Photo in the color Lavender blue
Pictured: Lavender blue
rgb(204, 204, 255)
#CCCCFF

Periwinkle #CCCCFF RGB Color Code

Also known as Lavender Blue

Web-safe color.

Periwinkle (#CCCCFF) is a muted, light blue. In RGB it is made of 80% red, 80% green and 100% blue (R 204, G 204, B 255). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 240°, 100% saturation and 90% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.632, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 20% cyan, 20% 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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Periwinkle color codes

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

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #CCCCFF Valid CSS
RGB rgb(204, 204, 255) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(240, 100%, 90%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(240, 20%, 100%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(240 80% 0%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(20%, 20%, 0%, 0%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(86.22% 0.0705 284.83) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(86.22% 0.018 -0.0681) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(83.33% 7.76 -25.13) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(83.33% 26.3 287.17) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.8 0.8 0.9843) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.6454 0.6324 1.0342) Valid CSS
Decimal 13421823 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.6324. Nearest web-safe color: #CCCCFF.

Mix Periwinkle with other colors

See what #CCCCFF 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.

PaintPeriwinkle and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightPeriwinkle and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintPeriwinkle and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalPeriwinkle blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Periwinkle in your code

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

WhereCodeCopy
CSS variable--periwinkle: #CCCCFF;
Sass variable$periwinkle: #CCCCFF;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-periwinkle: #CCCCFF; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'periwinkle': '#CCCCFF' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.8, green: 0.8, blue: 1)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.8, green: 0.8, blue: 1, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="periwinkle">#FFCCCCFF</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFCCCCFF)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #CCCCFF (13.65:1, AAA). Here is how #CCCCFF does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.54:1 on white
APCA Lc 25
Fails AATry #7372A0
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
13.65:1 on black
APCA Lc -78
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 Periwinkle

#CCCCFF 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

#CCCCFF 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 Periwinkle

Named for a small flower

Periwinkle is a pale blue with a touch of violet. It is named after the lesser periwinkle, Vinca minor, a low creeping plant whose flowers have about this color. The first use of periwinkle as a color word in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1922.

The code #CCCCFF matches the periwinkle sample in Maerz and Paul's A Dictionary of Color of 1930. That book also calls the color lavender blue, which is why lavender blue shares the code on this site. Its ISCC-NBS name is very light purplish blue.

Blue plus a lot of white

There is neat math behind the code. Mix one part pure #0000FF with four parts white and you get exactly 204, 204, 255, which is periwinkle. You can try it in the color mixer.

Crayons and baseball

Crayola's Periwinkle crayon is grayer than this code, closer to #C3CDE6. In 1997 the Anaheim Angels showed off new uniforms that used periwinkle, as the Wikipedia article on periwinkle notes. For a deeper version of the same idea, see blue bell.

Periwinkle in a user interface

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

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #CCCCFF as it is. On the light theme, #CCCCFF is too hard to read as text (1.54:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #7372A0 there (4.52:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Periwinkle

These schemes turn the hue of #CCCCFF 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#CCCCFF#FFFFCC

Analogous

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

Open palette
#CCE6FFthis#CCCCFF#E6CCFF

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#CCCCFF#FFCCCC#CCFFCC

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#CCCCFF#FFE6CC#E6FFCC

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#CCCCFF#FFCCFF#FFFFCC#CCFFCC

Square

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

Open palette
this#CCCCFF#FFCCE6#FFFFCC#CCFFE6

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#000066#0000B9#0D0DFF#6060FF#B3B3FF

Gradients with Periwinkle

Four CSS gradients made from #CCCCFF. 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, #F5F5FF, #CCCCFF);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #CCCCFF, #373748);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #CCE6FF, #CCCCFF, #E6CCFF);

Edit in the gradient generator

Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #CCCCFF, #E6CDE6, #FFCCCC);

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Shades, tints and tones of Periwinkle

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)

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

  1. 50
    F6F6FF
  2. 100
    EAEBFF
  3. 200
    CCCCFF
  4. 300
    BCBCE6
  5. 400
    9E9ECC
  6. 500
    8181AF
  7. 600
    676693
  8. 700
    515078
  9. 800
    3F3E5F
  10. 900
    2E2D46
  11. 950
    1B1B29

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

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

RAL ClassicRAL 7047 Telegrey 4#CFD0CF, close (ΔE 7.2)Tailwind CSSindigo-200 #C7D2FE, nearly the same (ΔE 1.7)CSS color namesthistle #D8BFD8, close (ΔE 5.5)

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 blue or search the color library.