Give this color a try: #B34066

I took your red and added a white layer with 25% opacity over it.  I got that 
color by using the PhotoShop dropper tool.  The blue resulted in #40408C.

I hope this helps.

Russel

> I have two corporate standard colors: #990033{red} and #000066{blue}.  
> How can I "lighten" these colors while keeping the same hue?  In 
> painting terms how do I adjust the hex values to add white?
> 
> Forgive my limited and possible incorrect understanding of color terms 
> and concepts.  I believe I want different saturations and/or 
> luminocities of these colors or something like that?  I have used 
> several tool that allow me to mix hex values in any way, but none of 
> them seem to allow me to take a color and create different shades of 
> it without changing the hue.  Or at least I don't understand the color 
> concepts enough to get this out of these tools.
> 
> PS:  Now that could be a cool color tool for us non-color developers.  
> Some kind of GUI tool that can mix colors like one would mix paints!
> 
> 
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