Linen

#f0ece5

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

Linen sits in the orange range, pale and muted. Oranges like this feel warm and approachable in branding. Teals and blues on the opposite side of the wheel give it contrast and warm browns keep it earthy.

Linen color values

Every conversion for #f0ece5, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#f0ece5

RGB240, 236, 229

HSL38, 27%, 92%

HSV38, 5%, 94%

CMYK0%, 2%, 5%, 6%

Lab93.53, 0.14, 3.85

XYZ80.07, 84.17, 86.16

Decimal15789285

Web safe#ffffcc

Pantone427 C

Shades of linen

#e0d8c9#d0c3ad#c0af92#b09b76#9e865b#836f4b#67573b#4b3f2b#2f281b#13100b

Colors that go with linen

Complementary#e5e9f0Analogous#f0e7e5Analogous#eff0e5Triadic#e5f0ecTriadic#ece5f0Split complementary#e5eff0Split complementary#e7e5f0

Linen in print

It is pale enough that on uncoated stock it can read even lighter than on screen. The cmyk build is 0, 2, 5, 6.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #f0ece5 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 2 5 6

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 6 9 12

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.

Linen in css

Copy #f0ece5 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #f0ece5; }
.text { color: #f0ece5; }
.border { border: 2px solid #f0ece5; }

How linen looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Linen and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #f0ece5 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #f0ece5 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Linen on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #f0ece5 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around linen? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn linen into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #f0ece5 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 linen, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #f0ece5 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. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.