Everything about
the color Puce
The meaning of the color Puce and color combinations to inspire your next design.
Mix purple and brown, and you get puce, a close relative of burnt sienna. The color’s name is the French word for flea. While puce is not always the first color to pop to mind when you develop a palette, it’s a great neutral often used in modern interior decor.
Oranges, greens, and yellows play wonderfully with puce. In palettes like these, puce works best as a secondary color, bringing out a bright accent. The hex code for puce is #CC8899.
This hue is also associated with earth and nature. It is, after all, the rich brown often seen when outdoors.
Looking for a different hue? The following colors are related to puce.
Information about Puce / #CC8899
In a RGB color space (made from three colored lights for red, green, and blue), hex #CC8899 is made of 80% red, 53.3% green and 60% blue. In a CMYK color space (also known as process color, or four color, and used in color printing), hex #CC8899 is made of 0% cyan, 33% magenta, 25% yellow and 20% black. Puce has a hue angle of 345 degrees, a saturation of 40% and a lightness of 66.7%.
Color conversion
The hexadecimal color #CC8899 has RGB values of R: 80, G: 53.3, B: 60 and CMYK values of C: 0, M: 0.33, Y: 0.25, K:0.2.
| Value | CSS | |
|---|---|---|
| Hex | cc8899 | #cc8899 |
| RGB Decimal | 204, 136, 153 | rgb(204, 136, 153) |
| RGB Percentage | 80, 53.3, 60 | rgb(80%, 53.3%, 60%) |
| CMYK | 0, 33, 25, 20 | |
| HSL | 345°, 40, 66.7 | hsl(345°, 40%, 66.7%) |
| HSV (or HSB) | 345°, 33.3, 80 | |
| Web Safe | cc9999 | #cc9999 |
| CIE-LAB | 63.956, 28.35, 1.674 | |
| XYZ | 39.457, 32.748, 34.374 | |
| xyY | 0.37, 0.307, 32.748 | |
| CIE-LCH | 63.956, 28.4, 3.38 | |
| CIE-LUV | 63.956, 42.55, -2.753 | |
| Hunter-Lab | 57.226, 26.398, 1.381 | |
| Binary | 11001100, 10001000, 10011001 |
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