Lavender

#ced8fc

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

Lavender sits in the blue band, pale and vivid. Pale blues like this read clean and calm, common in health and tech. It pairs with warm neutrals for balance, or with a brighter accent for contrast.

Lavender color values

Every conversion for #ced8fc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ced8fc

RGB206, 216, 252

HSL227, 88%, 90%

HSV227, 18%, 99%

CMYK18%, 14%, 0%, 1%

Lab86.63, 3.88, -18.68

XYZ67.58, 69.26, 101.9

Decimal13555964

Web safe#ccccff

Pantone657 C

Shades of lavender

#a6b8fa #7d98f7 #5578f5 #2d58f2 #0e3de6 #0c32be #092896 #071d6d #041245 #02081d

Tints of lavender

#d4ddfc #dbe2fd #e1e7fd #e8ecfe #eef2fe

Colors that go with lavender

Complementary#fcf2ce Analogous#ceeffc Analogous#dbcefc Triadic#fcced8 Triadic#d8fcce Split complementary#fcdbce Split complementary#effcce

Lavender in print

In print it lays down as a whisper of ink, so keep it off small text where it can vanish. The cmyk build is 18, 14, 0, 1.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ced8fc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

18 14 0 1

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

21 17 4 7

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

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

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 #ced8fc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ced8fc; }
.text { color: #ced8fc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ced8fc; }

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 #ced8fc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ced8fc 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 #ced8fc 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 #ced8fc 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 #ced8fc is computed, not guessed. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.