Peru

#ab855f

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

Peru sits in the orange range, mid and soft. A mid orange this warm suits food, sport and friendly brands. Teals and blues on the opposite side of the wheel give it contrast and warm browns keep it earthy.

Peru color values

Every conversion for #ab855f, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ab855f

RGB171, 133, 95

HSL30, 31%, 52%

HSV30, 44%, 67%

CMYK0%, 22%, 44%, 33%

Lab58.28, 9.5, 26.04

XYZ27.25, 26.26, 14.46

Decimal11240799

Web safe#999966

Pantone4645 C

Shades of peru

#9f7953 #906d4b #806243 #71563b #614a33 #523e2b #423323 #33271b #241b13 #140f0b

Tints of peru

#b3906e #bb9c7d #c2a78b #cab29a #d2bea9 #dac9b8 #e1d4c7 #e9dfd6 #f1ebe4 #f9f6f3

Colors that go with peru

Complementary#5f85ab Analogous#ab5f5f Analogous#abab5f Triadic#5fab85 Triadic#855fab Split complementary#5fabab Split complementary#5f5fab

Peru in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 22, 44, 33.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ab855f on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 22 44 33

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 24 44 39

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.

Peru in css

Copy #ab855f straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ab855f; }
.text { color: #ab855f; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ab855f; }

How peru looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Peru and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #ab855f against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ab855f against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Peru on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ab855f sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn peru into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ab855f 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 peru, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #ab855f 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.