What a violet screen is used for
- Soft, cool-warm ambient light
- Backgrounds for photography where purple is too heavy
- Gentle screen fill for video calls
Violet screen online: #EE82EE at full screen
CSS violet is #EE82EE — red and blue high with a substantial amount of green, which lightens it considerably. It is much closer to pink than the spectral violet at the far end of the visible range, which is a deep blue-purple that displays cannot really reproduce.
That gap is worth knowing about. True violet is a short-wavelength colour outside the sRGB gamut; what a screen shows you is an approximation mixed from red and blue. It is one of the few named colours where the screen version and the physical version are meaningfully different things.
As a light it is soft and flattering, sitting between pink and lavender in effect.
How to get a full screen violet background
Press the fullscreen button on the player above, or the F key. Escape returns you to the page. On a desktop browser F11 does the same job and hides the browser's own toolbars as well.
The colour box is a control, not a picture: use the hex field to enter any value, pick another shade from the palette, or download the current colour as a PNG at your screen's resolution. Whatever you set is written into the address bar, so the link you copy reproduces exactly what you are looking at.