Lavender

#dcd2ff

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

Lavender is a pale blue that reads gentle. Pale blues like this read clean and calm, common in health and tech. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Lavender color values

Every conversion for #dcd2ff, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dcd2ff

RGB220, 210, 255

HSL253, 100%, 91%

HSV253, 18%, 100%

CMYK14%, 18%, 0%, 0%

Lab86.27, 12.03, -20.71

XYZ70.61, 68.53, 104.11

Decimal14471935

Web safe#ccccff

Pantone263 C

Shades of lavender

#baa7ff #987bff #7750ff #5524ff #3700f8 #2d00cc #2400a1 #1a0075 #10004a #07001f

Tints of lavender

#e0d7ff #e4ddff #e9e2ff #ede8ff #f1edff

Colors that go with lavender

Complementary#f5ffd2 Analogous#d2deff Analogous#f3d2ff Triadic#ffdcd2 Triadic#d2ffdc Split complementary#fff3d2 Split complementary#deffd2

Lavender in print

At this lightness it prints as a faint wash, best for backgrounds rather than fine type. The cmyk build is 14, 18, 0, 0.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dcd2ff on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

14 18 0 0

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

17 21 4 6

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 #dcd2ff straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dcd2ff; }
.text { color: #dcd2ff; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dcd2ff; }

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 #dcd2ff against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dcd2ff 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 #dcd2ff 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 #dcd2ff 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

Here is how the numbers for #dcd2ff are worked out. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.