Beige

#e4dfbc

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

Beige falls in the yellow band, light and soft. Yellows like this read optimistic and energetic. Pair it with dark neutrals so it stays legible, or with violet for a high energy scheme.

Beige color values

Every conversion for #e4dfbc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e4dfbc

RGB228, 223, 188

HSL52, 43%, 82%

HSV52, 18%, 89%

CMYK0%, 2%, 18%, 11%

Lab88.4, -4.0, 17.79

XYZ67.46, 72.9, 58.09

Decimal14999484

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone5807 C

Shades of beige

#d9d2a1 #cec585 #c3b86a #b8ab4e #9f9340 #847a35 #68602a #4d471f #312e14 #161409

Tints of beige

#e8e4c7 #ede9d2 #f1efdd #f5f4e7 #f8f6ed

Colors that go with beige

Complementary#bcc1e4 Analogous#e4cbbc Analogous#d5e4bc Triadic#bce4df Triadic#dfbce4 Split complementary#bcd5e4 Split complementary#cbbce4

Beige in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 0, 2, 18, 11.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e4dfbc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 2 18 11

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 6 21 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.

Beige in css

Copy #e4dfbc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e4dfbc; }
.text { color: #e4dfbc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e4dfbc; }

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 #e4dfbc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e4dfbc against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Beige on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #e4dfbc 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 the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn beige into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #e4dfbc 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

The figures for #e4dfbc 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.