Thistle

#ecbae4

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

Thistle sits in the pink band, light and strong. Light pinks like this suit beauty, baby and lifestyle work. It works with sage and olive for balance, or with cream for a gentle palette.

Thistle color values

Every conversion for #ecbae4, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ecbae4

RGB236, 186, 228

HSL310, 57%, 83%

HSV310, 21%, 93%

CMYK0%, 21%, 3%, 7%

Lab81.04, 24.81, -14.06

XYZ66.15, 58.55, 81.21

Decimal15514340

Web safe#ffcccc

Pantone243 C

Shades of thistle

#e49bd8 #db7dcc #d35ec0 #ca3fb4 #b1319d #932882 #742067 #55184b #370f30 #180715

Tints of thistle

#eec0e6 #efc5e8 #f1cbea #f2d0ed #f4d6ef #f5dbf1 #f7e1f3 #f8e6f5 #faecf7 #fbf1fa

Colors that go with thistle

Complementary#baecc2 Analogous#dbbaec Analogous#ecbacb Triadic#e4ecba Triadic#bae4ec Split complementary#cbecba Split complementary#baecdb

Thistle 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, 21, 3, 7.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ecbae4 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 21 3 7

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 23 7 13

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.

Thistle in css

Copy #ecbae4 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ecbae4; }
.text { color: #ecbae4; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ecbae4; }

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 #ecbae4 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ecbae4 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Thistle on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ecbae4 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn thistle into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ecbae4 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

Every value on this page for #ecbae4 is computed, not guessed. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.