Papaya whip

#f8ebca

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

Papaya whip sits in the orange range, pale and strong. 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.

Papaya whip color values

Every conversion for #f8ebca, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#f8ebca

RGB248, 235, 202

HSL43, 77%, 88%

HSV43, 19%, 97%

CMYK0%, 5%, 19%, 3%

Lab93.29, -0.82, 17.61

XYZ79.08, 83.64, 67.85

Decimal16313290

Web safe#ffffcc

Pantone4545 C

Shades of papaya whip

#f3dda5 #eecf80 #e9c15b #e4b336 #d4a01c #af8417 #8a6812 #654c0d #403008 #1b1404

Tints of papaya whip

#f9efd5 #faf2dd #fbf5e4 #fcf8ec

Colors that go with papaya whip

Complementary#cad7f8 Analogous#f8d4ca Analogous#eef8ca Triadic#caf8eb Triadic#ebcaf8 Split complementary#caeef8 Split complementary#d4caf8

Papaya whip in print

At this lightness it prints as a faint wash, best for backgrounds rather than fine type. The cmyk build is 0, 5, 19, 3.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #f8ebca on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 5 19 3

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 9 21 9

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.

Papaya whip in css

Copy #f8ebca straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #f8ebca; }
.text { color: #f8ebca; }
.border { border: 2px solid #f8ebca; }

How papaya whip looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Papaya whip and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #f8ebca against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #f8ebca against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Papaya whip on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #f8ebca sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn papaya whip into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #f8ebca 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 papaya whip, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #f8ebca are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.