Old lace

#ece9dc

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

Old lace is a pale yellow, quiet at this saturation. Yellows like this read optimistic and energetic. Charcoal and navy give it the contrast it needs and purple across the wheel makes it pop.

Old lace color values

Every conversion for #ece9dc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ece9dc

RGB236, 233, 220

HSL49, 30%, 89%

HSV49, 7%, 93%

CMYK0%, 1%, 7%, 7%

Lab92.26, -1.22, 6.66

XYZ76.65, 81.28, 79.36

Decimal15526364

Web safe#ffffcc

Pantone427 C

Shades of old lace

#ddd8c0 #cec6a5 #bfb589 #b0a46e #9e9056 #827747 #675e38 #4b4529 #2f2b1a #14120b

Colors that go with old lace

Complementary#dcdfec Analogous#ece1dc Analogous#e7ecdc Triadic#dcece9 Triadic#e9dcec Split complementary#dce7ec Split complementary#e1dcec

Old lace in print

It is pale enough that on uncoated stock it can read even lighter than on screen. The cmyk build is 0, 1, 7, 7.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ece9dc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 1 7 7

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 5 10 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.

Old lace in css

Copy #ece9dc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ece9dc; }
.text { color: #ece9dc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ece9dc; }

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 #ece9dc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ece9dc against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Old lace on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ece9dc 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 the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn old lace into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ece9dc 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

Every value on this page for #ece9dc is computed, not guessed. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.