Beige

#dad5ba

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 #dad5ba, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dad5ba

RGB218, 213, 186

HSL51, 30%, 79%

HSV51, 15%, 85%

CMYK0%, 2%, 15%, 15%

Lab85.02, -2.79, 13.97

XYZ61.57, 66.04, 55.96

Decimal14341562

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone5803 C

Shades of beige

#cdc6a2 #c0b789 #b3a971 #a69a59 #8d834c #756d3f #5d5632 #454025 #2c2918 #14120b

Tints of beige

#e0dcc5 #e6e3d1 #eceadc #f0ede2 #f6f4ee

Colors that go with beige

Complementary#babfda Analogous#dac5ba Analogous#cfdaba Triadic#badad5 Triadic#d5bada Split complementary#bacfda Split complementary#c5bada

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, 2, 15, 15.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dad5ba on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 2 15 15

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 6 18 21

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 #dad5ba straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dad5ba; }
.text { color: #dad5ba; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dad5ba; }

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 #dad5ba against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dad5ba 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 #dad5ba 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 #dad5ba 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

Here is how the numbers for #dad5ba are worked out. 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.