5 Color names for "Shades Of Lilac"

Lilac is a color that is a pale violet tone representing the average color of most lilac flowers. The colors of some lilac flowers may be equivalent to pale lilac, rich lilac, or deep lilac. However, there are other lilac flowers that are colored red-violet. The first recorded use of lilac as an English color name was in 1775.

Rich lilac, a rich tone of lilac labeled lilac at Pourpre.com (a popular French color list), is shown in color box. Another name for this color is bright French lilac.

The color bright lilac, labeled as lilac by Crayola, was introduced in 1994 as part of the Magic Scent specialty box of colors.

This color was formulated for use in interior design, where a medium dark violet color is desired. The first recorded use of French lilac as a color name in the English language was in 1814. The normalized color coordinates for french lilac are identical to pomp and power, first recorded as a color name in English in 1950.

Pale lilac is the color represented as lilac in the ISCC-NBS color list. The source of this color is sample 209 in the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955).