Photo in the color Brilliant lavender
Pictured: Brilliant lavender
rgb(244, 187, 255)
#F4BBFF

Brilliant Lavender #F4BBFF RGB Color Code

Also known as Electric Lavender

Brilliant Lavender (#F4BBFF) is a moderately saturated, light purple. In RGB it is made of 96% red, 73% green and 100% blue (R 244, G 187, B 255). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 290Β°, 100% saturation and 87% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.620, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 4% cyan, 27% magenta, 0% yellow and 0% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a cool color. It goes well with warm oranges and reds for contrast. For a calm, matching look, use nearby cool tones.

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Brilliant Lavender color codes

#F4BBFF in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #F4BBFF Valid CSS
RGB rgb(244, 187, 255) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(290, 100%, 87%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(290, 27%, 100%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(290 73% 0%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(4%, 27%, 0%, 0%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(86.52% 0.1101 320.89) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(86.52% 0.0854 -0.0694) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(82.81% 29.55 -25.49) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(82.81% 39.03 319.22) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.9223 0.7422 0.9831) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.7313 0.6199 1.0273) Valid CSS
Decimal 16038911 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.6199. Nearest web-safe color: #FFCCFF.

Mix Brilliant Lavender with other colors

See what #F4BBFF makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintBrilliant Lavender and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightBrilliant Lavender and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintBrilliant Lavender and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalBrilliant Lavender blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Brilliant Lavender in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

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CSS variable--brilliant-lavender: #F4BBFF;
Sass variable$brilliant-lavender: #F4BBFF;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-brilliant-lavender: #F4BBFF; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'brilliant-lavender': '#F4BBFF' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.957, green: 0.733, blue: 1)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.957, green: 0.733, blue: 1, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="brilliant_lavender">#FFF4BBFF</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFF4BBFF)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #F4BBFF (13.40:1, AAA). Here is how #F4BBFF does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.57:1 on white
APCA Lc 26
Fails AATry #9864A2
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
13.40:1 on black
APCA Lc -77
AAA

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Brilliant Lavender

#F4BBFF next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

#F4BBFF stays easy to tell apart from its complement and triadic colors for the common types of color blindness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Brilliant Lavender

Named for lightning

An older version of Wikipedia's lavender article listed #F4BBFF as brilliant lavender. It gave a second name too, electric lavender. The idea was that lightning usually looks electric blue, but in some weather it can look like this pale purple pink. The only source cited was a website, so the name has no long history. The same code has its own page here as electric lavender.

Pinker than CSS lavender

#F4BBFF is much pinker than the CSS lavender, #E6E6FA, which is almost white. It sits closer to mauve, #E0B0FF. Use dark text on it, since white text only gets 1.57 to 1.

Brilliant Lavender in a user interface

A sample app screen with #F4BBFF as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #F4BBFF as it is. On the light theme, #F4BBFF is too hard to read as text (1.57:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #9864A2 there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Brilliant Lavender

These schemes turn the hue of #F4BBFF around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#F4BBFF#C6FFBB

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#D2BBFFthis#F4BBFF#FFBBE8

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#F4BBFF#FFF4BB#BBFFF4

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#F4BBFF#E8FFBB#BBFFD2

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#F4BBFF#FFBBC6#C6FFBB#BBFFF4

Square

Four hues 90Β° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#F4BBFF#FFD2BB#C6FFBB#BBE8FF

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#560066#9B00B9#D80DFF#E560FF#F3B3FF

Gradients with Brilliant Lavender

Four CSS gradients made from #F4BBFF. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #FDF2FF, #F4BBFF);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4BBFF, #443248);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #D2BBFF, #F4BBFF, #FFBBE8);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #F4BBFF, #F9D9E0, #FFF4BB);

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Shades, tints and tones of Brilliant Lavender

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Brilliant Lavender sits at step 200. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FDF3FF
  2. 100
    FBE4FF
  3. 200
    F4BBFF
  4. 300
    DCAEE5
  5. 400
    C18DCB
  6. 500
    A46FAE
  7. 600
    885592
  8. 700
    6E4177
  9. 800
    57315F
  10. 900
    402345
  11. 950
    251628

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #F4BBFF in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 7047 Telegrey 4#CFD0CF, rough match (Ξ”E 11.2)Tailwind CSSfuchsia-300 #F0ABFC, very close (Ξ”E 3.9)CSS color namesthistle #D8BFD8, close (Ξ”E 7.4)

Ξ”E is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (Ξ”E in OKLab). Browse all shades of purple or search the color library.