Thistle

#dfbfd7

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

Thistle is a light pink, relaxed and easy to pair. Light pinks like this suit beauty, baby and lifestyle work. It works with sage and olive for balance, or with cream for a gentle palette.

Thistle color values

Every conversion for #dfbfd7, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dfbfd7

RGB223, 191, 215

HSL315, 33%, 81%

HSV315, 14%, 87%

CMYK0%, 14%, 4%, 13%

Lab80.66, 15.43, -7.77

XYZ61.33, 57.86, 72.22

Decimal14663639

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone531 C

Shades of thistle

#d2a5c7 #c58cb7 #b972a7 #ac5997 #944a82 #7b3d6b #613155 #48243f #2e1728 #140a12

Tints of thistle

#e4c9de #e7cfe1 #e9d4e4 #efdeeb #f1e3ee #f4e9f1 #f6eef4

Colors that go with thistle

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Thistle in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 14, 4, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dfbfd7 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 14 4 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 17 8 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.

Thistle in css

Copy #dfbfd7 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dfbfd7; }
.text { color: #dfbfd7; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dfbfd7; }

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 #dfbfd7 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dfbfd7 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 #dfbfd7 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 #dfbfd7 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

Here is how the numbers for #dfbfd7 are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.