Pink

#ac8baa

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. Deep greens and teals opposite it give contrast and warm neutrals keep it soft.

Pink color values

Every conversion for #ac8baa, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ac8baa

RGB172, 139, 170

HSL304, 17%, 61%

HSV304, 19%, 67%

CMYK0%, 19%, 1%, 33%

Lab61.77, 17.96, -11.59

XYZ33.5, 30.14, 42.08

Decimal11307946

Web safe#999999

Pantone521 C

Shades of pink

#a07b9e #956a92 #845f82 #745372 #644762 #533c52 #433042 #332432 #221822 #120d12

Tints of pink

#b496b2 #bba0b9 #c3abc1 #cab5c9 #d2c0d1 #d9cad8 #e1d5e0 #e8dfe8 #f0eaf0 #f8f5f7

Colors that go with pink

Complementary#8bac8d Analogous#9e8bac Analogous#ac8b99 Triadic#aaac8b Triadic#8baaac Split complementary#9aac8b Split complementary#8bac9e

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, 19, 1, 33.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ac8baa on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 19 1 33

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 21 5 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 #ac8baa straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ac8baa; }
.text { color: #ac8baa; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ac8baa; }

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 #ac8baa against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ac8baa 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 #ac8baa 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 #ac8baa 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

The figures for #ac8baa come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.