Beige

#e4e1ca

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 53 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 #e4e1ca, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e4e1ca

RGB228, 225, 202

HSL53, 33%, 84%

HSV53, 11%, 89%

CMYK0%, 1%, 11%, 11%

Lab89.21, -2.86, 11.61

XYZ69.58, 74.61, 66.61

Decimal15000010

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone5807 C

Shades of beige

#d7d2b0 #c9c395 #bcb47b #aea560 #99904e #7e7740 #645e33 #494525 #2f2c18 #14130a

Tints of beige

#e6e3ce #e8e6d2 #eae8d6 #eceada #eeeddf #f1efe3 #f3f1e7 #f5f4eb #f7f6ef #f9f8f3

Colors that go with beige

Complementary#cacde4 Analogous#e4d4ca Analogous#dae4ca Triadic#cae4e1 Triadic#e1cae4 Split complementary#cadae4 Split complementary#d4cae4

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 0, 1, 11, 11.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e4e1ca on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 1 11 11

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 5 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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Beige in css

Copy #e4e1ca straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e4e1ca; }
.text { color: #e4e1ca; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e4e1ca; }

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 #e4e1ca against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e4e1ca 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 #e4e1ca 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 #e4e1ca 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 #e4e1ca are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.