Violet (#8F00FF) is a medium, highly saturated purple hue. Violet is the shortest wavelength of visible light, a true spectral colour unlike purple.
In RGB it is made of 143 red, 0 green and 255 blue. Its HSL hue angle is 274° with 100% saturation and 50% lightness, while its perceptual OKLCH lightness is 55% with a chroma of 0.294. For print, a starting CMYK mix is 44% cyan, 100% magenta, 0% yellow and 0% black.
As a text color on white, Violet has a contrast ratio of 5.81:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text. On black it reaches 3.61:1 and passes AA only for large text. If you use Violet as a background, put white text on it. The APCA lightness contrast is Lc 28 for black text and Lc -82 for white text.
Its perceptual complement is #6A7A00, close to olive. Colors that look most similar are amethyst, royal blue, purple. People with red-green color blindness see violet quite differently (ΔE 18), so do not rely on it alone to signal meaning.