Tomato

#cd7256

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

This is Tomato, a soft red sitting at 14 degrees on the wheel. A mid red this confident is a natural for retail signage and calls to action. It pairs naturally with muted greens across the wheel and with off white for breathing room.

Tomato color values

Every conversion for #cd7256, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#cd7256

RGB205, 114, 86

HSL14, 54%, 57%

HSV14, 58%, 80%

CMYK0%, 44%, 58%, 20%

Lab57.74, 33.14, 31.17

XYZ32.87, 25.69, 12.03

Decimal13464150

Web safe#cc6666

Pantone171 C

Shades of tomato

#c76142 #b85537 #a44c31 #90432b #7c3925 #68301f #542719 #401d13 #2c140d #180b07

Tints of tomato

#d27f66 #d68c75 #db9985 #dfa694 #e4b3a4 #e9c0b3 #edcdc3 #f2dad2 #f6e7e2 #fbf4f1

Colors that go with tomato

Complementary#56b1cd Analogous#cd5675 Analogous#cdae56 Triadic#56cd72 Triadic#7256cd Split complementary#56cdae Split complementary#5675cd

Tomato in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 44, 58, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #cd7256 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 44 58 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 44 57 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.

Tomato in css

Copy #cd7256 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #cd7256; }
.text { color: #cd7256; }
.border { border: 2px solid #cd7256; }

How tomato looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Tomato and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #cd7256 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #cd7256 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Tomato on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #cd7256 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn tomato into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #cd7256 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 tomato, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #cd7256 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. 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.