A great many — L is one of the richest letters for color names, thanks to the large "Light…" and "Lavender…" families. This page lists 184 notable L-color names, drawn from the CSS named-color list, Crayola, Pantone, the xkcd Color Survey, pigment and dye history, and brand and team palettes. Around twenty CSS named-color keywords start with L — among them lavender, lawngreen, lemonchiffon, lightblue, lightcoral, lime, limegreen, and linen.

Several stand out. Lapis Lazuli gave the world ultramarine — history's most precious blue pigment, ground from a stone mined in Afghanistan and so costly that it was often saved for the most important passages, especially the Virgin Mary's robes. Lavender and Lilac are the classic pale violets named after the flowers. Lime is the CSS name for pure, full-intensity green. Lincoln Green is a historic English dyed cloth long associated in legend with Robin Hood. And Living Coral was Pantone's Color of the Year for 2019.

It surprises many people. In the W3C CSS named-color list, lime (#00FF00) is pure, full-intensity green — the green primary of the sRGB color space, with the green channel at maximum and red and blue at zero. It is one of the most saturated greens a screen can display. The citrus-fruit "lime" most people picture — a softer yellow-green — is closer to colors like Lime Green or Key Lime on this page. The CSS name comes from the X11 color set, not from the fruit's exact shade.

Lapis lazuli is a semi-precious stone — mainly the blue mineral lazurite, flecked with white calcite and glittering golden pyrite — mined for thousands of years at Badakhshan in present-day Afghanistan. When painstakingly ground and purified, it produced ultramarine ("beyond the sea"), the most brilliant and most expensive blue pigment in history. In Renaissance Europe its cost rivaled gold, so painters often saved it for the most important passages — especially the robes of the Virgin Mary. The hex shown here is a digital reference for the stone's blue, not the pigment's full range.

Two reasons. First, the CSS named-color list itself includes a large set of "light" variants — lightblue, lightcoral, lightcyan, lightgreen, lightpink, lightsalmon, lightseagreen, lightskyblue, lightsteelblue, lightyellow, and more. Second, community color surveys like xkcd's collected many everyday "light X" names. Because they span the whole spectrum, the "Light…" colors here are filed across many shade families by their actual hue — for example the CSS lightcoral reads as a red, not an orange, and several "light cyan/teal" names read as green.

It varies by source. The roughly twenty CSS named L-colors (lavender, lime, linen, lightblue, lightcoral, and the rest) are fixed exactly by the W3C CSS Color Module specification and render identically in every browser. University colors like LSU Purple (PANTONE 268 C) and LSU Gold (PANTONE 123 C) come from official brand guidelines. Pantone references like Living Coral (PANTONE 16-1546, the 2019 Color of the Year) are sRGB approximations of physical swatches. For pigment- and dye-named colors (Lapis Lazuli, Lincoln Green) and the many xkcd-survey names, the values are widely circulated digital references rather than fixed standards.