Thistle

#f0cbff

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 #f0cbff, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#f0cbff

RGB240, 203, 255

HSL283, 100%, 90%

HSV283, 20%, 100%

CMYK6%, 20%, 0%, 0%

Lab86.23, 22.07, -20.6

XYZ75.34, 68.46, 103.85

Decimal15780863

Web safe#ffccff

Pantone530 C

Shades of thistle

#e4a0ff #d776ff #cb4bff #bf20ff #ae00f4 #8f00ca #71009f #530074 #340049 #16001f

Tints of thistle

#f2d2ff #f4d9ff #f6dfff #f7e3ff #f9eaff

Colors that go with thistle

Complementary#daffcb Analogous#d6cbff Analogous#ffcbf4 Triadic#fff0cb Triadic#cbfff0 Split complementary#f4ffcb Split complementary#cbffd6

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 6, 20, 0, 0.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #f0cbff on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

6 20 0 0

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

10 22 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 #f0cbff straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #f0cbff; }
.text { color: #f0cbff; }
.border { border: 2px solid #f0cbff; }

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 #f0cbff against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #f0cbff 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 #f0cbff 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 #f0cbff 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 #f0cbff 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 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.