Old lace

#e8e4d4

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

Old lace 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.

Old lace color values

Every conversion for #e8e4d4, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e8e4d4

RGB232, 228, 212

HSL48, 30%, 87%

HSV48, 9%, 91%

CMYK0%, 2%, 9%, 9%

Lab90.5, -1.37, 8.28

XYZ72.91, 77.4, 73.38

Decimal15262932

Web safe#ffcccc

Pantone427 C

Shades of old lace

#dad3b9 #cbc29e #bdb183 #aea068 #9b8c53 #807444 #655b36 #4a4327 #2f2b19 #14120b

Tints of old lace

#eae6d7 #ebe8da #edeadd #efece1 #f0eee4 #f2f0e7 #f4f2ea #f5f4ed #f7f6f0 #f9f8f3

Colors that go with old lace

Complementary#d4d8e8 Analogous#e8dad4 Analogous#e2e8d4 Triadic#d4e8e4 Triadic#e4d4e8 Split complementary#d4e2e8 Split complementary#dad4e8

Old lace 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, 2, 9, 9.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e8e4d4 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 2 9 9

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 6 12 15

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.

Old lace in css

Copy #e8e4d4 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e8e4d4; }
.text { color: #e8e4d4; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e8e4d4; }

How old lace looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Old lace and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #e8e4d4 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e8e4d4 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Old lace on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #e8e4d4 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around old lace? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn old lace into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #e8e4d4 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 old lace, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #e8e4d4 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.