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magenta / pink · warm

#d094af

a light, soft magenta / pink · warm · closest name: Pale Violet Red

Token name suggestion: Meadow Fuchsia

RGB
208, 148, 175
HSL
333°, 39%, 70%
CMYK
0, 29, 16, 18
Luminance
0.3768

#d094af is a light soft magenta / pink, 333° on the wheel and 32/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (8.54:1). As text it scores 2.46:1 on white — use #B4547F instead. Nearest name is Pale Violet Red, nearest Tailwind family is pink.

hsl(333 39% 70%)rgb(208 148 175)Base step 400AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #d094af is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#d094af
Hue
333°
magenta / pink
Saturation
39%
soft
Lightness
70%
light
Brightness
82%
HSV value
Perceived
67%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3768
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
32/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
8.54:1
Closest name
Pale Violet Red
ΔE2000 10
Chroma
27.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.733
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
pink
500 · ΔE 16.3
Web-safe
#CC9999
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue333° of 360°
Saturation39%
Lightness70%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #d094af.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool32% cool

Reads warm. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red36%
Green56%
Blue8%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#d094af
HEX (8-digit)#d094afff
RGBrgb(208, 148, 175)
RGBArgba(208, 148, 175, 1)
HSLhsl(333, 39%, 70%)
HSV / HSBhsv(333, 29%, 82%)
HWBhwb(333 58% 18%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 29%, 16%, 18%)
LABlab(67.8 26.6 -5.0)
LCHlch(67.8 27.1 349.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.733 0.080 350.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(44.34, 37.69, 45.49)
Decimal13669551
Display P3color(display-p3 0.816 0.580 0.686)
Web-safe#CC9999

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #d094af;
background-color: #d094af;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #d094af;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#d094af] bg-[#d094af]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #d094af;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.816, green: 0.580, blue: 0.686)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.816, green: 0.580, blue: 0.686, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#D094AF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFD094AF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFD094AF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(175, 148, 208)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(208, 148, 175)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(208, 148, 175)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 208, 148, 175)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8157f, 0.5804f, 0.6863f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{208,148,175}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #d094af 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #d094af 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#59273D, #ECD4DF);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #d094af h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #FAF5F7;
  --brand-100: #F4EBEF;
  --brand-200: #E9D2DD;
  --brand-300: #DDB1C5;
  --brand-400: #d094af;
  --brand-500: #BB638A;
  --brand-600: #AA4B76;
  --brand-700: #8E3E62;
  --brand-800: #71324E;
  --brand-900: #53273B;
  --brand-950: #341925;
  --brand: #d094af;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4F7;
  --brand-border: #E6C6D5;
  --brand-hover: #C57B9C;
  --brand-pressed: #BA628A;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #24141B;
    --brand-ink: #ECD4DF;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAF5F7',
        100: '#F4EBEF',
        200: '#E9D2DD',
        300: '#DDB1C5',
        400: '#d094af',
        500: '#BB638A',
        600: '#AA4B76',
        700: '#8E3E62',
        800: '#71324E',
        900: '#53273B',
        950: '#341925',
        DEFAULT: '#d094af',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAF5F7,
  '100': #F4EBEF,
  '200': #E9D2DD,
  '300': #DDB1C5,
  '400': #d094af,
  '500': #BB638A,
  '600': #AA4B76,
  '700': #8E3E62,
  '800': #71324E,
  '900': #53273B,
  '950': #341925,
);
$brand-base: #d094af;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FAF5F7", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F4EBEF", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E9D2DD", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#DDB1C5", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#d094af", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#BB638A", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#AA4B76", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#8E3E62", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#71324E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#53273B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#341925", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#000000", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#000000 on #d094af · 8.54:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.46:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 8.54:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #d094af as text scores 2.46:1 on white and 8.54:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #59273D at 4.79:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#B4547F · 4.65:1
AA on white−18% L
#B4547F
The quick fox
#8D3E62 · 7.00:1
AAA on white−30% L
#8D3E62
The quick fox
#d094af · 8.54:1
AA on blackalready passes
#d094af
The quick fox
#d094af · 8.54:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#d094af

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #C77F9F is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#d094af on white: 2.46:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#d094af on black: 8.54:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #d094af as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #d094af.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.46:1AaAa
Slate 502.35:1AaAa
Slate 1002.25:1AaAa
Slate 2002.00:1AaAa
Slate 3001.66:1AaAa
Slate 4001.04:1AaAa
Slate 5001.93:1AaAa
Slate 6003.08:1AaAa
Slate 7004.21:1AaAa
Slate 8005.95:1AaAa
Slate 9007.26:1AaAa
Black8.54:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #999FB0
deuteranopia · #A7A9AE
tritanopia · #D9929D

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #d094af is pinned to step 400; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FAF5F7
#F4EBEF
#E9D2DD
#DDB1C5
#d094af
#BB638A
#AA4B76
#8E3E62
#71324E
#53273B
#341925
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #FAF5F7Darkest = 950 · #341925Text step on white = 600
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.020 350.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.032 350.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.048 350.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.062 350.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.074 350.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.080 350.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.080 350.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.075 350.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.067 350.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.056 350.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.044 350.6);
}

Colors that work with #d094af

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#000000
Black wins here
Surface#FAF4F7
Tinted page background
Border#E6C6D5
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B6F
Captions on the surface
Accent#3A9255
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#59273D
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F7EDF2
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#24141B
Dark-mode background
Hover#C57B9C
One step down in lightness
Pressed#BA628A
Two steps down
Disabled#EFE5EA
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#DD9BB9
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #d094af

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • White text placed on it
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #59273D
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #C77F9F

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

expressiveyouthfulwarmconfident

Pink is the fastest way to signal that a product is not another enterprise dashboard. It carries beauty, fashion and culture brands.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. The lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

Strong gendered associations in some markets — test it with the audience you actually have.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium
  • Weight30/100
  • TemperatureWarm
  • ApproachabilityHigh

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#94D0B5
Analogous left#D094CD
Analogous right#D09794
Split-complement 1#94D097
Split-complement 2#94CDD0
Triadic 1#AFD094
Triadic 2#94AFD0
Tetradic#CDD094
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°333°

#d094af sits at 333°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red81.6%
Green58.0%
Blue68.6%
R · 0–255
208
0xd0
G · 0–255
148
0x94
B · 0–255
175
0xaf

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta28.8%
Yellow15.9%
Key (black)18.4%

Total ink coverage is 63%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#d094af text on a black background

contrast 8.54:1

Card sample

#d094af text on a white background

contrast 2.46:1

Card sample

#d094af on grey

2.25:1

#d094af on its own surface

2.27:1

#d094af on its dark surface

7.17:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #d094af;
Background color
Panel with #d094af background
background-color: #d094af;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #d094af;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(208, 148, 175, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(208, 148, 175, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #d094af;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #d094af, #D0A194);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d094af, #D0B094);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #d094af;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #d094af;
caret-color: #d094af;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #d094af;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F7EDF2;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #d094af;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#d094af 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #d094af over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(208, 148, 175, 0.5)
rgb(208 148 175 / 50%)
#d094af80
hsl(333 39% 70% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #d094af 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#d094af1a#FAF4F7
20%#d094af33#F6EAEF
40%#d094af66#ECD4DF
60%#d094af99#E3BFCF
80%#d094afcc#D9A9BF

Gradients from #d094af

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #E3BECF, #d094af 45%, #59273D);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #d094af, #C7947F);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d094af, #94D0B5);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #ECD4DF 0%, #d094af 45%, #59273D 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF4F7, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #DEB7E0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #D9B0A9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #59273D 0%, transparent 65%), #d094af;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #d094af

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#d094af in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
BeautyFashionLifestyleYouth brands
Common UI roles
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
Print note

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

On screens

Holds up across typical panel gamma. Still worth checking on an uncalibrated laptop, where mid-tones shift most.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 8.54:1.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#d094af, answered

What color is #d094af?

#d094af is a light soft magenta / pink, closest to Pale Violet Red (ΔE2000 10). It sits at 333° on the hue wheel with 39% saturation and 70% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #d094af?

rgb(208, 148, 175) — 208 red, 148 green and 175 blue out of 255, or 81.6% / 58% / 68.6% by channel.

What is #d094af in HSL and HSV?

hsl(333, 39%, 70%) and hsv(333, 29%, 82%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #d094af a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3768 and perceived brightness is 67%, so black text on it reaches 8.54:1.

Should I use black or white text on #d094af?

Black. It scores 8.54:1 against #d094af, versus 2.46:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #d094af accessible on a white background?

#d094af on white scores 2.46:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #B4547F to reach 4.5:1, or #8D3E62 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #d094af?

#94D0B5 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #94D097 and #94CDD0, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #d094af?

For interface work: #FAF4F7 as the surface, #E6C6D5 for borders, #9B4B6F for secondary text, #3A9255 as an accent and #59273D for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #D094CD and #D09794 stays calm, while #94D0B5 is the loudest partner.

What is #d094af in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 29%, 16%, 18%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #d094af warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 32 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #D09499; nudged cooler, #D292C6.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #d094af?

The pink family — its 500 step is #ec4899, ΔE2000 16.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #d094af as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #d094af in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#d094af] or text-[#d094af], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #d094af with 50% opacity?

rgba(208, 148, 175, 0.5), or #d094af80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E8CAD7; over black, #684A58.

Is #d094af a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CC9999, ΔE2000 9.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #d094af mean?

As a magenta / pink, it reads expressive, youthful, warm. Pink is the fastest way to signal that a product is not another enterprise dashboard. It carries beauty, fashion and culture brands. At this moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #d094af?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #E3BECF, #d094af 45%, #59273D). For more colour, a short hue run to #C7947F keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #d094af in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #d094af at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.