Thistle colour

RGB hex code

#D9BFD9

RGB (255)

217, 191, 217

RGB

0.8500, 0.7500, 0.8500

RGB %

85%, 75%, 85%

CIELAB

L: 80.23, A: 13.47, B: −9.40

HSV

H: 0.8333, S: 0.1176, V: 0.8500

CSS colour name

Thistle

Colour components

The RGB colour model is an additive model in which the red, green, and blue primary colors of light are added together to reproduce a broad spectrum of colours. In the case of thistle, using 8-bit 0–255 values for each channel, it is red 217, green 191, blue 217.

The CIELAB color space expresses color as three values: L* for perceptual lightness, and a* and b* for the colours of human vision: red-green, blue-yellow.

Thistle is a light purple resembling the flower of the thistle plant.

In terms of colour temperature, thistle is considered a cool colour.