Inspect Violet (#EE82EE) in HEX, RGB, HSL, LCH and OKLCH, check its contrast, and copy the value you need.
Violet
#EE82EE
Black text reads best on this background, at 9.06:1.
Violet is one of the 148 CSS named colors, and resolves to #EE82EE in every browser. In numbers that is rgb(238, 130, 238) and hsl(300, 76%, 72%). Perceptually it is a light, vivid color: OKLCH puts its lightness at 76% and its chroma at 0.186. It sits in the pinks at 327 degrees of OKLCH hue, and reads as a cool color.
White text only reaches 2.32:1 here, so black text is the safer pairing at 9.06:1. At this chroma it is loud enough to be an accent or a call to action, but it will fight anything else vivid placed next to it.
The closest CSS named colors to Violet, measured with CIEDE2000, are Orchid (#DA70D6), Plum (#DDA0DD), HotPink (#FF69B4). If Violet is not quite right, those are the nearest keywords to try before reaching for a custom value.
HEX
#EE82EE
RGB
rgb(238, 130, 238)
HSL
hsl(300, 76%, 72%)
HWB
hwb(300 51% 7%)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 45%, 0%, 7%)
LAB
lab(69.62 53.29 -36.54)
LCH
lch(69.62 64.62 325.57)
OKLCH
oklch(76.19% 0.1861 327.21)
WCAG asks for 4.5:1 between body text and its background. On #EE82EE white text measures 2.32:1 and black text 9.06:1, so black clears it and white does not.
White text on Violet
WCAG 2.2
2.32:1
APCA
Lc 50
Fails AA body text
Fails AAA body text
Fails AA large text
Black text on Violet
WCAG 2.2
9.06:1
APCA
Lc 58
Passes AA body text
Passes AAA body text
Passes AA large text
Check Violet against any other color in the contrast checker.
Violet sits at 76% OKLCH lightness. Holding its hue and chroma and moving only that value carries it up to #FFF5FE and down to #0F0010, which keeps the family recognizable instead of letting it drift toward gray the way a plain HSL ramp does.
#FD90FD
20% lighter
#FFABFE
40% lighter
#FFC5FD
60% lighter
#FFDEFE
80% lighter
#FFF5FE
100% lighter
#C359C3
20% darker
#98309A
40% darker
#6D006F
60% darker
#3B003C
80% darker
#0F0010
100% darker
Build a full accessible scale from #EE82EE in the shade generator.
Hues rotated around #EE82EE in OKLCH, then pulled back into the sRGB gamut. Each swatch is labelled with the nearest CSS named color so you have a keyword to start from.
Violet sits at 327 degrees. Rotating it a half turn lands on 147 degrees, the hue directly opposite. It is the strongest pairing you can make without changing lightness, and the one most likely to vibrate if you use both at full chroma.
The neighbors of Violet at 297 and 357 degrees. They stay close enough to read as the same family, which is what you want for hover states, secondary surfaces and gradients.
327, 87 and 207 degrees divide the wheel into thirds. Balanced enough to carry a whole palette without one color dominating the other two.
Instead of the complement at 147 degrees, this pair flanks it at 117 and 177. You keep most of the contrast of a complementary pairing while losing the harshness.
Explore more combinations around Violet on the color wheel.
The biggest shift is under achromatopsia, where #EE82EE reads as #A1A1A1, 27.1 CIEDE2000 units away. If Violet is the only thing marking a state or a series, roughly one viewer in twelve will miss it.
Protanopia
#7C99F3
Deuteranopia
#91A5E9
Tritanopia
#F689A3
Achromatopsia
#A1A1A1
The nearest CSS keywords to #EE82EE, ranked by perceptual distance rather than by how close their hex digits happen to look.