Thistle

#eec7ff

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

Thistle falls in the purple range, pale and vivid. Purples like this signal creativity and a premium feel. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Thistle color values

Every conversion for #eec7ff, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#eec7ff

RGB238, 199, 255

HSL282, 100%, 89%

HSV282, 22%, 100%

CMYK7%, 22%, 0%, 0%

Lab85.12, 23.56, -22.31

XYZ73.73, 66.24, 103.51

Decimal15648767

Web safe#ffccff

Pantone530 C

Shades of thistle

#e19dff #d472ff #c748ff #bb1eff #a900f2 #8b00c8 #6e009e #500073 #330049 #15001f

Tints of thistle

#f0cfff #f3d6ff #f5deff #f6e2ff #f7e6ff #faedff

Colors that go with thistle

Complementary#d8ffc7 Analogous#d2c7ff Analogous#ffc7f4 Triadic#ffeec7 Triadic#c7ffee Split complementary#f4ffc7 Split complementary#c7ffd2

Thistle in print

In print it lays down as a whisper of ink, so keep it off small text where it can vanish. The cmyk build is 7, 22, 0, 0.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #eec7ff on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

7 22 0 0

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

10 24 4 6

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

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 #eec7ff straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #eec7ff; }
.text { color: #eec7ff; }
.border { border: 2px solid #eec7ff; }

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 #eec7ff against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #eec7ff 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 #eec7ff 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 #eec7ff 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 #eec7ff 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.