Thistle

#dac5e3

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

This is Thistle, a soft purple at 282 degrees. Purples like this signal creativity and a premium feel. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Thistle color values

Every conversion for #dac5e3, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dac5e3

RGB218, 197, 227

HSL282, 35%, 83%

HSV282, 13%, 89%

CMYK4%, 13%, 0%, 11%

Lab82.05, 12.75, -12.19

XYZ62.74, 60.38, 81.02

Decimal14337507

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone531 C

Shades of thistle

#c9aad6 #b890c9 #a775bd #965bb0 #824a99 #6b3d7f #553064 #3e244a #28172f #110a15

Tints of thistle

#ddcae5 #e3d3ea #e9dcee #ece1f0 #f1eaf5 #f7f3f9

Colors that go with thistle

Complementary#cee3c5 Analogous#cbc5e3 Analogous#e3c5dd Triadic#e3dac5 Triadic#c5e3da Split complementary#dde3c5 Split complementary#c5e3cb

Thistle in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 4, 13, 0, 11.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dac5e3 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

4 13 0 11

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

8 16 4 17

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 #dac5e3 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dac5e3; }
.text { color: #dac5e3; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dac5e3; }

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 #dac5e3 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dac5e3 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 #dac5e3 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 #dac5e3 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 #dac5e3 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.