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Lilac is a color that is a pale violet tone representing the average color of most lilac
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s. 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 ''lilac'' as an
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color name was in 1775. The color "lilac" has an eponymous book published in 2018 by Coloratura Publisher.


Variations


Pale lilac

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).


Bright lilac

The color bright lilac (displayed on the right) is the color labeled ''lilac'' by
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in 1994 as one of the colors in its Magic Scent specialty box of colors.


Rich lilac

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


French lilac

The color French lilac is displayed at right. This color was formulated for use in
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, where a medium dark violet color is desired. The first recorded use of ''French lilac'' as a color name in the
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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.


In nature

The
lilac-breasted roller The lilac-breasted roller (''Coracias caudatus'') is an African bird of the roller family, Coraciidae. It is widely distributed in Southern and Eastern Africa, and is a vagrant to the southern Arabian Peninsula. It prefers open woodland and savan ...
is a member of the roller family of
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s. It is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula.


In culture

Lilac was a color associated with the final stages of
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in English and European cultures.


See also

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*
Lavender ''Lavandula'' (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the Old World and is found in Cape Verde and the Canary Islands, and from Europe across to northern and easte ...
*
Lilac chaser The lilac chaser is a visual illusion, also known as the Pac-Man illusion. It consists of 12 lilac (or pink, rose, or magenta), blurred discs arranged in a circle (like the numbers on a clock), around a small black, central cross on a grey backgr ...
(
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of
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)


References


External links

* {{Color topics Shades of violet