Violet

#ec80e7

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. It works with sage and olive for balance, or with cream for a gentle palette.

Violet color values

Every conversion for #ec80e7, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ec80e7

RGB236, 128, 231

HSL303, 74%, 71%

HSV303, 46%, 93%

CMYK0%, 46%, 2%, 7%

Lab68.78, 55.56, -34.41

XYZ56.74, 39.04, 80.15

Decimal15499495

Web safe#ff99ff

Pantone245 C

Shades of violet

#e863e2 #e346dc #df29d7 #c91ec1 #ac1aa5 #8f1589 #72116d #550d51 #380835 #1b041a

Tints of violet

#ee8be9 #ef96eb #f1a1ed #f3adef #f4b8f2 #f6c3f4 #f8cef6 #f9d9f8 #fbe4fa #fdeffc

Colors that go with violet

Complementary#80ec85 Analogous#bb80ec Analogous#ec80b1 Triadic#e7ec80 Triadic#80e7ec Split complementary#b1ec80 Split complementary#80ecbb

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 0, 46, 2, 7.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ec80e7 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 46 2 7

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 46 6 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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Violet in css

Copy #ec80e7 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ec80e7; }
.text { color: #ec80e7; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ec80e7; }

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 #ec80e7 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ec80e7 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Violet on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ec80e7 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn violet into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ec80e7 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 #ec80e7 are worked out. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.