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color, pale tone of violet

Key facts

Hex triplet
# C8A2C8
Srgb r g b
(200, 162, 200)
Hsv h s v
(300°, 19%, 78%)
Cielch uv l c h
(71, 32, 308°)
Iscc nbs descriptor
Light purple

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Encyclopedic overview

Lilac is a light shade of purple representing the average color of most lilac flowers. The colors of some lilac flowers may be equivalent to the colors shown below as pale lilac, rich lilac, or deep lilac. However, there are other lilac flowers that are colored red-violet.

The first recorded use of the term lilac as an English color name was in 1775.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “lilac” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.