Violet

#fa8ddc

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

Violet is a light pink, open and easy to pair. 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 #fa8ddc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#fa8ddc

RGB250, 141, 220

HSL317, 92%, 77%

HSV317, 44%, 98%

CMYK0%, 44%, 12%, 2%

Lab72.59, 51.47, -22.34

XYZ61.87, 44.54, 73.05

Decimal16420316

Web safe#ff99cc

Pantone237 C

Shades of violet

#f86ad1 #f748c7 #f525bc #ec0aae #ca0995 #a7077b #850662 #620448 #40032f #1d0116

Tints of violet

#fa97df #fba0e2 #fbaae5 #fcb4e8 #fcbdeb #fdc7ee #fdd1f1 #fddbf4 #fee4f7 #feeefa

Colors that go with violet

Complementary#8dfaab Analogous#e28dfa Analogous#fa8da5 Triadic#dcfa8d Triadic#8ddcfa Split complementary#a6fa8d Split complementary#8dfae2

Violet in print

The saturation is high, which is where rgb and cmyk drift apart, so a printed proof is worth it. The cmyk build is 0, 44, 12, 2.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #fa8ddc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 44 12 2

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 44 15 8

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 #fa8ddc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #fa8ddc; }
.text { color: #fa8ddc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #fa8ddc; }

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 #fa8ddc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #fa8ddc 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 #fa8ddc 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 #fa8ddc 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 #fa8ddc come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.