Also known as Brilliant Lavender
Electric 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.
#F4BBFF in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.
| Format | Value | Copy |
|---|---|---|
| HEX | #F4BBFF | |
| RGB | rgb(244, 187, 255) | |
| HSL | hsl(290, 100%, 87%) | |
| HSV / HSB | hsv(290, 27%, 100%) | |
| HWB | hwb(290 73% 0%) | |
| CMYK | cmyk(4%, 27%, 0%, 0%) | |
| OKLCH | oklch(86.52% 0.1101 320.89) | |
| OKLab | oklab(86.52% 0.0854 -0.0694) | |
| CIELAB | lab(82.81% 29.55 -25.49) | |
| CIELCH | lch(82.81% 39.03 319.22) | |
| Display P3 | color(display-p3 0.9223 0.7422 0.9831) | |
| XYZ (D65) | color(xyz-d65 0.7313 0.6199 1.0273) | |
| Decimal | 16038911 |
CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.6199. Nearest web-safe color: #FFCCFF.
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.
Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.
| Where | Code | Copy |
|---|---|---|
| CSS variable | --electric-lavender: #F4BBFF; | |
| Sass variable | $electric-lavender: #F4BBFF; | |
| Tailwind CSS v4 | @theme { --color-electric-lavender: #F4BBFF; } | |
| Tailwind CSS v3 config | colors: { 'electric-lavender': '#F4BBFF' } | |
| SwiftUI | Color(red: 0.957, green: 0.733, blue: 1) | |
| UIKit | UIColor(red: 0.957, green: 0.733, blue: 1, alpha: 1) | |
| Android XML | <color name="electric_lavender">#FFF4BBFF</color> | |
| Flutter and Jetpack Compose | Color(0xFFF4BBFF) |
Black text works best on #F4BBFF (13.40:1, AAA). Here is how #F4BBFF does as a text color:
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.
#F4BBFF next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.
#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.
Electric lavender is a very pale pink purple. Its name comes from online color name lists. Some of them call the same code brilliant lavender. It is not in the Wikipedia article on lavender shades or the Crayola crayon list, and we found no older source.
The color is much warmer than the CSS keyword lavender, which is almost white with a blue tint. Close neighbors on this site are mauve and pink lavender. Use dark text on it: black gives a contrast of 13.40 to 1.
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.
These schemes turn the hue of #F4BBFF around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.
Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.
Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.
Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.
A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.
Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.
Four hues 90Β° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.
One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.
Four CSS gradients made from #F4BBFF. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.
From a pale tint to the full color.
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #FDF2FF, #F4BBFF);
The color fading into a dark shade.
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4BBFF, #443248);
Its two neighbors on the color wheel.
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #D2BBFF, #F4BBFF, #FFBBE8);
A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #F4BBFF, #F9D9E0, #FFF4BB);
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.
Electric Lavender sits at step 200. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.
The nearest match to #F4BBFF in three color systems that designers and builders use.
ΞE 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 (ΞE in OKLab). Browse all shades of purple or search the color library.
