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#eeeaf5

a pale, soft violet · cool · closest name: Lavender

Token name suggestion: Frost Thistle

RGB
238, 234, 245
HSL
262°, 36%, 94%
CMYK
3, 5, 0, 4
Luminance
0.8362

#eeeaf5 is a pale soft violet, 262° on the wheel and 71/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (17.72:1). As text it scores 1.18:1 on white — use #8467B6 instead. Nearest name is Lavender, nearest Tailwind family is sky.

hsl(262 36% 94%)rgb(238 234 245)Base step 100AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #eeeaf5 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#eeeaf5
Hue
262°
violet
Saturation
36%
soft
Lightness
94%
pale
Brightness
96%
HSV value
Perceived
93%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8362
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
71/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
17.72:1
Closest name
Lavender
ΔE2000 3.9
Chroma
5.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.943
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
sky
500 · ΔE 34.8
Web-safe
#FFFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue262° of 360°
Saturation36%
Lightness94%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #eeeaf5.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool71% cool

Reads cool. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red22%
Green70%
Blue8%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#eeeaf5
HEX (8-digit)#eeeaf5ff
RGBrgb(238, 234, 245)
RGBArgba(238, 234, 245, 1)
HSLhsl(262, 36%, 94%)
HSV / HSBhsv(262, 4%, 96%)
HWBhwb(262 92% 4%)
CMYKcmyk(3%, 5%, 0%, 4%)
LABlab(93.3 3.3 -4.8)
LCHlch(93.3 5.9 304.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.943 0.015 302.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(81.16, 83.62, 98.23)
Decimal15657717
Display P3color(display-p3 0.933 0.918 0.961)
Web-safe#FFFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #eeeaf5;
background-color: #eeeaf5;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #eeeaf5;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#eeeaf5] bg-[#eeeaf5]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #eeeaf5;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.933, green: 0.918, blue: 0.961)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.933, green: 0.918, blue: 0.961, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#EEEAF5</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFEEEAF5)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFEEEAF5)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(245, 234, 238)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(238, 234, 245)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(238, 234, 245)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 238, 234, 245)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9333f, 0.9176f, 0.9608f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{238,234,245}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #eeeaf5 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #eeeaf5 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#3A2956, #DDD6EB);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #eeeaf5 h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #F7F5F9;
  --brand-100: #eeeaf5;
  --brand-200: #DBD3E8;
  --brand-300: #C1B3DB;
  --brand-400: #A38DC9;
  --brand-500: #8467B7;
  --brand-600: #6F4FA6;
  --brand-700: #5C428A;
  --brand-800: #4A356F;
  --brand-900: #382951;
  --brand-950: #231A33;
  --brand: #eeeaf5;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F7F5FA;
  --brand-border: #D2C8E5;
  --brand-hover: #DAD2E9;
  --brand-pressed: #C7BADE;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1A1424;
    --brand-ink: #DDD6EB;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7F5F9',
        100: '#eeeaf5',
        200: '#DBD3E8',
        300: '#C1B3DB',
        400: '#A38DC9',
        500: '#8467B7',
        600: '#6F4FA6',
        700: '#5C428A',
        800: '#4A356F',
        900: '#382951',
        950: '#231A33',
        DEFAULT: '#eeeaf5',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7F5F9,
  '100': #eeeaf5,
  '200': #DBD3E8,
  '300': #C1B3DB,
  '400': #A38DC9,
  '500': #8467B7,
  '600': #6F4FA6,
  '700': #5C428A,
  '800': #4A356F,
  '900': #382951,
  '950': #231A33,
);
$brand-base: #eeeaf5;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7F5F9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#eeeaf5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DBD3E8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C1B3DB", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#A38DC9", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#8467B7", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#6F4FA6", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#5C428A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#4A356F", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#382951", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#231A33", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#000000", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#000000 on #eeeaf5 · 17.72:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.18:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 17.72:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #eeeaf5 as text scores 1.18:1 on white and 17.72:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #3A2956 at 10.86:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#8467B6 · 4.57:1
AA on white−38% L
#8467B6
The quick fox
#654898 · 7.16:1
AAA on white−50% L
#654898
The quick fox
#eeeaf5 · 17.72:1
AA on blackalready passes
#eeeaf5
The quick fox
#eeeaf5 · 17.72:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#eeeaf5

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #A089C7 is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#eeeaf5 on white: 1.18:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#eeeaf5 on black: 17.72:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #eeeaf5 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #eeeaf5.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.18:1AaAa
Slate 501.13:1AaAa
Slate 1001.08:1AaAa
Slate 2001.04:1AaAa
Slate 3001.25:1AaAa
Slate 4002.16:1AaAa
Slate 5004.02:1AaAa
Slate 6006.40:1AaAa
Slate 7008.74:1AaAa
Slate 80012.35:1AaAa
Slate 90015.07:1AaAa
Black17.72:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E8ECF6
deuteranopia · #E9ECF5
tritanopia · #EDEBED

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #eeeaf5 is pinned to step 100; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F7F5F9
#eeeaf5
#DBD3E8
#C1B3DB
#A38DC9
#8467B7
#6F4FA6
#5C428A
#4A356F
#382951
#231A33
Base = 100Lightest = 50 · #F7F5F9Darkest = 950 · #231A33Text step on white = 500
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.004 302.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.006 302.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.009 302.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.012 302.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.014 302.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.015 302.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.015 302.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.014 302.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.013 302.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.011 302.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.008 302.6);
}

Colors that work with #eeeaf5

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#000000
Black wins here
Surface#F7F5FA
Tinted page background
Border#D2C8E5
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#684B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#84913B
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#3A2956
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F1EEF7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1A1424
Dark-mode background
Hover#DAD2E9
One step down in lightness
Pressed#C7BADE
Two steps down
Disabled#F4F3F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#E8E1F4
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #eeeaf5

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • White text placed on it
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #3A2956
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #A089C7

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

creativepremiummodernimaginative

Violet sits between the warmth of red and the calm of blue, so it reads as inventive without reading as risky. Current shorthand for software craft.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. The high lightness makes it recede — a surface colour rather than a statement.

Worth knowing

Deep violets swallow detail on screens with poor gamma; check it on a cheap laptop panel.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium
  • Weight6/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityReserved

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#F1F5EA
Analogous left#EAEBF5
Analogous right#F3EAF5
Split-complement 1#F5F3EA
Split-complement 2#EBF5EA
Triadic 1#F5EEEA
Triadic 2#EAF5EE
Tetradic#F5EAEB
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°262°

#eeeaf5 sits at 262°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red93.3%
Green91.8%
Blue96.1%
R · 0–255
238
0xee
G · 0–255
234
0xea
B · 0–255
245
0xf5

CMYK percentages

Cyan2.9%
Magenta4.5%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)3.9%

Total ink coverage is 11%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#eeeaf5 text on a black background

contrast 17.72:1

Card sample

#eeeaf5 text on a white background

contrast 1.18:1

Card sample

#eeeaf5 on grey

1.08:1

#eeeaf5 on its own surface

1.09:1

#eeeaf5 on its dark surface

15.15:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #eeeaf5;
Background color
Panel with #eeeaf5 background
background-color: #eeeaf5;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #eeeaf5;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(238, 234, 245, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(238, 234, 245, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #eeeaf5;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #eeeaf5, #F5EAF5);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #eeeaf5, #F5EAF2);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #eeeaf5;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #eeeaf5;
caret-color: #eeeaf5;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #eeeaf5;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F1EEF7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #eeeaf5;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#eeeaf5 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #eeeaf5 over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(238, 234, 245, 0.5)
rgb(238 234 245 / 50%)
#eeeaf580
hsl(262 36% 94% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #eeeaf5 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#eeeaf51a#FDFDFE
20%#eeeaf533#FCFBFD
40%#eeeaf566#F8F7FB
60%#eeeaf599#F5F2F9
80%#eeeaf5cc#F1EEF7

Gradients from #eeeaf5

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #F4F1F8, #eeeaf5 45%, #3A2956);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #eeeaf5, #EBD5E9);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #eeeaf5, #F1F5EA);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F7F5FA 0%, #eeeaf5 45%, #3A2956 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F7F5FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #3A2956 0%, transparent 65%), #eeeaf5;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #eeeaf5

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#eeeaf5 in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
Creative toolsFintechBeautyLuxury
Common UI roles
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
Print note

Very light tints can drop out on uncoated stock; check it at 100% size before signing off.

On screens

Holds up across typical panel gamma. Still worth checking on an uncalibrated laptop, where mid-tones shift most.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 17.72:1.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#eeeaf5, answered

What color is #eeeaf5?

#eeeaf5 is a pale soft violet, closest to Lavender (ΔE2000 3.9). It sits at 262° on the hue wheel with 36% saturation and 94% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #eeeaf5?

rgb(238, 234, 245) — 238 red, 234 green and 245 blue out of 255, or 93.3% / 91.8% / 96.1% by channel.

What is #eeeaf5 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(262, 36%, 94%) and hsv(262, 4%, 96%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #eeeaf5 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8362 and perceived brightness is 93%, so black text on it reaches 17.72:1.

Should I use black or white text on #eeeaf5?

Black. It scores 17.72:1 against #eeeaf5, versus 1.18:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #eeeaf5 accessible on a white background?

#eeeaf5 on white scores 1.18:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #8467B6 to reach 4.5:1, or #654898 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #eeeaf5?

#F1F5EA sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F5F3EA and #EBF5EA, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #eeeaf5?

For interface work: #F7F5FA as the surface, #D2C8E5 for borders, #684B9B for secondary text, #84913B as an accent and #3A2956 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #EAEBF5 and #F3EAF5 stays calm, while #F1F5EA is the loudest partner.

What is #eeeaf5 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(3%, 5%, 0%, 4%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #eeeaf5 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 71 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F2EAF5; nudged cooler, #EAEAF5.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #eeeaf5?

The sky family — its 500 step is #0ea5e9, ΔE2000 34.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #eeeaf5 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #eeeaf5 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#eeeaf5] or text-[#eeeaf5], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #eeeaf5 with 50% opacity?

rgba(238, 234, 245, 0.5), or #eeeaf580 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F7F5FA; over black, #77757B.

Is #eeeaf5 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFFF, ΔE2000 7.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #eeeaf5 mean?

As a violet, it reads creative, premium, modern. Violet sits between the warmth of red and the calm of blue, so it reads as inventive without reading as risky. Current shorthand for software craft. At this moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #eeeaf5?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F4F1F8, #eeeaf5 45%, #3A2956). For more colour, a short hue run to #EBD5E9 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #eeeaf5 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #eeeaf5 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.