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Pictured: Thistle, the closest color we have a photo of (#D8BFD8)
rgb(216, 178, 209)
#D8B2D1

Pink Lavender #D8B2D1 RGB Color Code

Pink Lavender (#D8B2D1) is a muted, light pink. In RGB it is made of 85% red, 70% green and 82% blue (R 216, G 178, B 209). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 311°, 33% saturation and 77% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.510, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 18% magenta, 3% yellow and 15% 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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Pink Lavender color codes

#D8B2D1 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #D8B2D1 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(216, 178, 209) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(311, 33%, 77%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(311, 18%, 85%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(311 70% 15%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 18%, 3%, 15%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(80.65% 0.0602 332.46) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(80.65% 0.0534 -0.0278) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(76.71% 18.05 -10.3) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(76.71% 20.78 330.29) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.8232 0.7037 0.8121) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.5575 0.5104 0.6724) Valid CSS
Decimal 14201553 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.5104. Nearest web-safe color: #CC99CC.

Mix Pink Lavender with other colors

See what #D8B2D1 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.

PaintPink Lavender and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightPink Lavender and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintPink Lavender and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalPink Lavender blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Pink 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--pink-lavender: #D8B2D1;
Sass variable$pink-lavender: #D8B2D1;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-pink-lavender: #D8B2D1; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'pink-lavender': '#D8B2D1' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.847, green: 0.698, blue: 0.82)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.847, green: 0.698, blue: 0.82, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="pink_lavender">#FFD8B2D1</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFD8B2D1)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #D8B2D1 (11.21:1, AAA). Here is how #D8B2D1 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.87:1 on white
APCA Lc 35
Fails AATry #8F6C89
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
11.21:1 on black
APCA Lc -67
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 Pink Lavender

#D8B2D1 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, #D8B2D1 and #B2D8B9 look much alike. With tritanopia, #D8B2D1 and #D1D8B2 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 Pink Lavender

A Pantone textile color

Pink Lavender is a Pantone color for fabrics, number 14-3207 in its textile list. Wikipedia shows it as #DBB2D1. This site uses #D8B2D1, which is only three steps lower in red, so you will not see the difference. The ISCC-NBS system calls it a grayish purplish pink.

It sits between pink and the flower color lavender, which was first used as a color name in English in 1705. The Wikipedia article on lavender lists it with other lavender shades. Next to it, thistle is a little cooler and grayer, and lavender pink is brighter and pinker.

Pink Lavender in a user interface

A sample app screen with #D8B2D1 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #D8B2D1 as it is. On the light theme, #D8B2D1 is too hard to read as text (1.87:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #8F6C89 there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Pink Lavender

These schemes turn the hue of #D8B2D1 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#D8B2D1#B2D8B9

Analogous

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

Open palette
#CCB2D8this#D8B2D1#D8B2BE

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#D8B2D1#D1D8B2#B2D1D8

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#D8B2D1#BED8B2#B2D8CC

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#D8B2D1#D8B9B2#B2D8B9#B2D1D8

Square

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

Open palette
this#D8B2D1#D8CCB2#B2D8B9#B2BED8

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#44223E#7B3E70#AE5E9F#C995C0#E5CCE1

Gradients with Pink Lavender

Four CSS gradients made from #D8B2D1. 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, #F7EFF6, #D8B2D1);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #D8B2D1, #3B2F39);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #CCB2D8, #D8B2D1, #D8B2BE);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #D8B2D1, #D5C5C2, #D1D8B2);

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Shades, tints and tones of Pink 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)

Pink Lavender sits at step 300. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF2FC
  2. 100
    F9E6F5
  3. 200
    EBD2E6
  4. 300
    D8B2D1
  5. 400
    B996B3
  6. 500
    9C7996
  7. 600
    815F7B
  8. 700
    684A63
  9. 800
    52394E
  10. 900
    3C2939
  11. 950
    231921

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #D8B2D1 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 3015 Light pink#E1A6AD, close (ΔE 5.0)Tailwind CSSpink-300 #F9A8D4, close (ΔE 5.5)CSS color namesthistle #D8BFD8, very close (ΔE 3.2)

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.