Thistle

#baa8b3

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

Thistle sits in the pink band, mid and muted. Pinks like this read soft and contemporary. It works with sage and olive for balance, or with cream for a gentle palette.

Thistle color values

Every conversion for #baa8b3, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#baa8b3

RGB186, 168, 179

HSL323, 12%, 69%

HSV323, 10%, 73%

CMYK0%, 10%, 4%, 27%

Lab70.66, 8.46, -3.28

XYZ42.39, 41.7, 48.46

Decimal12232883

Web safe#cc99cc

Pantone5295 C

Shades of thistle

#ac96a3 #9d8493 #8f7284 #7d6373 #6b5563 #594752 #473841 #352a31 #231c20 #110e10

Tints of thistle

#c0b0ba #c6b7c0 #ccbfc7 #d2c7ce #d9cfd5 #dfd6db #e5dee2 #ebe6e9 #f1edf0 #f7f5f6

Colors that go with thistle

Complementary#a8baaf Analogous#b8a8ba Analogous#baa8aa Triadic#b3baa8 Triadic#a8b3ba Split complementary#aabaa8 Split complementary#a8bab8

Thistle in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 10, 4, 27.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #baa8b3 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 10 4 27

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 13 8 33

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 #baa8b3 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #baa8b3; }
.text { color: #baa8b3; }
.border { border: 2px solid #baa8b3; }

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 #baa8b3 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #baa8b3 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 #baa8b3 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 #baa8b3 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

Every value on this page for #baa8b3 is computed, not guessed. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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.