Seashell

#ffece4

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

Seashell 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.

Seashell color values

Every conversion for #ffece4, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ffece4

RGB255, 236, 228

HSL18, 100%, 95%

HSV18, 11%, 100%

CMYK0%, 7%, 11%, 0%

Lab94.68, 5.12, 6.18

XYZ85.24, 86.85, 85.67

Decimal16772324

Web safe#ffffcc

Pantone705 C

Shades of seashell

#ffccb7 #ffac8a #ff8c5c #ff6d2f #ff4d02 #d43f00 #a63100 #792400 #4c1600 #1f0900

Colors that go with seashell

Complementary#e4f7ff Analogous#ffe4ea Analogous#fffae4 Triadic#e4ffec Triadic#ece4ff Split complementary#e4fffa Split complementary#e4e9ff

Seashell in print

It is pale enough that on uncoated stock it can read even lighter than on screen. The cmyk build is 0, 7, 11, 0.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ffece4 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 7 11 0

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 10 14 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.

Seashell in css

Copy #ffece4 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ffece4; }
.text { color: #ffece4; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ffece4; }

How seashell looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Seashell and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #ffece4 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ffece4 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Seashell on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ffece4 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn seashell into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ffece4 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 seashell, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #ffece4 are worked out. 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.