Photo in the color Lavender (floral)
Pictured: Lavender (floral)
rgb(181, 126, 220)
#B57EDC

Lavender - Floral #B57EDC RGB Color Code

Lavender - Floral (#B57EDC) is a moderately saturated, light purple. In RGB it is made of 71% red, 49% green and 86% blue (R 181, G 126, B 220). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 275°, 57% saturation and 68% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.299, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 18% cyan, 43% magenta, 0% yellow and 14% 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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Lavender - Floral color codes

#B57EDC in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #B57EDC Valid CSS
RGB rgb(181, 126, 220) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(275, 57%, 68%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(275, 43%, 86%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(275 49% 14%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(18%, 43%, 0%, 14%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(68.44% 0.145 309.99) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(68.44% 0.0932 -0.1111) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(61.29% 34.8 -40.15) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(61.29% 53.13 310.92) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.6778 0.5032 0.8404) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.3943 0.2991 0.7141) Valid CSS
Decimal 11894492 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.2991. Nearest web-safe color: #CC66CC.

Mix Lavender - Floral with other colors

See what #B57EDC 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.

PaintLavender - Floral and red paintOpen in the color mixer
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DigitalLavender - Floral blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Lavender - Floral 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--lavender-floral: #B57EDC;
Sass variable$lavender-floral: #B57EDC;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-lavender-floral: #B57EDC; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'lavender-floral': '#B57EDC' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.71, green: 0.494, blue: 0.863)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.71, green: 0.494, blue: 0.863, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="lavender_floral">#FFB57EDC</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFB57EDC)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #B57EDC (6.98:1, AA). Here is how #B57EDC does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
3.01:1 on white
APCA Lc 57
AA LargeTry #9660BB
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
6.98:1 on black
APCA Lc -45
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 Lavender - Floral

#B57EDC 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

#B57EDC 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 Lavender - Floral

The color of the flower

This shade is meant to match the flowers of the lavender plant, so it is often called floral lavender. It is much stronger than the web color lavender, #E6E6FA, which looks almost white. The Wikipedia article on lavender dates the first use of the word for a color in English to 1705.

The 1930 sample

#B57EDC matches the lavender swatch in Maerz and Paul's A Dictionary of Color, printed in 1930. Before computers, that book was the usual reference for color names. Wikipedia calls the shade a medium violet. Mixing violet paint and white paint half and half would give about this color.

Close relatives

Lavender purple is grayer and a bit darker. Wisteria is paler and softer. Black text on floral lavender has a contrast ratio of 6.98 to 1, so it is easy to read.

Lavender - Floral in a user interface

A sample app screen with #B57EDC as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #B57EDC as it is. On the light theme, #B57EDC is too hard to read as text (3.01:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #9660BB there (4.48:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Lavender - Floral

These schemes turn the hue of #B57EDC 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
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Analogous

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

Open palette
#867EDCthis#B57EDC#DC7ED4

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#B57EDC#DCB57E#7EDCB5

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#B57EDC#D4DC7E#7EDC86

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#B57EDC#DC7EA5#A5DC7E#7EDCB5

Square

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

Open palette
this#B57EDC#DC867E#A5DC7E#7ED4DC

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#381650#652791#9240CB#B782DD#DCC3EF

Gradients with Lavender - Floral

Four CSS gradients made from #B57EDC. 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, #F0E5F9, #B57EDC);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #B57EDC, #301F3C);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #867EDC, #B57EDC, #DC7ED4);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #B57EDC, #C79CB3, #DCB57E);

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Shades, tints and tones of Lavender - Floral

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)

Lavender - Floral sits at step 400. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FAF4FF
  2. 100
    F4E7FF
  3. 200
    E9CEFF
  4. 300
    D8ABFA
  5. 400
    B57EDC
  6. 500
    A16AC7
  7. 600
    8550A8
  8. 700
    6C3C8B
  9. 800
    552C6F
  10. 900
    3E2052
  11. 950
    25152F

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #B57EDC in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 4011 Pearl violet#8773A1, rough match (ΔE 11.8)Tailwind CSSpurple-400 #C084FC, close (ΔE 5.0)CSS color namesorchid #DA70D6, close (ΔE 6.6)

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 purple or search the color library.