Lilac (color)

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Lilac is a color that is a pale shade of violet. It might also be described as light purple. The actual color of the flower of some Lilac flowers is a much deeper color, equivalent to the color shown below as deep lilac.

Lilac (#C8A2C8)

1 Lilac
2 Deep Lilac
3 Artistic Representation of Lilac
4 See also

[edit] Lilac

Lilac
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Hex triplet		#C8A2C8
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(200, 162, 200)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(300°, 19%, 78%)
Source		BF2S Color Guide
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color lilac.

[edit] Deep Lilac

Deep Lilac
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Hex triplet		#9955BB
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(153, 85, 187)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(270°, 68%, 67%)
Source		Internet
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color deep lilac is displayed at right.

This deeper shade of lilac is the color usually described as lilac in Europe, as opposed to the paler color lilac shown above.

The source of this color is the German language Wikipedia article on the color violet, where it is described as lilac and is described as being a shade of violet.

[edit] Artistic Representation of Lilac

Image:Anderson Sophie The Time Of The Lilacs.jpg

Sophie Gengembre Anderson: The Time Of The Lilacs.

[edit] See also

List of colors
Lavender
Lilac (plant)
Lilac chaser (illusion of visual perception)

				Shades of violet
Amethyst	Cerise	Eggplant	Fuchsia	Han Purple	Heliotrope	Indigo	Lavender (floral)	Lavender (web)	Lilac	Magenta

Mauve	Mountbatten pink	Orchid	Palatinate Purple	Persian indigo	Purple	Red-violet	Rose	Thistle	Violet	Wisteria