Lavender

#c8cbdb

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for lavender, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Lavender sits in the blue band, light and muted. Light blues like this feel trustworthy, common in finance and software. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Lavender color values

Every conversion for #c8cbdb, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#c8cbdb

RGB200, 203, 219

HSL231, 21%, 82%

HSV231, 9%, 86%

CMYK9%, 7%, 0%, 14%

Lab81.9, 2.04, -8.29

XYZ57.96, 60.11, 75.56

Decimal13159387

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone657 C

Shades of lavender

#b1b5cc #999fbc #8288ad #6a729e #596088 #4a5070 #3a3f59 #2b2e41 #1b1e2a #0c0d12

Tints of lavender

#cccfde #d1d3e1 #d5d8e4 #dadce7 #dee0e9 #e3e4ec #e7e8ef #ebecf2 #f0f1f5 #f4f5f8

Colors that go with lavender

Complementary#dbd8c8 Analogous#c8d4db Analogous#cfc8db Triadic#dbc8cb Triadic#cbdbc8 Split complementary#dbcfc8 Split complementary#d4dbc8

Lavender in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 9, 7, 0, 14.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #c8cbdb on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

9 7 0 14

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

12 10 4 20

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Lavender in css

Copy #c8cbdb straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #c8cbdb; }
.text { color: #c8cbdb; }
.border { border: 2px solid #c8cbdb; }

How lavender looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Lavender and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #c8cbdb against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #c8cbdb against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Lavender on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #c8cbdb sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around lavender? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn lavender into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #c8cbdb and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from lavender, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #c8cbdb are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.