6d4f6 #f8ddf8 #fae7fa #fcf0fc

Colors that go with violet

Complementary#93e991 Analogous#bb91e9 Analogous#e991bf Triadic#e9e791 Triadic#91e9e7 Split complementary#bfe991 Split complementary#91e9bb

Violet in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 1, 38, 0, 9.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e791e9 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

1 38 0 9

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

5 39 4 15

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 #e791e9 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e791e9; }
.text { color: #e791e9; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e791e9; }

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 #e791e9 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e791e9 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 #e791e9 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 #e791e9 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

Here is how the numbers for #e791e9 are worked out. 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.