Thistle

#f5ccf6

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

This is Thistle, a strong pink at 299 degrees. Pinks like this read soft and contemporary. It works with sage and olive for balance, or with cream for a gentle palette.

Thistle color values

Every conversion for #f5ccf6, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#f5ccf6

RGB245, 204, 246

HSL299, 70%, 88%

HSV299, 17%, 96%

CMYK0%, 17%, 0%, 4%

Lab86.63, 21.48, -15.2

XYZ75.88, 69.25, 96.56

Decimal16108790

Web safe#ffccff

Pantone250 C

Shades of thistle

#eea8f0 #e785e9 #e061e3 #d93ddd #c824cc #a51ea9 #821785 #5f1161 #3c0b3e #1a051a

Tints of thistle

#f6d3f7 #f8daf9 #f9def9 #fae5fa #fbe9fb #fcf0fc

Colors that go with thistle

Complementary#cdf6cc Analogous#e0ccf6 Analogous#f6cce2 Triadic#f6f5cc Triadic#ccf6f5 Split complementary#e2f6cc Split complementary#ccf6e0

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 0, 17, 0, 4.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #f5ccf6 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 17 0 4

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 20 4 10

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.

Thistle in css

Copy #f5ccf6 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #f5ccf6; }
.text { color: #f5ccf6; }
.border { border: 2px solid #f5ccf6; }

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 #f5ccf6 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #f5ccf6 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 #f5ccf6 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 #f5ccf6 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 #f5ccf6 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.