Colours of screens and design
Websites, apps, film and anything lit from behind.
#8000FF
Violet
A bluish-purple seen in both flowers and the light spectrumBasic colour
#800080
Purple
A cool colour between red and blue, long linked with royalty and rarityBasic colour · 🇱🇧 Lebanon +5
#9966CC
Lavender
A pale purple named for the lavender flower, with many subtle variationsNamed shade
#572364
Mulberry
A deep reddish-purple named after the colour of mulberry jam or pieNamed shade
#DA70D6
Orchid
A vivid purple named for the colour of orchid flowersNamed shade
#C71585
Red-violet
A strong colour found between red and magenta, often called purple in artNamed shade
#663399
rebeccapurple
A deep purple web colour named in memory of Rebecca MeyerScreen colour
Purple and violet
Pigment Violet 29
A dark red-purple pigment used in paints, inks, and dyesPigment
#9400D3
Dark violet
The traditional violet found in paints and coloured pencils before the 1970sNamed shade
#BF00FF
Electric purple
A vivid purple shown at its brightest on digital screensNamed shade
#8F00FF
Electric violet
A vivid screen colour matching the middle of the violet spectrumNamed shade
#512888
KSU purple
A dark, blue-toned purple used by Kansas State UniversityNamed shade
#800080
Patriarch
A deep, reddish-purple used as the web colour purpleNamed shade
#A020F0
Purple (X11)
A bright, bluish purple set by X11 colour standards in 1987Named shade
#9678B6
Purple mountain majesty
A medium lavender-grey shade named by Crayola in 1993Named shade
#C0448F
Red-violet (Crayola)
A reddish-purple shade used in Crayola crayons and traditional pigmentsNamed shade
#8F00FF
Electric Violet
A vivid violet halfway between blue and magenta on the RGB colour wheelNamed shade
#EE82EE
Violet (web)
A pale magenta shade used as 'violet' in web and digital designNamed shade
#9F00FF
Vivid violet
A strong violet matching the edge of human vision at about 380 nmNamed shade
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Lavender: User:Fir0002, GFDL 1.2, source
- rebeccapurple: Chris Jennings, CC BY 2.0, source
- Violet: Gonzalo Devia, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Purple: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mulberry: B.navez, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Orchid: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Red-violet: Fructibus, CC0, source
- Pigment Violet 29: Smokefoot, Public domain, source