Lavender

Hex #E6E6FA, rgb(230 230 250). A white CSS named color.

Lavender#E6E6FA

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About Lavender

Lavender is a very light near-white with the hex code #E6E6FA. In RGB it is made of 230 red, 230 green and 250 blue; in HSL its hue is 240°, with 67% saturation and 94% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 93.1%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "lavender" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.23:1 and against black 17.06:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Lavender mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

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Lavender 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Lavender

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

Complementary

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Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Lavender with white and black. The readable text color on Lavender is black.

Lavender textSmall text on white

On white1.23:1

AA fail
AA Large fail
AAA fail
UI 3:1 fail

APCA Lc 11

Lavender textSmall text on black

On black17.06:1

AA pass
AA Large pass
AAA pass
UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -93

Black text on Lavender (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Lavender appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

Protanopia#E2E8FB
Deuteranopia#E1E7F9
Tritanopia#E2E9EC
Protanomaly#E3E7FB
Deuteranomaly#E2E7FA
Tritanomaly#E5E7F4
Achromatopsia#E8E8E8

Colors similar to Lavender

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Lavender in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.lavender {
  color: lavender; /* #E6E6FA */
  background-color: rgb(230 230 250);
  border-color: oklch(93.1% 0.027 285.9);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-lavender-500, text-lavender-700... */
@theme {
  --color-lavender-50: #F9F9FF;
  --color-lavender-100: #E6E6FA;
  --color-lavender-200: #D2D2F7;
  --color-lavender-300: #B6B3F5;
  --color-lavender-400: #9289EC;
  --color-lavender-500: #7D6EE1;
  --color-lavender-600: #6B5CC9;
  --color-lavender-700: #5548A5;
  --color-lavender-800: #443A83;
  --color-lavender-900: #37306A;
  --color-lavender-950: #150F32;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#E6E6FA] text-[#000000]">…</div>