Light pink

#e5aba9

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

This is Light pink, a soft red sitting at 2 degrees on the wheel. Light reds like this land in beauty, food and lifestyle branding. Cool greens and deep navies calm it down, while warm creams let it stay the loudest thing on the page.

Light pink color values

Every conversion for #e5aba9, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e5aba9

RGB229, 171, 169

HSL2, 54%, 78%

HSV2, 26%, 90%

CMYK0%, 25%, 26%, 10%

Lab75.23, 20.97, 9.35

XYZ54.04, 48.65, 44.08

Decimal15051689

Web safe#cc9999

Pantone501 C

Shades of light pink

#dc8f8d #d47471 #cb5854 #c13f3a #a53632 #882c29 #6c2321 #501a18 #341110 #170807

Tints of light pink

#e7b2b0 #e9b9b7 #ecc0bf #eec7c6 #f0cecd #f2d5d4 #f4dcdc #f6e3e3 #f9ebea #fbf2f1

Colors that go with light pink

Complementary#a9e3e5 Analogous#e5a9c5 Analogous#e5c9a9 Triadic#a9e5ab Triadic#aba9e5 Split complementary#a9e5c9 Split complementary#a9c5e5

Light pink in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 0, 25, 26, 10.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e5aba9 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 25 26 10

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 27 28 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.

Light pink in css

Copy #e5aba9 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e5aba9; }
.text { color: #e5aba9; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e5aba9; }

How light pink looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Light pink and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #e5aba9 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e5aba9 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Light pink on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #e5aba9 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn light pink into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #e5aba9 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 light pink, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #e5aba9 is computed, not guessed. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.