Thistle

#f6c5ea

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

Thistle is a light pink, soft and easy to pair. 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 #f6c5ea, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#f6c5ea

RGB246, 197, 234

HSL315, 73%, 87%

HSV315, 20%, 96%

CMYK0%, 20%, 5%, 4%

Lab84.72, 23.37, -11.67

XYZ72.82, 65.47, 86.64

Decimal16172522

Web safe#ffccff

Pantone250 C

Shades of thistle

#f0a1dd #eb7ed0 #e55ac3 #e036b6 #cd20a3 #a91a86 #86156a #620f4e #3e0a31 #1a0415

Tints of thistle

#f7c9ec #f7ceed #f8d2ef #f9d6f0 #f9daf2 #fadff3 #fbe3f5 #fbe7f6 #fcebf8 #fdf0f9

Colors that go with thistle

Complementary#c5f6d1 Analogous#eac5f6 Analogous#f6c5d1 Triadic#eaf6c5 Triadic#c5eaf6 Split complementary#d2f6c5 Split complementary#c5f6ea

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, 20, 5, 4.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #f6c5ea on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 20 5 4

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 22 9 10

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

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 #f6c5ea straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #f6c5ea; }
.text { color: #f6c5ea; }
.border { border: 2px solid #f6c5ea; }

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 #f6c5ea against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #f6c5ea 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 #f6c5ea 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 #f6c5ea 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 #f6c5ea is computed, not guessed. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.