Silver

#bebfc5

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

Silver carries almost no chroma, so it works as a neutral. Neutrals like this hold a palette together quietly. Almost anything sits on top of it, which is what makes a good neutral useful.

Silver color values

Every conversion for #bebfc5, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#bebfc5

RGB190, 191, 197

HSL231, 6%, 76%

HSV231, 4%, 77%

CMYK4%, 3%, 0%, 23%

Lab77.42, 0.79, -3.14

XYZ49.94, 52.24, 60.27

Decimal12500933

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone537 C

Shades of silver

#abacb4 #989aa3 #858793 #737581 #62646e #52535c #414249 #303136 #1f2023 #0e0f10

Tints of silver

#c9cacf #d4d5d9 #dfe0e3 #eaebed #f6f6f7

Colors that go with silver

Complementary#c5c4be Analogous#bec3c5 Analogous#c1bec5 Triadic#c5bebf Triadic#bfc5be Split complementary#c5c1be Split complementary#c3c5be

Silver in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 4, 3, 0, 23.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #bebfc5 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

4 3 0 23

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

8 7 4 29

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.

Silver in css

Copy #bebfc5 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #bebfc5; }
.text { color: #bebfc5; }
.border { border: 2px solid #bebfc5; }

How silver looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Silver and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #bebfc5 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #bebfc5 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Silver on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #bebfc5 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn silver into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #bebfc5 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 silver, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #bebfc5 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.