Old lace

#f5f2e2

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

Old lace falls in the yellow band, pale and soft. Yellows like this read optimistic and energetic. Charcoal and navy give it the contrast it needs and purple across the wheel makes it pop.

Old lace color values

Every conversion for #f5f2e2, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#f5f2e2

RGB245, 242, 226

HSL51, 49%, 92%

HSV51, 8%, 96%

CMYK0%, 1%, 8%, 4%

Lab95.33, -1.71, 8.06

XYZ83.14, 88.41, 84.63

Decimal16118498

Web safe#ffffcc

Pantone427 C

Shades of old lace

#eae3c1 #ded5a1 #d3c680 #c8b75f #baa740 #9a8a35 #796c2a #584f1e #383213 #171408

Tints of old lace

#f6f3e4 #f6f3e5 #f7f4e7 #f7f5e8 #f8f6ea #f8f6eb #f9f7ed #f9f8ef #faf8f0 #faf9f2

Colors that go with old lace

Complementary#e2e5f5 Analogous#f5e9e2 Analogous#eff5e2 Triadic#e2f5f2 Triadic#f2e2f5 Split complementary#e2eff5 Split complementary#e9e2f5

Old lace in print

At this lightness it prints as a faint wash, best for backgrounds rather than fine type. The cmyk build is 0, 1, 8, 4.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #f5f2e2 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 1 8 4

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 5 11 10

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.

Old lace in css

Copy #f5f2e2 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #f5f2e2; }
.text { color: #f5f2e2; }
.border { border: 2px solid #f5f2e2; }

How old lace looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Old lace and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #f5f2e2 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #f5f2e2 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Old lace on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #f5f2e2 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn old lace into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #f5f2e2 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 old lace, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #f5f2e2 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.