Thistle

#fed2ed

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

Thistle sits in the pink band, pale and vivid. 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 #fed2ed, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#fed2ed

RGB254, 210, 237

HSL323, 96%, 91%

HSV323, 17%, 100%

CMYK0%, 17%, 7%, 0%

Lab88.58, 19.74, -7.45

XYZ79.21, 73.28, 90.09

Decimal16700141

Web safe#ffccff

Pantone250 C

Shades of thistle

#fda8dc #fc7dcb #fb53ba #fa28a9 #f20597 #c8047c #9d0362 #730347 #48022d #1e0113

Tints of thistle

#fed8ef #feddf1 #fee3f4 #fee8f6 #ffeef8

Colors that go with thistle

Complementary#d2fee3 Analogous#f9d2fe Analogous#fed2d7 Triadic#edfed2 Triadic#d2edfe Split complementary#d7fed2 Split complementary#d2fef9

Thistle in print

It is pale enough that on uncoated stock it can read even lighter than on screen. The cmyk build is 0, 17, 7, 0.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #fed2ed on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 17 7 0

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 20 10 6

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 #fed2ed straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #fed2ed; }
.text { color: #fed2ed; }
.border { border: 2px solid #fed2ed; }

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 #fed2ed against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #fed2ed 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 #fed2ed 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 #fed2ed 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 #fed2ed 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 value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.