Violet

#EE82EE

Named after the violet flower, which in turn lent its name to 'ultraviolet' for the invisible wavelengths just beyond it — spectral violet is a genuinely different phenomenon from 'purple,' since violet corresponds to a real single wavelength near the edge of human vision while purple is a non-spectral mixture the brain constructs from red and blue signals together.

Every value on this page is computed at build time from the hex code above using ChromaWell's shared, unit-tested color-core library — the same conversion, contrast, and nearest-name math used across every color page on this site, so a value here matches the same color looked up anywhere else on ChromaWell.

The conversions block gives you the same color in seven common formats (hex, RGB, HSL, HSV, CMYK, Lab, and OKLCH) so you can copy whichever your codebase or design tool expects. The contrast block applies the WCAG 2.x relative-luminance formula against several common backgrounds and reports whether text in this color would pass AA or AAA at normal and large text sizes. Shades/tints step the lightness up and down at a fixed hue and saturation; harmonies rotate the hue around the color wheel to surface complementary, analogous, triadic, and split-complementary partners; and nearest named colors ranks the closest matches from our full 1,094-color dataset by CIE76 Delta-E distance in Lab space, a perceptual distance metric rather than a raw RGB difference.

Conversions

HEX: #EE82EE
RGB: rgb(238, 130, 238)
HSL: hsl(300, 76.1%, 72.2%)
HSV: hsv(300, 45.4%, 93.3%)
CMYK: cmyk(0, 45.4, 0, 6.7)
Lab: lab(69.7, 56.36, -36.81)
OKLCH: oklch(0.7619 0.1861 327.2)

WCAG contrast

On white: 2.32:1 — normal text FAIL, large text FAIL
On black: 9.06:1 — normal text AAA, large text AAA
On pure white: 2.32:1 — normal text FAIL, large text FAIL
On pure black: 9.06:1 — normal text AAA, large text AAA
On light gray (#F3F4F6): 2.11:1 — normal text FAIL, large text FAIL
On dark slate (#1F2937): 6.34:1 — normal text AA, large text AAA

Ratios computed from WCAG 2.x relative luminance; AA needs 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text (18pt+ or 14pt+ bold), AAA needs 7:1 and 4.5:1 respectively.

Shades & tints

#BE1ABE

#E53FE5

#EE82EE

#F7C6F7

#FFFFFF

Lightness stepped ±15% and ±30% in HSL space at constant hue and saturation (300°, 76.1%) — a shade darkens toward black, a tint lightens toward white.

Color harmonies

Hue-wheel relationships computed at this color's exact hue (300°), holding saturation and lightness constant.

Complementary

#82EE82

rgb(130, 238, 130)

Analogous −30°

#B882EE

rgb(184, 130, 238)

Analogous +30°

#EE82B8

rgb(238, 130, 184)

Triadic 120°

#EEEE82

rgb(238, 238, 130)

Triadic 240°

#82EEEE

rgb(130, 238, 238)

Split-complementary −150°

#82EEB8

rgb(130, 238, 184)

Split-complementary +150°

#B8EE82

rgb(184, 238, 130)

Nearest named colors

Violet (ΔE 0.0)
Orchid (ΔE 7.4)
MediumOrchid (ΔE 19.4)
HotPink (ΔE 27.6)
MediumPurple (ΔE 27.9)

Ranked by CIE76 Delta-E distance in Lab space — the lower the number, the closer the perceptual match to this exact color.

Perceptual profile

Hue 300° places this color in the transitional range of the wheel. At 76.1% saturation it reads as highly saturated/vivid, and at 72.2% lightness it sits light. In OKLCH — the newer, perceptually uniform color space — this color's lightness is 0.7619, chroma 0.1861, hue 327.2°, which is a more accurate predictor of how "bright" this color will look next to others than HSL lightness alone.

Use in CSS

This is a transitional hue at 76.1% saturation and 72.2% lightness. Drop it into a stylesheet as a custom property:

:root {
  --color-ee82ee: #EE82EE;
}
.el {
  color: var(--color-ee82ee);
}

Part of the open CSS/X11 named-color set — see methodology.