Lavender

#dfd5fa

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

Lavender falls in the purple range, pale and strong. Purples like this signal creativity and a premium feel. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Lavender color values

Every conversion for #dfd5fa, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dfd5fa

RGB223, 213, 250

HSL256, 79%, 91%

HSV256, 15%, 98%

CMYK11%, 15%, 0%, 2%

Lab87.08, 10.37, -16.82

XYZ71.48, 70.18, 100.22

Decimal14669306

Web safe#ccccff

Pantone263 C

Shades of lavender

#c2aef5 #a488f1 #8761ec #693ae8 #4f1add #4116b6 #33118f #250c69 #180842 #0a031b

Tints of lavender

#e3dafb #e7dffb #ebe5fc #efeafc #f3effd

Colors that go with lavender

Complementary#f0fad5 Analogous#d5ddfa Analogous#f2d5fa Triadic#fadfd5 Triadic#d5fadf Split complementary#faf2d5 Split complementary#defad5

Lavender in print

At this lightness it prints as a faint wash, best for backgrounds rather than fine type. The cmyk build is 11, 15, 0, 2.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dfd5fa on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

11 15 0 2

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

14 18 4 8

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 #dfd5fa straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dfd5fa; }
.text { color: #dfd5fa; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dfd5fa; }

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 #dfd5fa against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dfd5fa 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 #dfd5fa 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 #dfd5fa 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 #dfd5fa are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.