Beige

#dce5cc

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

Beige is a light green that feels soft. Light greens like this signal fresh, natural and wellness. It works beside earthy oranges for contrast, or with other greens for a calm monochrome.

Beige color values

Every conversion for #dce5cc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dce5cc

RGB220, 229, 204

HSL82, 32%, 85%

HSV82, 11%, 90%

CMYK4%, 0%, 11%, 10%

Lab89.68, -7.38, 11.16

XYZ68.43, 75.61, 68.11

Decimal14476748

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone621 C

Shades of beige

#cad7b1 #b7ca97 #a5bc7c #93af61 #7e9a4e #687f41 #536433 #3d4a26 #272f18 #11140a

Tints of beige

#dfe7d0 #e1e9d4 #e4ebd8 #e7eddc #e9efe0 #ecf1e4 #eff3e7 #f2f5eb #f4f7ef #f7f9f3

Colors that go with beige

Complementary#d5cce5 Analogous#e5e2cc Analogous#d0e5cc Triadic#ccdce5 Triadic#e5ccdc Split complementary#ccd0e5 Split complementary#e2cce5

Beige in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 4, 0, 11, 10.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dce5cc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

4 0 11 10

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

8 4 14 16

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Beige in css

Copy #dce5cc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dce5cc; }
.text { color: #dce5cc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dce5cc; }

How beige looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Beige and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #dce5cc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dce5cc against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Beige on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #dce5cc sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around beige? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn beige into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #dce5cc 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 beige, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #dce5cc are worked out. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.