Periwinkle #8E82FE

About this color

#8E82FE is a medium-light, vivid purple. In OKLCH its lightness is 67%, its chroma 0.178 and its hue 285°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Periwinkle. Black text reads best on it, at 6.77:1.

Colors that go with Periwinkle

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

Color palettes with Periwinkle

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

• Mixtape Rink
• Synth Boot

Similar named colors

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

• Lavender Blue #8B88F8 ΔE 0.018
• Perrywinkle #8F8CE7 ΔE 0.046
• Cornflower #6A79F7 ΔE 0.058
• Periwinkle Blue #8F99FB ΔE 0.058
• Medium Purple #9370DB ΔE 0.062
• Soft Blue #6488EA ΔE 0.064
• Light Urple #B36FF6 ΔE 0.068
• Medium Slate Blue #7B68EE ΔE 0.072

More about Periwinkle

• Shades of purple
• What purple means

How to make Periwinkle

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
• 2 parts white
• 1 part blue

Recipe result: #9275CF, a difference of ΔE 0.072 from Periwinkle. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make purple? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Periwinkle 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 Periwinkle

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 400.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F4F4FF

   oklch(97% 0.015 286.1)

2. Step 100

   100

   #E7E7FF

   oklch(93.5% 0.032 285.8)

3. Step 200

   200

   #D4D4FF

   oklch(88.4% 0.059 285.1)

4. Step 300

   300

   #B9B8FF

   oklch(80.9% 0.1 284.6)

5. Step 400

   400 (this color)

   #8E82FE

   oklch(67.5% 0.178 285)

6. Step 500

   500

   #816EFF

   oklch(63.1% 0.207 284.7)

7. Step 600

   600

   #6E48FA

   oklch(55.6% 0.247 284.8)

8. Step 700

   700

   #5D37DA

   oklch(49.1% 0.23 284.8)

9. Step 800

   800

   #4C30B0

   oklch(42.8% 0.19 285.1)

10. Step 900

    900

    #3E2D8B

    oklch(37.7% 0.148 285.1)

11. Step 950

    950

    #241C51

    oklch(27% 0.093 285.2)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Periwinkle 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.