Beige

#e2e4cd

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

This is Beige, a soft yellow at 65 degrees. Yellows like this read optimistic and energetic. Charcoal and navy give it the contrast it needs and purple across the wheel makes it pop.

Beige color values

Every conversion for #e2e4cd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e2e4cd

RGB226, 228, 205

HSL65, 30%, 85%

HSV65, 10%, 89%

CMYK1%, 0%, 10%, 11%

Lab89.89, -4.61, 10.99

XYZ70.13, 76.06, 68.74

Decimal14869709

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone621 C

Shades of beige

#d3d6b3 #c4c899 #b5ba7f #a5ac64 #909751 #777c43 #5e6235 #454827 #2c2e19 #13140b

Tints of beige

#e4e6d1 #e6e8d5 #e9ead9 #ebecdc #edeee0 #eff0e4 #f2f3e8 #f4f5ec #f6f7f0 #f8f9f3

Colors that go with beige

Complementary#cfcde4 Analogous#e4dbcd Analogous#d7e4cd Triadic#cde2e4 Triadic#e4cde2 Split complementary#cdd7e4 Split complementary#dbcde4

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 1, 0, 10, 11.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e2e4cd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

1 0 10 11

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

5 4 13 17

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.

Beige in css

Copy #e2e4cd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e2e4cd; }
.text { color: #e2e4cd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e2e4cd; }

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 #e2e4cd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e2e4cd against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Beige on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #e2e4cd 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn beige into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #e2e4cd 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 #e2e4cd are worked out. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.