Thistle

#e2bce2

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

This is Thistle, a soft pink at 300 degrees. Light pinks like this suit beauty, baby and lifestyle work. Deep greens and teals opposite it give contrast and warm neutrals keep it soft.

Thistle color values

Every conversion for #e2bce2, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e2bce2

RGB226, 188, 226

HSL300, 40%, 81%

HSV300, 17%, 89%

CMYK0%, 17%, 0%, 11%

Lab80.53, 20.04, -13.85

XYZ63.07, 57.63, 79.75

Decimal14859490

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone530 C

Shades of thistle

#d6a1d6 #cb86cb #bf6cbf #b451b4 #9b439b #803880 #662c66 #4b204b #301530 #150915

Tints of thistle

#e4c1e4 #e7c7e7 #e9cce9 #ebd2eb #eed7ee #f0ddf0 #f3e2f3 #f5e8f5 #f7edf7 #faf3fa

Colors that go with thistle

Complementary#bce2bc Analogous#cfbce2 Analogous#e2bccf Triadic#e2e2bc Triadic#bce2e2 Split complementary#cfe2bc Split complementary#bce2cf

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, 17, 0, 11.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e2bce2 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 17 0 11

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 20 4 17

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 #e2bce2 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e2bce2; }
.text { color: #e2bce2; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e2bce2; }

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 #e2bce2 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e2bce2 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 #e2bce2 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 #e2bce2 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 #e2bce2 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.