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rgb(180, 131, 149)
#B48395

English Lavender #B48395 RGB Color Code

English Lavender (#B48395) is a muted, medium pink. In RGB it is made of 71% red, 51% green and 58% blue (R 180, G 131, B 149). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 338°, 25% saturation and 61% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.281, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 27% magenta, 17% yellow and 29% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a warm color. It goes well with cool blues and greens for contrast. For a matching look, use nearby warm tones.

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English Lavender color codes

#B48395 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #B48395 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(180, 131, 149) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(338, 25%, 61%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(338, 27%, 71%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(338 51% 29%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 27%, 17%, 29%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(66.34% 0.0647 355.19) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(66.34% 0.0645 -0.0054) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(60.11% 21.47 -1.84) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(60.11% 21.55 355.1) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.6768 0.5216 0.5819) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.3236 0.2811 0.3216) Valid CSS
Decimal 11830165 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.2811. Nearest web-safe color: #CC9999.

Mix English Lavender with other colors

See what #B48395 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.

PaintEnglish Lavender and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightEnglish Lavender and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintEnglish Lavender and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalEnglish Lavender blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use English 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--english-lavender: #B48395;
Sass variable$english-lavender: #B48395;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-english-lavender: #B48395; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'english-lavender': '#B48395' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.706, green: 0.514, blue: 0.584)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.706, green: 0.514, blue: 0.584, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="english_lavender">#FFB48395</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFB48395)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #B48395 (6.62:1, AA). Here is how #B48395 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
3.17:1 on white
APCA Lc 59
AA LargeTry #99697B
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
6.62:1 on black
APCA Lc -43
AA

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 English Lavender

#B48395 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

With deuteranopia, #B48395 and #83B4A2 look much alike. Don't use these colors alone to tell things apart, for example in a chart. Add labels, patterns or a difference in lightness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color English Lavender

A Pantone textile color

This shade comes from Pantone. In its textile color list, called TPX, number 17-3617 is named English Lavender. The Wikipedia article on lavender describes it as a medium light, grayish pink lavender. On the ISCC-NBS scale it is a grayish purplish red.

The name likely comes from the garden plant Lavandula angustifolia, which is commonly called English lavender. Pantone gives no reason for the name, though.

Dusty, not pastel

English lavender is much grayer and pinker than the CSS keyword lavender or floral lavender. It is close to Mountbatten pink and a bit lighter than mauve taupe. Black text is the safer choice on it, at 6.62 to 1.

English Lavender in a user interface

A sample app screen with #B48395 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #B48395 as it is. On the light theme, #B48395 is too hard to read as text (3.17:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #99697B there (4.51:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for English Lavender

These schemes turn the hue of #B48395 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#B48395#83B4A2

Analogous

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

Open palette
#B483AEthis#B48395#B48A83

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#B48395#95B483#8395B4

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#B48395#83B48A#83AEB4

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#B48395#B4A283#83B4A2#8395B4

Square

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

Open palette
this#B48395#AEB483#83B4A2#8A83B4

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#402630#734656#A4687E#C39CAA#E2CFD6

Gradients with English Lavender

Four CSS gradients made from #B48395. 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, #F0E5E9, #B48395);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #B48395, #302026);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #B483AE, #B48395, #B48A83);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #B48395, #A79C8D, #95B483);

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Shades, tints and tones of English 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)

English Lavender sits at step 500. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF3F7
  2. 100
    FEE5EE
  3. 200
    F2D0DC
  4. 300
    DEB3C2
  5. 400
    C393A5
  6. 500
    B48395
  7. 600
    8A5C6D
  8. 700
    704757
  9. 800
    583744
  10. 900
    412831
  11. 950
    26181D

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #B48395 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 4009 Pastel violet#A38995, very close (ΔE 3.0)Tailwind CSSzinc-400 #A1A1AA, close (ΔE 7.8)CSS color namesrosybrown #BC8F8F, very close (ΔE 3.9)

ΔE 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 (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of pink or search the color library.