Thistle

#ab9ab4

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 muted. 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 #ab9ab4, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ab9ab4

RGB171, 154, 180

HSL279, 15%, 65%

HSV279, 14%, 71%

CMYK5%, 14%, 0%, 29%

Lab65.8, 11.14, -11.2

XYZ36.59, 35.06, 48.02

Decimal11246260

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone666 C

Shades of thistle

#9d89a7 #8e779a #7f688b #6f5b7a #5f4e69 #4f4157 #403446 #302734 #201a23 #100d12

Tints of thistle

#b3a3bb #baacc1 #c2b5c8 #c9becf #d1c7d6 #d8d0dc #e0dae3 #e7e3ea #efecf1 #f6f5f7

Colors that go with thistle

Complementary#a3b49a Analogous#9e9ab4 Analogous#b49ab0 Triadic#b4ab9a Triadic#9ab4ab Split complementary#b0b49a Split complementary#9ab49e

Thistle in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 5, 14, 0, 29.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ab9ab4 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

5 14 0 29

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

9 17 4 35

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 #ab9ab4 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ab9ab4; }
.text { color: #ab9ab4; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ab9ab4; }

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 #ab9ab4 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ab9ab4 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 #ab9ab4 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 #ab9ab4 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

Here is how the numbers for #ab9ab4 are worked out. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.