Lilac is a color that is a pale violet tone representing the average color of most lilac flowers. It can also be described as dark mauve or light blue. 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 English color name was in 1775. The color "lilac" has an eponymous book published in 2018 by Coloratura Publisher.