Light red

#bfb0ae

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

Light red lands in the red band, light and muted. Light reds like this land in beauty, food and lifestyle branding. Cool greens and deep navies calm it down, while warm creams let it stay the loudest thing on the page.

Light red color values

Every conversion for #bfb0ae, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#bfb0ae

RGB191, 176, 174

HSL7, 12%, 72%

HSV7, 9%, 75%

CMYK0%, 8%, 9%, 25%

Lab73.01, 5.01, 2.95

XYZ44.65, 45.18, 46.41

Decimal12562606

Web safe#cc9999

Pantone436 C

Shades of light red

#b09e9b #a18c89 #937976 #816966 #6e5a57 #5c4b49 #493c3a #362c2b #241d1c #110e0e

Tints of light red

#c5b7b5 #cabebc #d0c5c3 #d5ccca #dbd3d2 #e1dad9 #ece7e7 #f2eeee #f7f5f5

Colors that go with light red

Complementary#aebdbf Analogous#bfaeb5 Analogous#bfb9ae Triadic#aebfb0 Triadic#b0aebf Split complementary#aebfb9 Split complementary#aeb5bf

Light red in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 0, 8, 9, 25.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #bfb0ae on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 8 9 25

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 11 12 31

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.

Light red in css

Copy #bfb0ae straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #bfb0ae; }
.text { color: #bfb0ae; }
.border { border: 2px solid #bfb0ae; }

How light red looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Light red and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #bfb0ae against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #bfb0ae against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Light red on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #bfb0ae sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn light red into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #bfb0ae 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 light red, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #bfb0ae are worked out. 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.