What two colors make lavender?

Chromilla's acrylic recipe uses 3 tubes rather than two: 84% Titanium White, 12% Ultramarine Blue and 4% Alizarin Crimson. Titanium White leads the mix. Chromilla's model predicts an 81% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

How do you make lavender paint lighter without losing the hue?

Lighten in small steps and compare against the target each time. Chromilla's palette struggles with a lighter lavender (#D3C0F0) in acrylic: Chromilla's model predicts a 73% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

Why does lavender look different when acrylic dries?

Acrylic binder looks milky while wet and clears as it dries, so the dried film reads darker. Chromilla's model applies a 10% value shift for acrylic, so the wet mix #B0A6CB is predicted to dry to about #A195B5. Dries slightly darker and a touch warmer.

What is the hex code for lavender?

Chromilla uses #B9A7D6 as the target for lavender. The acrylic recipe is predicted to dry to about #A195B5.

Can I mix lavender without black?

Yes. Chromilla's acrylic recipe uses no black: 84% Titanium White, 12% Ultramarine Blue and 4% Alizarin Crimson.

How to mix

Lavender paint in acrylic, oil and watercolor, compared

Real pigment ratios for lavender (#B9A7D6) in acrylic, oil and watercolor. The recipes below come straight from Chromilla’s mixer, calibrated to real manufacturer paint data.

Quick answer

To mix lavender (#B9A7D6) in acrylic (oil and watercolor are compared below), use 84% Titanium White, 12% Ultramarine Blue and 4% Alizarin Crimson. That falls short: Chromilla's model predicts an 81% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out. Try the mixer with your own tubes. Chromilla is a web-based paint color mixer that turns any color, from a photo, the camera or a hex code, into exact paint-tube ratios for acrylic, oil and watercolor, using Kubelka-Munk pigment mixing and aiming at the color after it dries.

Lavender in acrylic, oil and watercolor, side by side (dry match by Chromilla's color model, not a measured paint-out)
Medium	Tubes and parts	Predicted dry match	Drying
Acrylic	84% Titanium White, 12% Ultramarine Blue and 4% Alizarin Crimson	81%	Dries slightly darker and a touch warmer.
Oil	84% Titanium White, 12% Ultramarine Blue and 4% Alizarin Crimson	91%	Dries true to color.
Watercolor	84% Titanium White, 12% Ultramarine Blue and 4% Alizarin Crimson	84%	Dries slightly darker and a touch cooler.

How we calculated this: Kubelka-Munk pigment mixing, then a per-medium dry shift, scored with CIEDE2000. Method and accuracy benchmark. Last checked August 2026.

Terms used here: Dry shift, Value, Kubelka-Munk, Delta E (dE2000), Transparency, Pigment code, Tint.

Target color

Lavender

#B9A7D6

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Recipes by medium

Checked August 2026

Generic pigment ratios, the same ones the Chromilla mixer solves for. Open the mixer to swap in your own brand and tubes.

acrylic

Pigment recipe

81% when dry

Wet mix

#B0A6CB

1. Titanium White (PW6)84%
2. Ultramarine Blue (PB29)12%
3. Alizarin Crimson (PR83)4%

Dry-down

Dries slightly darker and a touch warmer.

oil

Pigment recipe

91% when dry

Wet mix

#B0A6CB

1. Titanium White (PW6)84%
2. Ultramarine Blue (PB29)12%
3. Alizarin Crimson (PR83)4%

Dry-down

Dries true to color.

watercolour

Pigment recipe

84% when dry

Wet mix

#B0A6CB

1. Titanium White (PW6)84%
2. Ultramarine Blue (PB29)12%
3. Alizarin Crimson (PR83)4%

Dry-down

Dries slightly darker and a touch cooler.

Common mistakes when mixing lavender

Lavender is a pale violet, and violets are unusually sensitive to which red and which blue go into them, some pairs give a clean violet, others give mud. Ultramarine with a quinacridone red or violet tends to stay clean; a cadmium red with the same blue usually doesn't. If your lavender reads brownish instead of soft purple, the red in your mix is probably too warm or too opaque for the job.

Exact single-medium recipes

Straight-to-the-ratio versions of lavender in each medium, from the Chromilla mix library.

Why the three mediums differ for lavender

acrylic carries a 10% value shift on drying in Chromilla's model (dries slightly darker and a touch warmer), so the acrylic mix is predicted to dry to #A195B5. It is the weakest fit here: chromilla's model predicts an 81% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.
oil dries true to color in Chromilla's model, so the oil mix is predicted to dry to #B0A6CB.
watercolor carries a 8% value shift on drying in Chromilla's model (dries slightly darker and a touch cooler), so the watercolor mix is predicted to dry to #A199BD. It is the weakest fit here: chromilla's model predicts an 84% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.
In watercolor the paper is the white, so lighter versions come from adding water rather than white paint.

Acrylic recipe in detail

Lavender in acrylic: tube ratios, and ml for a 100 ml batch
Paint	Pigment	Share	100 ml batch
Titanium White	PW6	84%	84 ml
Ultramarine Blue	PB29	12%	12 ml
Alizarin Crimson	PR83	4%	4 ml

Variations on Lavender (acrylic)

Each variation is its own target (lighter and darker move OKLCH lightness by 0.08; warmer and cooler turn the hue 12 degrees toward red or blue), solved fresh.

Lighter Lavender

#D3C0F0

Not a confident recipe: the closest mix is 91% Titanium White, 6% Ultramarine Blue and 3% Alizarin Crimson, and chromilla's model predicts a 73% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

Darker Lavender

#A08EBC

9 parts Titanium White, 2 parts Ultramarine Blue and 1 part Alizarin Crimson. Chromilla's model predicts an 85% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

Warmer Lavender

#C1A4D0

Not a confident recipe: the closest mix is 85% Titanium White, 9% Ultramarine Blue and 6% Alizarin Crimson, and chromilla's model predicts an 81% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

Cooler Lavender

#B0AADA

Not a confident recipe: the closest mix is 83% Titanium White, 14% Ultramarine Blue and 3% Alizarin Crimson, and chromilla's model predicts an 82% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.

Lavender questions

What two colors make lavender?: Chromilla's acrylic recipe uses 3 tubes rather than two: 84% Titanium White, 12% Ultramarine Blue and 4% Alizarin Crimson. Titanium White leads the mix. Chromilla's model predicts an 81% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.
How do you make lavender paint lighter without losing the hue?: Lighten in small steps and compare against the target each time. Chromilla's palette struggles with a lighter lavender (#D3C0F0) in acrylic: Chromilla's model predicts a 73% dry match against the target, scored against its own color model, not a measured paint-out.
Why does lavender look different when acrylic dries?: Acrylic binder looks milky while wet and clears as it dries, so the dried film reads darker. Chromilla's model applies a 10% value shift for acrylic, so the wet mix #B0A6CB is predicted to dry to about #A195B5. Dries slightly darker and a touch warmer.
What is the hex code for lavender?: Chromilla uses #B9A7D6 as the target for lavender. The acrylic recipe is predicted to dry to about #A195B5.
Can I mix lavender without black?: Yes. Chromilla's acrylic recipe uses no black: 84% Titanium White, 12% Ultramarine Blue and 4% Alizarin Crimson.

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