Lavender hex code

Lavender

#e6e6fa
hex#e6e6fa
rgbrgb(230, 230, 250)
hslhsl(240, 67%, 94%)
oklchoklch(0.931 0.027 285.9)
Relative luminance 0.8032

Lavender is a very pale neutral — #e6e6fa, rgb(230, 230, 250) — with just enough chroma (0.027) to read as a colour rather than a grey. The colours that go with lavender are Charcoal, Amber and Blue — each with the reason below, and the real palettes that pair them. It fails AA as text on white (1.23:1) but passes on black at 17.06:1 — a dark-mode colour, or a fill with dark type on it. 1 curated palette is built around it.

Colors that go with Lavender

Charcoal, Amber and Blue lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use Lavender

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#fafae5

#e5f0fa · #f0e5fa

#fae5e5 · #e5fae5

Split-complementary

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#faf0e5 · #f0fae5

#fae5f0 · #fafae5 · #e5faf0

Contrast

Lavender as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.23:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6666e1 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #3f3fd9 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #666666 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (7.2:1)
Aaon black
17.06:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with Lavender as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

Lavender reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around Lavender
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

›analyze #e6e6fa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e6e6fa-a19cc4-df994e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md