Light pink

#e3acac

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

Light pink lands in the red band, light and soft. 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.

Light pink color values

Every conversion for #e3acac, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e3acac

RGB227, 172, 172

HSL0, 50%, 78%

HSV0, 24%, 89%

CMYK0%, 24%, 24%, 11%

Lab75.34, 20.11, 7.83

XYZ53.88, 48.81, 45.61

Decimal14920876

Web safe#cc9999

Pantone501 C

Shades of light pink

#da9090 #d07575 #c75959 #bc3f3f #a13636 #852d2d #6a2424 #4e1a1a #321111 #170808

Tints of light pink

#e5b3b3 #e8baba #eac1c1 #ecc8c8 #efcfcf #f1d6d6 #f3dddd #f6e4e4 #f8ebeb #faf2f2

Colors that go with light pink

Complementary#ace3e3 Analogous#e3acc8 Analogous#e3c8ac Triadic#ace3ac Triadic#acace3 Split complementary#ace3c8 Split complementary#acc7e3

Light pink in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 24, 24, 11.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e3acac on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 24 24 11

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 26 26 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 read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Light pink in css

Copy #e3acac straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e3acac; }
.text { color: #e3acac; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e3acac; }

How light pink looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Light pink and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #e3acac against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e3acac against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Light pink on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #e3acac sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn light pink into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #e3acac 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 light pink, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #e3acac come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.