Thistle

#e5bbde

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 soft. 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 #e5bbde, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e5bbde

RGB229, 187, 222

HSL310, 45%, 82%

HSV310, 18%, 90%

CMYK0%, 18%, 3%, 10%

Lab80.44, 20.86, -11.8

XYZ63.27, 57.47, 76.87

Decimal15055838

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone530 C

Shades of thistle

#da9fd0 #d083c3 #c567b5 #ba4ba8 #a23e91 #863378 #6a285f #4e1e46 #32132d #160814

Tints of thistle

#e7c1e1 #e9c6e3 #ebcce6 #edd1e9 #f0d7eb #f2dcee #f4e2f1 #f6e7f3 #f8edf6 #faf2f9

Colors that go with thistle

Complementary#bbe5c2 Analogous#d7bbe5 Analogous#e5bbc9 Triadic#dee5bb Triadic#bbdee5 Split complementary#c9e5bb Split complementary#bbe5d7

Thistle in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 18, 3, 10.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e5bbde on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 18 3 10

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 21 7 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.

Thistle in css

Copy #e5bbde straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e5bbde; }
.text { color: #e5bbde; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e5bbde; }

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 #e5bbde against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e5bbde 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 #e5bbde 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 #e5bbde 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

Here is how the numbers for #e5bbde are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.