Beige

#f3efd7

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

Beige is a pale yellow, airy 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.

Beige color values

Every conversion for #f3efd7, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#f3efd7

RGB243, 239, 215

HSL51, 54%, 90%

HSV51, 12%, 95%

CMYK0%, 2%, 12%, 5%

Lab94.18, -2.65, 12.08

XYZ80.09, 85.69, 76.61

Decimal15986647

Web safe#ffffcc

Pantone5807 C

Shades of beige

#e9e2b6 #dfd595 #d5c874 #ccba53 #bca938 #9b8c2f #7a6e25 #59501b #383311 #181507

Tints of beige

#f4f0da #f5f1dc #f5f2df #f6f3e2 #f7f4e4 #f8f5e7 #f9f6e9 #f9f7ec #faf8ef #fbfaf1

Colors that go with beige

Complementary#d7dbf3 Analogous#f3e1d7 Analogous#e9f3d7 Triadic#d7f3ef Triadic#efd7f3 Split complementary#d7e9f3 Split complementary#e1d7f3

Beige in print

At this lightness it prints as a faint wash, best for backgrounds rather than fine type. The cmyk build is 0, 2, 12, 5.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #f3efd7 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 2 12 5

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 6 15 11

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Beige in css

Copy #f3efd7 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #f3efd7; }
.text { color: #f3efd7; }
.border { border: 2px solid #f3efd7; }

How beige looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Beige and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #f3efd7 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #f3efd7 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Beige on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #f3efd7 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around beige? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn beige into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #f3efd7 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 beige, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #f3efd7 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.