Lavender

#cecee5

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for lavender, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Lavender is a light blue that reads open. Light blues like this feel trustworthy, common in finance and software. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Lavender color values

Every conversion for #cecee5, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#cecee5

RGB206, 206, 229

HSL240, 31%, 85%

HSV240, 10%, 90%

CMYK10%, 10%, 0%, 10%

Lab83.4, 4.4, -11.34

XYZ61.67, 62.92, 83.02

Decimal13553381

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone2706 C

Shades of lavender

#b4b4d7 #9999c9 #7f7fbb #6464ad #515198 #43437e #353563 #272749 #19192e #0b0b14

Tints of lavender

#d5d5e9 #dddded #e4e4f1 #ececf5 #f3f3f9

Colors that go with lavender

Complementary#e5e5ce Analogous#cedae5 Analogous#dacee5 Triadic#e5cece Triadic#cee5ce Split complementary#e5dace Split complementary#dae5ce

Lavender in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 10, 10, 0, 10.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #cecee5 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

10 10 0 10

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

13 13 4 16

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Lavender in css

Copy #cecee5 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #cecee5; }
.text { color: #cecee5; }
.border { border: 2px solid #cecee5; }

How lavender looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Lavender and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #cecee5 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #cecee5 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Lavender on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #cecee5 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around lavender? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn lavender into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #cecee5 and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from lavender, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #cecee5 is computed, not guessed. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.