Lavender color: hex codes, shades and palettes

Palettes built around lavender. Click any swatch to copy its hex code.

Lavender is #E6E6FA, pale blue. Below are its shades with hex codes, the values in every common format, and lavender color palettes to copy.

Lavender hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#E6E6FA

HEX: #E6E6FA
RGB: rgb(230, 230, 250)
HSL: hsl(240, 67%, 94%)
OKLCH: oklch(93.1% 0.027 285.9)
On white: 1.23:1
On black: 17.06:1

Shades of lavender

9 steps from one base color, generated in OKLCH so each step is an equal perceived step rather than an equal numeric one. Click a swatch to copy it.

Lavender color values

#E6E6FArgb(230, 230, 250)

Color spaces of #e6e6fa
RGB	230	230	250
HSL	240°	67%	94%
HSV	240°	8%	98%
CMYK	0.08	0.08	0.00	0.02
XYZ	78.1819	80.3183	101.8081
Yxy	80.3183	0.3003	0.3086
CIE-Lab	91.8275	3.7078	-9.6613
Hunter Lab	89.6205	-1.1186	-4.6185
OKLCH	93.1%	0.027	285.9°

#E6E6FA is 230 red, 230 green and 250 blue. Its blue channel carries the most of it. The nearest of the 216 web safe colors is #FFFFFF.

CIE-Lab, XYZ and Yxy are measured against D65, the white point sRGB itself is defined against. Hunter Lab uses the original illuminant C constants, which is what paint and plastics specifications quote, so the two Lab rows are not directly comparable. CMYK is the plain arithmetic conversion: real ink values depend on the press, the paper and the profile.

Base numbers
Base	Red	Green	Blue
Binary	11100110	11100110	11111010
Octal	346	346	372
Decimal	230	230	250
Hex	E6	E6	FA

#e6e6fa mixed with black

Ten even steps of the classic shade ramp, worked out in RGB, which is how the term has always been defined and how other references list it. The OKLCH scale further down this page answers a different question: it steps by equal perceived amounts, so its values are not the same.

#E6E6FA
#CFCFE1
#B8B8C8
#A1A1AF
#8A8A96
#73737D
#5C5C64
#45454B
#2D2D31
#161618
#000000

#e6e6fa mixed with white

The tint ramp, by the same rule in the other direction.

#E6E6FA
#E8E8FA
#EBEBFB
#EDEDFB
#F0F0FC
#F2F2FC
#F5F5FD
#F7F7FD
#FAFAFE
#FCFCFE
#FFFFFF

Channel shares

Red32.4%
Green32.4%
Blue35.2%

Color schemes

Turned in OKLCH rather than HSL, so every member keeps the lightness and chroma of the original instead of one of them arriving washed out.

Complementary

#E6E6FA
#EAEAD5

Triadic

#E6E6FA
#F9E3D9
#D8EEE4

Analogous

#E6E6FA
#EFE3F5
#DDE9FB

Monochromatic

#767687
#9A9AAC
#BFBFD2
#E6E6FA
#F8F8FF
#F8F8FF
#F8F8FF

#e6e6fa on black and on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 17.06:1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 1.23:1

Body text needs 4.5:1 to meet AA and large text needs 3:1, so a ratio tells you which of the two backgrounds this color can be read on, and at what size.

CSS for #e6e6fa

color: #e6e6fa;
background-color: #e6e6fa;
border: 3px solid #e6e6fa;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px 2px #e6e6fa;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(230, 230, 250, 0.8);

/* Perceptually even, and what a modern stylesheet wants */
color: oklch(93.1% 0.027 285.9);

The OKLCH form is the same color stated so that lightening or darkening it moves by an amount the eye agrees with. Every current browser understands it.

Contrast and readability

Lavender on white measures 1.23:1 and on black 17.06:1. WCAG AA asks for 4.5:1 on normal text and 3:1 on large text and UI components, so the higher of those two decides which background it belongs on. In the scale above, 500 is the first to clear 4.5:1 on white, at 5.31:1.

The contrast checker reports every level for a given pair and suggests the nearest passing shade on the same hue. The color picker builds this same scale from any color you paste in.

Related colors: purple, violet, lilac, plum, indigo, eggplant. See every shade on the colors index.

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