Does anyone know how to make colours in hex “lighter”? I don’t.

I use this site and this site to get hex codes. the second one is great because it colour-schemes them, and it does have a “lighten” feature, but it lightens too much. One click of the lighten button makes E4EAFC look white.

E4EAFC is the colour of the boxes, but it looks too dark as the background. Things “blend in” too much.

In other news, I’m not sure what to do about my “characters” hats. They are what people most request for new hats, and currently match “critter” hats in terms of sales.
On the other hand, I’m pretty sure the fact that I make money from selling them pushes them out of the realm of “fanart” and more into “copyright infringment”. o_0
Continue selling hats that look like and are named after characters?
Use names like “White MoonCat” instead of “Artemis from Sailor Moon” and be reduced to cheap knock-off status?
Scrap the line entirely?

Blah.

I’m inclined to keep going, since the whole cosplay “industry” is based on making things that look like specific characters, and from what people say most Japanese companies don’t mind it because it’s still publicity, but that doesn’t make it any more “right”.