English VioletIt is a dark grayish magenta color having an approximate luminance of 29%. It has a hue value of 289° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Dark Byzantium, Japanese Violet, Eggplant, Cyber Grape, Palatinate Purple, Byzantium, Wine Dregs, Old Mauve, Dark Purple and Purple Navy. A bit below you will find the most similar RAL, Pantone and Sherwin-Williams colors too.
The following list contains the conversion results of color English Violet to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (86, 60, 92)
#563c5c
hsl (288.8, 21.1%, 29.8%)
hsv (288.8, 34.8%, 36.1%)
lab (29.4, 17.8, -14.6)
xyz (7.4, 6, 10.9)
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The following table contains the nearest matching standard colors.
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Tints, shades and tones are generated from the base color by adding white, black and gray paint to English Violet respectively. The process results a harmonic color scale.
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Tints
These are the color variants which are generated by adding white color to the base color. This process results a scale from a dark grayish magenta color to white. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.
This color scale contains similar colors to Old Lavender, Chinese Violet, French Lilac, Pomp And Power, Rose Quartz, Heliotrope Gray, Lilac Luster, Glossy Grape, Black Shadows, Lavender Gray, Languid Lavender, Silver Pink, Gainsboro, Platinum, Light Gray and Ghost White.
Shades
These are the color variants which are generated by adding black color to the base color. This process results a scale from a dark grayish magenta color to black. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.
This color scale contains similar colors to Dark Purple, Dark Byzantium, Japanese Violet, Raisin Black, Black Coffee, Eigengrau, Eerie Black, Rich Black (FOGRA39), Black and Smoky Black.
Tones
These are the color variants which are generated by adding gray color to the base color. This process results a scale from a dark grayish magenta color to gray. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.
This color scale contains similar colors to Dark Byzantium, Eggplant, Japanese Violet, Dark Liver, Black Coffee, Old Burgundy, Jet, Onyx and Davy's Grey.
Color schemes represent a set of colors creating a harmonic and aesthetic feeling. Color schemes are generated by choosing colors around the color wheel.
We can talk about monochromatic, complementary, triadic and tetradic color schemes, choosing one, two, three or four colors around the color wheel respectively.
In the following tables these color schemes are present.
Monochromatic
The monochromatic scale is generated by choosing colors on the color wheel near to the base color. As the colors of the monochromatic scale are close to each other, they create a harmonic feeling.
This color scale contains cold and warm colors. There are variants of blue, magenta and rose colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Independence, Purple Navy, Blue Bell, Maximum Blue Purple, Dark Byzantium, Lilac, Glossy Grape, Old Mauve, Wine Dregs, Kobi and Charm Pink.
Complementary
The complementary scale is generated by choosing the color on the opposite side on the color wheel relative to the base color. This results in slight vibrating tension between the complementary colors.
This color scale contains cold colors. There are variants of magenta and green colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Chinese Violet, Pomp And Power, Hunter Green, UP Forest Green, Dark Sea Green and Laurel Green.
Triadic
The triadic scale is generated by choosing two colors on the color wheel relative to the base color. This combines the slight vibrating tension and the harmonic feeling between the triadic colors.
This color scale contains cold and warm colors. There are variants of magenta, cyan and orange colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Chinese Violet, Pomp And Power, Deep Jungle Green, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Cadet Blue, Green Sheen, Pullman Brown (UPS Brown), Dark Brown, Light French Beige and Khaki (Web).
Tetradic
The tetradic scale is generated by choosing three colors on the color wheel relative to the base color. This combination covers the whole color wheel containing both the complementary and harmonic colors of the base color.
This color scale contains cold and warm colors. There are variants of magenta, orange, green, cyan and azure colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Chinese Violet, Pomp And Power, Tuscan Brown, Coffee, Antique Brass, Tumbleweed, Hunter Green, UP Forest Green, Dark Sea Green, Laurel Green, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Dark Slate Gray, Dark Sky Blue and Maximum Blue.
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