Thistle

#bca7cd

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

This is Thistle, a muted purple at 273 degrees. Purples like this signal creativity and a premium feel. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Thistle color values

Every conversion for #bca7cd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#bca7cd

RGB188, 167, 205

HSL273, 28%, 73%

HSV273, 19%, 80%

CMYK8%, 19%, 0%, 20%

Lab71.38, 14.74, -16.54

XYZ45.58, 42.74, 63.6

Decimal12363725

Web safe#cc99cc

Pantone2635 C

Shades of thistle

#ab91c1 #9b7bb4 #8a66a8 #795596 #684980 #563d6b #443055 #33243f #211729 #100b14

Tints of thistle

#c2afd1 #c8b6d6 #cebeda #d3c6de #d9cde3 #dfd5e7 #e5ddeb #ebe4f0 #f1ecf4 #f6f4f9

Colors that go with thistle

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Thistle in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 8, 19, 0, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #bca7cd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

8 19 0 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

11 21 4 26

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 #bca7cd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #bca7cd; }
.text { color: #bca7cd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #bca7cd; }

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 #bca7cd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #bca7cd 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 #bca7cd 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 #bca7cd 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 #bca7cd is computed, not guessed. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.