Blue Violet #8A2BE2

About this color

#8A2BE2 is a medium-dark, vivid purple. In OKLCH its lightness is 53%, its chroma 0.250 and its hue 301°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Blue Violet. White text reads best on it, at 5.95:1.

Colors that go with Blue Violet

Matches found by rotating Blue Violet around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Blue Violet

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Blue Violet, closest first.

• Chrome Drive

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Blue Violet, with their ΔE distance.

• Dark Violet #9400D3 ΔE 0.043
• Vivid Purple #9900FA ΔE 0.047
• Dark Orchid #9932CC ΔE 0.049
• Burple #6832E3 ΔE 0.064
• Purpley #8756E4 ΔE 0.069
• Vibrant Purple #AD03DE ΔE 0.072
• Electric Purple #AA23FF ΔE 0.072
• Bright Violet #AD0AFD ΔE 0.076

More about Blue Violet

• Shades of purple
• What purple means

How to make Blue Violet

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 2 parts purple
• 1 part white

Recipe result: #944DB4, a difference of ΔE 0.097 from Blue Violet. Blue Violet is more vivid than these paints can mix, so start from a ready-made purple paint and adjust it.

What colors make purple? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Blue Violet in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Blue Violet

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 600.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F7F3FE

   oklch(97% 0.015 302.6)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EDE5FD

   oklch(93.5% 0.033 300.9)

3. Step 200

   200

   #E0D0FD

   oklch(88.5% 0.063 301.3)

4. Step 300

   300

   #CDAFFE

   oklch(80.8% 0.113 301.3)

5. Step 400

   400

   #B581FD

   oklch(70.7% 0.18 301.3)

6. Step 500

   500

   #A459FB

   oklch(63% 0.231 301.3)

7. Step 600

   600 (this color)

   #8A2BE2

   oklch(53.4% 0.25 301.4)

8. Step 700

   700

   #7B24CB

   oklch(49.1% 0.232 301.3)

9. Step 800

   800

   #6422A4

   oklch(42.7% 0.192 301.4)

10. Step 900

    900

    #512482

    oklch(37.7% 0.15 301.4)

11. Step 950

    950

    #2F174C

    oklch(27% 0.094 301.1)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Blue Violet with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.