Light Violet Color Codes

Light Violet is a light, vivid violet with the hex code #D6B4FC, RGB values of 214, 180, 252 and an HSL value of hsl(268, 92%, 85%).

HEX	#D6B4FC
RGB	214, 180, 252
HSL	hsl(268, 92%, 85%)
HSV	268°, 29%, 99%
CMYK	15%, 29%, 0%, 1%
LAB	78.44, 25.66, -31.08
CIELCHuv	78.44, 55.46, 283.86°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 264 C ΔE 13.0 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: plum ΔE 12.5

Community source color-name-list, community color-name index

Light Violet Color Hex Code

The Light Violet color hex code is #D6B4FC. Those six digits are three pairs, D6 for red, B4 for green and FC for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#D6B4FC

Light Violet Color RGB Code

The Light Violet RGB code is rgb(214, 180, 252). Blue carries the most light at 252 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(214, 180, 252)

Light Violet Color HSV Code

The Light Violet HSV code is 268°, 29%, 99%. Read it as a hue of 268 degrees, 29% saturation and 99% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

268°, 29%, 99%

Light Violet Color CIELChuv Code

The Light Violet CIELCHuv code is 78.44, 55.46, 283.86°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 78 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 55 is how far it sits from grey.

78.44, 55.46, 283.86°

Tonal scale

What are Light Violet Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

Open in the shades & tints generator →

Palettes

What are Light Violet Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #D6B4FC. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

The opposite hue is #DAFCB4, a very light, vivid yellow-green. Complements carry the strongest contrast of any two-color scheme, so this pair suits a call to action better than a background. Both are saturated, so give the complement much less area than the base or the two will fight.

Analogous

Its two neighbours are #B4B6FC and #FAB4FC. Because they overlap heavily in hue, nothing in the group competes, and the eye reads the whole set as a single color with variation.

Triadic

#FCD6B4 and #B4FCD6 complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #FCFAB4 and #B6FCB4. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #DAFCB4, and #FCB4B6 with #B4FCFA. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat the darkest of the four as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

1.78:1

1.78

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Fails	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Fails	Fails
UI component needs 3:1	Fails	n/a

Black background

11.79:1

11.79

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Passes
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

At 1.78:1 against white, Light Violet is a fill color rather than a text color. Use it for surfaces, borders and large display type, and set the copy in ink. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 11.79:1. It is a highly saturated color, so it will dominate anything it sits beside. Give it space rather than surrounding it with other strong colors.

Check Light Violet against another color →

Color vision

How Light Violet looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men

actual

#C8C8ED

Light Violet shifts noticeably here. ΔE 22.6

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#CACDE9

Light Violet changes substantially here. ΔE 27.5

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000

actual

#D4E1DE

Light Violet changes substantially here. ΔE 44.7

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000

actual

#C2C2C2

Light Violet changes substantially here. ΔE 40.3

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

To a deuteranope, the most common form, Light Violet reads as #CACDE9. That is a shift of ΔE 27.5, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. Blues survive red-green deficiency well, which is why so much interface design leans on them. The form to watch here is tritanopia, though at roughly 1 in 10,000 it affects far fewer people. The widest shift is under tritanopia, at ΔE 44.7. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

Simulate a whole palette →

Snippets

Using Light Violet in code

:root {
  --light-violet: #D6B4FC;
}

.example {
  color: var(--light-violet);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'light-violet': '#D6B4FC',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let lightViolet = Color(
    red: 0.839,
    green: 0.706,
    blue: 0.988
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="light_violet">#D6B4FC</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const lightViolet = Color(0xFFD6B4FC);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Light Violet Color?

Light Violet reads as luxury and imagination. It is saturated enough to dominate anything it sits beside, and at 92% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 78 it behaves as a cool color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Light Violet Color?

The closest CSS keyword is Plum (#DDA0DD), though it is not a match: Delta-E 12.5 means the difference is visible side by side. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 264 C at #C6AADB. The name Light Violet comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Light Violet Color Made?

On a screen Light Violet is made by additive light: 214 red, 180 green and 252 blue out of 255, with blue leading and 180 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 15%, 29%, 0%, 1%. Starting from the pure hue at 268 degrees, Light Violet is a tint, so it is that hue with white added.