Pink

#ac87a5

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

Pink is a mid pink, confident and easy to pair. Pinks like this read soft and contemporary. It works with sage and olive for balance, or with cream for a gentle palette.

Pink color values

Every conversion for #ac87a5, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ac87a5

RGB172, 135, 165

HSL311, 18%, 60%

HSV311, 22%, 67%

CMYK0%, 22%, 4%, 33%

Lab60.62, 19.27, -10.48

XYZ32.47, 28.82, 39.45

Decimal11306917

Web safe#999999

Pantone521 C

Shades of pink

#a17799 #95678c #845c7d #74506d #64455e #533a4f #432e3f #332330 #221820 #120d11

Tints of pink

#b492ad #bb9db5 #c3a8be #cab3c6 #d2bece #d9c9d6 #e1d4de #e9dfe7 #f0eaef #f8f4f7

Colors that go with pink

Complementary#87ac8e Analogous#a187ac Analogous#ac8793 Triadic#a5ac87 Triadic#87a5ac Split complementary#93ac87 Split complementary#87aca1

Pink in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 0, 22, 4, 33.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ac87a5 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 22 4 33

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 24 8 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.

Pink in css

Copy #ac87a5 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ac87a5; }
.text { color: #ac87a5; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ac87a5; }

How pink looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Pink and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #ac87a5 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ac87a5 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Pink on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ac87a5 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn pink into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ac87a5 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 pink, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #ac87a5 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.