Thistle

#a89eae

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for thistle, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Thistle falls in the purple range, mid and grey. A mid purple this rich reads creative and a little premium. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Thistle color values

Every conversion for #a89eae, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a89eae

RGB168, 158, 174

HSL278, 9%, 65%

HSV278, 9%, 68%

CMYK3%, 9%, 0%, 32%

Lab66.39, 6.67, -6.99

XYZ36.02, 35.83, 45.06

Decimal11050670

Web safe#999999

Pantone5295 C

Shades of thistle

#998ea0 #8b7d93 #7c6e84 #6c6073 #5d5363 #4d4552 #3e3742 #2e2932 #1f1c21 #100e11

Tints of thistle

#b0a7b5 #b8afbd #bfb8c4 #c7c1cb #cfcad2 #d7d2da #dfdbe1 #e7e4e8 #eeedf0 #f6f5f7

Colors that go with thistle

Complementary#a4ae9e Analogous#a09eae Analogous#ae9eac Triadic#aea89e Triadic#9eaea8 Split complementary#acae9e Split complementary#9eaea0

Thistle in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 3, 9, 0, 32.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a89eae on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

3 9 0 32

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

7 12 4 38

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Thistle in css

Copy #a89eae straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a89eae; }
.text { color: #a89eae; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a89eae; }

How thistle looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Thistle and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #a89eae against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a89eae against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Thistle on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #a89eae sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around thistle? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn thistle into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #a89eae and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from thistle, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #a89eae come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.