Bisque

#fce0c9

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

Bisque sits in the orange range, pale and vivid. Oranges like this feel warm and approachable in branding. It sits well next to deep blues for contrast, or soft tans for a grounded palette.

Bisque color values

Every conversion for #fce0c9, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#fce0c9

RGB252, 224, 201

HSL27, 89%, 89%

HSV27, 20%, 99%

CMYK0%, 11%, 20%, 1%

Lab90.88, 6.1, 14.78

XYZ77.34, 78.22, 66.28

Decimal16572617

Web safe#ffcccc

Pantone4685 C

Shades of bisque

#fac9a1 #f8b279 #f59b51 #f38429 #e56e0d #bd5b0b #954808 #6d3406 #452104 #1d0e02

Tints of bisque

#fce4d0 #fde9d8 #fdeddf #fef1e7 #fef5ee

Colors that go with bisque

Complementary#c9e5fc Analogous#fcc9cb Analogous#fcfac9 Triadic#c9fce0 Triadic#e0c9fc Split complementary#c9fcf9 Split complementary#c9cbfc

Bisque in print

It is pale enough that on uncoated stock it can read even lighter than on screen. The cmyk build is 0, 11, 20, 1.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #fce0c9 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 11 20 1

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 14 22 7

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.

Bisque in css

Copy #fce0c9 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #fce0c9; }
.text { color: #fce0c9; }
.border { border: 2px solid #fce0c9; }

How bisque looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Bisque and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #fce0c9 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #fce0c9 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Bisque on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #fce0c9 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn bisque into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #fce0c9 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 bisque, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #fce0c9 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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.