HEX Color #7516E9 (Blueviolet)

About #7516E9

At its core, #7516E9 is a medium and vivid hue. It is closely associated with the named CSS color Blueviolet. Its digital footprint relies on 117 parts red, 22 parts green, and 233 parts blue light.

While screens use RGB, printing presses rely on Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black). To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 50% cyan and 91% magenta inks. Always request a physical proof before doing a large print run with this exact code.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) dictate how we should use this color. Mathematical luminance calculations suggest that #FFFFFF text provides the most optimal reading experience. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#7516E9

RGB117, 22, 233

HSL267.0°, 82.7%, 50.0%

CMYK50%, 91%, 0%, 9%

HSV267.0°, 90.6%, 91.4%

LAB38.3, 74.6, -85.3

XYZ22.3, 10.2, 77.9

Decimal7673577

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#7516E9 #89E916

Analogous

#1620E9 #DE16E9

Triadic

#E97516 #16E974

Tetradic

#E91620 #89E916 #16E9DE

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#7516E9

#842FEB

#9349ED

#A363F0

#B27DF2

#C197F5

#D1B1F7

#E0CBFA

#EFE5FC

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#7516E9

#6813CF

#5B11B5

#4E0E9B

#410C81

#340967

#27074D

#1A0433

#0D0219

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

6.89:1

Text on #FFFFFF

AA

3.05:1

Text on #000000

AA Large

6.59:1

Text on #F8FAFC

AA

2.59:1

Text on #0F172A

FAIL

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #7516E9; }

.text-color { color: #7516E9; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #7516E9; }

Similar Colors

Blueviolet

#8A2BE2