Periwinkle color
A light, soft blue-violet. Dreamy and cool.
- Hex
- #8D97D6
- RGB
- 141, 151, 214
- OKLCH
- 69.3% 0.093 276.7
- Value
- 6 of 10
- Family
- Blue-violet
Periwinkle tints, tones and shades
A tint adds white, a tone adds gray of the same lightness, and a shade adds black. Each row starts with periwinkle itself.
Tints
#8D97D6#A3ACDF#B9C0E8#D0D5F0#E7EAF8
Tones
#8D97D6#9098CB#939ABF#969BB4#999BA8
Shades
#8D97D6#6B73A3#4B5173#2D3146#12141D
The opposite of periwinkle
Opposite periwinkle on the color wheel sits taupe, #9D8664. Side by side, each makes the other look stronger; mixed, they turn each other gray.
Periwinkle
Taupe
Colors that go with periwinkle
With its opposite
#8D97D6 · #E1E5F6 · #948878 · #9D8664 · #2A241A
With its neighbors
#6BA2D3 · #8D97D6 · #AB8DCA · #DBDFF4 · #2D3146
One color, light to dark
#EDEFF9 · #969BB4 · #8D97D6 · #3C405C · #12141D
Periwinkle in paintings
The nearest colors to periwinkle in our painting palettes.
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