Ivory

#dcded7

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

Ivory sits in the green range, light and grey. Light greens like this signal fresh, natural and wellness. It works beside earthy oranges for contrast, or with other greens for a calm monochrome.

Ivory color values

Every conversion for #dcded7, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dcded7

RGB220, 222, 215

HSL77, 10%, 86%

HSV77, 3%, 87%

CMYK1%, 0%, 3%, 13%

Lab88.14, -1.92, 3.18

XYZ67.9, 72.36, 74.68

Decimal14474967

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone5455 C

Shades of ivory

#c9ccc1 #b5b9aa #a2a794 #8e957e #7a806a #656a57 #4f5445 #3a3d33 #252720 #10110e

Tints of ivory

#e4e5e0 #ecede9 #f4f4f2

Colors that go with ivory

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Ivory in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 1, 0, 3, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dcded7 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

1 0 3 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

5 4 7 19

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.

Ivory in css

Copy #dcded7 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dcded7; }
.text { color: #dcded7; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dcded7; }

How ivory looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Ivory and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #dcded7 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dcded7 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Ivory on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #dcded7 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn ivory into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #dcded7 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 ivory, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #dcded7 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.