Linen

#dfd4d1

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

Linen lands in the red band, light and muted. Light reds like this land in beauty, food and lifestyle branding. Cool greens and deep navies calm it down, while warm creams let it stay the loudest thing on the page.

Linen color values

Every conversion for #dfd4d1, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dfd4d1

RGB223, 212, 209

HSL13, 18%, 85%

HSV13, 6%, 87%

CMYK0%, 5%, 6%, 13%

Lab85.69, 3.27, 2.82

XYZ65.48, 67.38, 69.88

Decimal14669009

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone5315 C

Shades of linen

#cfbeb9 #bea8a2 #ae928a #9d7b72 #88685f #71564e #59443e #41322d #2a201d #120e0d

Tints of linen

#e4dbd8 #ebe5e3 #f3efed

Colors that go with linen

Complementary#d1dcdf Analogous#dfd1d5 Analogous#dfdbd1 Triadic#d1dfd4 Triadic#d4d1df Split complementary#d1dfdb Split complementary#d1d5df

Linen 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, 5, 6, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dfd4d1 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 5 6 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 9 10 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.

Linen in css

Copy #dfd4d1 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dfd4d1; }
.text { color: #dfd4d1; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dfd4d1; }

How linen looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Linen and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #dfd4d1 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dfd4d1 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Linen on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #dfd4d1 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn linen into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #dfd4d1 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 linen, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #dfd4d1 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.