Beige

#cecdad

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

Beige is a light yellow, soft at this saturation. Yellows like this read optimistic and energetic. Pair it with dark neutrals so it stays legible, or with violet for a high energy scheme.

Beige color values

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

Hex#cecdad

RGB206, 205, 173

HSL58, 25%, 74%

HSV58, 16%, 81%

CMYK0%, 0%, 16%, 19%

Lab81.73, -5.03, 16.09

XYZ54.83, 59.8, 48.19

Decimal13553069

Web safe#cccc99

Pantone5793 C

Shades of beige

#c1c097 #b4b281 #a7a56c #96945a #807f4d #6a6940 #555433 #3f3e26 #292818 #13130b

Tints of beige

#d6d6bb #dbdac2 #e3e3d0 #ecebdf #f4f4ed #f8f8f4

Colors that go with beige

Complementary#adaece Analogous#cebdad Analogous#bfcead Triadic#adcecd Triadic#cdadce Split complementary#adbece Split complementary#bdadce

Beige in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 0, 0, 16, 19.

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

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 0 16 19

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 4 19 25

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.

Beige in css

Copy #cecdad straight into your stylesheet.

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

How beige looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Beige and accessibility

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

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

Beige on a business card, sticker and pattern

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

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn beige into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #cecdad 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 beige, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #cecdad 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.