Thistle

#ebcbed

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

Thistle sits in the pink band, light and soft. Light pinks like this suit beauty, baby and lifestyle work. It works with sage and olive for balance, or with cream for a gentle palette.

Thistle color values

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

Hex#ebcbed

RGB235, 203, 237

HSL296, 49%, 86%

HSV296, 14%, 93%

CMYK1%, 14%, 0%, 7%

Lab85.24, 17.07, -12.59

XYZ70.9, 66.49, 89.22

Decimal15453165

Web safe#ffccff

Pantone250 C

Shades of thistle

#dfade2 #d48ed8 #c870cd #bc51c3 #a83daf #8b3290 #6e2772 #501d54 #331235 #160817

Tints of thistle

#eed3f0 #f1daf2 #f4e2f5 #f5e6f6 #f8eef9 #faf2fa

Colors that go with thistle

Complementary#cdedcb Analogous#dacbed Analogous#edcbde Triadic#edebcb Triadic#cbedeb Split complementary#deedcb Split complementary#cbedda

Thistle in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 1, 14, 0, 7.

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

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

1 14 0 7

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

5 17 4 13

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 #ebcbed straight into your stylesheet.

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

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

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

The figures for #ebcbed 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. The coated and uncoated cmyk builds differ because uncoated stock absorbs more ink and gains dot, so the same color needs a heavier, slightly duller build on press. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.