Khaki

#dce18a

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

Khaki falls in the yellow band, light and strong. Yellows like this read optimistic and energetic. Charcoal and navy give it the contrast it needs and purple across the wheel makes it pop.

Khaki color values

Every conversion for #dce18a, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dce18a

RGB220, 225, 138

HSL63, 59%, 71%

HSV63, 39%, 88%

CMYK2%, 0%, 39%, 12%

Lab87.44, -14.5, 41.97

XYZ61.03, 70.9, 34.51

Decimal14475658

Web safe#cccc99

Pantone586 C

Shades of khaki

#d4da70 #ccd355 #c4cd3b #afb72f #969d28 #7d8221 #63681b #4a4d14 #31330d #171806

Tints of khaki

#dfe494 #e2e69f #e5e9a9 #e8ecb3 #ebeebd #eef1c8 #f2f3d2 #f5f6dc #f8f9e7 #fbfbf1

Colors that go with khaki

Complementary#8f8ae1 Analogous#e1ba8a Analogous#b0e18a Triadic#8adce1 Triadic#e18adc Split complementary#8ab0e1 Split complementary#bb8ae1

Khaki in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 2, 0, 39, 12.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dce18a on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

2 0 39 12

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

6 4 40 18

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Khaki in css

Copy #dce18a straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dce18a; }
.text { color: #dce18a; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dce18a; }

How khaki looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Khaki and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #dce18a against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dce18a against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Khaki on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #dce18a sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around khaki? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn khaki into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #dce18a 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 khaki, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #dce18a 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.