Thistle

#e4afca

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. Deep greens and teals opposite it give contrast and warm neutrals keep it soft.

Thistle color values

Every conversion for #e4afca, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e4afca

RGB228, 175, 202

HSL329, 50%, 79%

HSV329, 23%, 89%

CMYK0%, 23%, 11%, 11%

Lab76.93, 23.5, -6.21

XYZ57.99, 51.42, 62.75

Decimal14987210

Web safe#cc99cc

Pantone672 C

Shades of thistle

#db93b8 #d177a5 #c85b93 #be4080 #a2376d #862d5b #6a2448 #4f1b35 #331122 #17080f

Tints of thistle

#e6b6ce #e8bcd3 #ebc3d7 #edcadc #efd0e0 #f1d7e4 #f4dee9 #f6e4ed #f8ebf2 #faf2f6

Colors that go with thistle

Complementary#afe4c9 Analogous#e4afe4 Analogous#e4afb0 Triadic#cae4af Triadic#afcae4 Split complementary#b0e4af Split complementary#afe4e4

Thistle in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 23, 11, 11.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e4afca on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 23 11 11

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 25 14 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.

Thistle in css

Copy #e4afca straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e4afca; }
.text { color: #e4afca; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e4afca; }

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 #e4afca against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e4afca 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 #e4afca 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 #e4afca 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

Every value on this page for #e4afca is computed, not guessed. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.