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magenta / pink · warm

#d7bbc6

a light, soft magenta / pink · warm · closest name: Thistle

Token name suggestion: Drift Peony

RGB
215, 187, 198
HSL
336°, 26%, 79%
CMYK
0, 13, 8, 16
Luminance
0.5406

#d7bbc6 is a light soft magenta / pink, 336° on the wheel and 35/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (11.81:1). As text it scores 1.78:1 on white — use #A2617B instead. Nearest name is Thistle, nearest Tailwind family is pink.

hsl(336 26% 79%)rgb(215 187 198)Base step 300AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #d7bbc6 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#d7bbc6
Hue
336°
magenta / pink
Saturation
26%
soft
Lightness
79%
light
Brightness
84%
HSV value
Perceived
77%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5406
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
35/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
11.81:1
Closest name
Thistle
ΔE2000 5.2
Chroma
11.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.819
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
pink
500 · ΔE 26.7
Web-safe
#CCCCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue336° of 360°
Saturation26%
Lightness79%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #d7bbc6.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool35% 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
Red27%
Green66%
Blue8%

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

Every format

HEX#d7bbc6
HEX (8-digit)#d7bbc6ff
RGBrgb(215, 187, 198)
RGBArgba(215, 187, 198, 1)
HSLhsl(336, 26%, 79%)
HSV / HSBhsv(336, 13%, 84%)
HWBhwb(336 73% 16%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 13%, 8%, 16%)
LABlab(78.5 11.8 -1.9)
LCHlch(78.5 11.9 351.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.819 0.035 352.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(55.99, 54.07, 60.90)
Decimal14138310
Display P3color(display-p3 0.843 0.733 0.776)
Web-safe#CCCCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #d7bbc6;
background-color: #d7bbc6;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #d7bbc6;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#d7bbc6] bg-[#d7bbc6]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #d7bbc6;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.843, green: 0.733, blue: 0.776)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.843, green: 0.733, blue: 0.776, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#D7BBC6</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFD7BBC6)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFD7BBC6)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(198, 187, 215)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(215, 187, 198)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(215, 187, 198)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 215, 187, 198)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8431f, 0.7333f, 0.7765f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{215,187,198}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #d7bbc6 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #d7bbc6 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#502F3C, #E8D8DF);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #d7bbc6 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: #F9F6F7;
  --brand-100: #F3EDEF;
  --brand-200: #E5D6DC;
  --brand-300: #d7bbc6;
  --brand-400: #C195A6;
  --brand-500: #AC7289;
  --brand-600: #9A5B74;
  --brand-700: #804C60;
  --brand-800: #673C4D;
  --brand-900: #4C2F3A;
  --brand-950: #2F1D24;
  --brand: #d7bbc6;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9F5F7;
  --brand-border: #E1CCD4;
  --brand-hover: #CAA4B3;
  --brand-pressed: #BC8EA0;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #23151B;
    --brand-ink: #E8D8DF;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9F6F7',
        100: '#F3EDEF',
        200: '#E5D6DC',
        300: '#d7bbc6',
        400: '#C195A6',
        500: '#AC7289',
        600: '#9A5B74',
        700: '#804C60',
        800: '#673C4D',
        900: '#4C2F3A',
        950: '#2F1D24',
        DEFAULT: '#d7bbc6',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9F6F7,
  '100': #F3EDEF,
  '200': #E5D6DC,
  '300': #d7bbc6,
  '400': #C195A6,
  '500': #AC7289,
  '600': #9A5B74,
  '700': #804C60,
  '800': #673C4D,
  '900': #4C2F3A,
  '950': #2F1D24,
);
$brand-base: #d7bbc6;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9F6F7", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F3EDEF", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E5D6DC", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#d7bbc6", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C195A6", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#AC7289", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#9A5B74", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#804C60", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#673C4D", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#4C2F3A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2F1D24", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #d7bbc6 · 11.81:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.78:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 11.81:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #d7bbc6 as text scores 1.78:1 on white and 11.81:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #502F3C at 6.52:1.

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
#A2617B · 4.63:1
AA on white−28% L
#A2617B
The quick fox
#7D495D · 7.04:1
AAA on white−40% L
#7D495D
The quick fox
#d7bbc6 · 11.81:1
AA on blackalready passes
#d7bbc6
The quick fox
#d7bbc6 · 11.81:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#d7bbc6

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #B78498 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
#d7bbc6 on white: 1.78:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#d7bbc6 on black: 11.81:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #d7bbc6 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #d7bbc6.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.78:1AaAa
Slate 501.70:1AaAa
Slate 1001.62:1AaAa
Slate 2001.44:1AaAa
Slate 3001.20:1AaAa
Slate 4001.44:1AaAa
Slate 5002.68:1AaAa
Slate 6004.26:1AaAa
Slate 7005.82:1AaAa
Slate 8008.23:1AaAa
Slate 90010.04:1AaAa
Black11.81:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #BDC0C6
deuteranopia · #C3C4C5
tritanopia · #DCBABF

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. #d7bbc6 is pinned to step 300; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F9F6F7
#F3EDEF
#E5D6DC
#d7bbc6
#C195A6
#AC7289
#9A5B74
#804C60
#673C4D
#4C2F3A
#2F1D24
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F9F6F7Darkest = 950 · #2F1D24Text 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 0.009 352.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.014 352.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.021 352.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.027 352.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.032 352.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.035 352.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.035 352.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.033 352.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.029 352.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.025 352.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.019 352.2);
}

Colors that work with #d7bbc6

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#F9F5F7
Tinted page background
Border#E1CCD4
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#90556C
Captions on the surface
Accent#48845D
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#502F3C
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F6EFF2
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#23151B
Dark-mode background
Hover#CAA4B3
One step down in lightness
Pressed#BC8EA0
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F3F4
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#E3C3D0
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 #d7bbc6

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 #502F3C
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #B78498

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
  • Weight21/100
  • 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#BBD7CC
Analogous left#D7BBD4
Analogous right#D7BEBB
Split-complement 1#BBD7BE
Split-complement 2#BBD4D7
Triadic 1#C6D7BB
Triadic 2#BBC6D7
Tetradic#D4D7BB
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°336°

#d7bbc6 sits at 336°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red84.3%
Green73.3%
Blue77.6%
R · 0–255
215
0xd7
G · 0–255
187
0xbb
B · 0–255
198
0xc6

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta13.0%
Yellow7.9%
Key (black)15.7%

Total ink coverage is 37%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#d7bbc6 text on a black background

contrast 11.81:1

Card sample

#d7bbc6 text on a white background

contrast 1.78:1

Card sample

#d7bbc6 on grey

1.62:1

#d7bbc6 on its own surface

1.64:1

#d7bbc6 on its dark surface

9.89:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #d7bbc6;
Background color
Panel with #d7bbc6 background
background-color: #d7bbc6;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #d7bbc6;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(215, 187, 198, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(215, 187, 198, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #d7bbc6;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #d7bbc6, #D7C3BB);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d7bbc6, #D7CABB);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #d7bbc6;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #d7bbc6;
caret-color: #d7bbc6;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #d7bbc6;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F6EFF2;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #d7bbc6;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#d7bbc6 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #d7bbc6 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(215, 187, 198, 0.5)
rgb(215 187 198 / 50%)
#d7bbc680
hsl(336 26% 79% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #d7bbc6 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#d7bbc61a#FBF8F9
20%#d7bbc633#F7F1F4
40%#d7bbc666#EFE4E8
60%#d7bbc699#E7D6DD
80%#d7bbc6cc#DFC9D1

Gradients from #d7bbc6

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, #EEE1E6, #d7bbc6 45%, #502F3C);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #d7bbc6, #CCB4A8);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d7bbc6, #BBD7CC);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F9F5F6 0%, #d7bbc6 45%, #502F3C 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F9F5F7, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #EADBE9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E2D2CE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #502F3C 0%, transparent 65%), #d7bbc6;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #d7bbc6

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.

#d7bbc6 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 11.81:1.

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.

#d7bbc6, answered

What color is #d7bbc6?

#d7bbc6 is a light soft magenta / pink, closest to Thistle (ΔE2000 5.2). It sits at 336° on the hue wheel with 26% saturation and 79% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #d7bbc6?

rgb(215, 187, 198) — 215 red, 187 green and 198 blue out of 255, or 84.3% / 73.3% / 77.6% by channel.

What is #d7bbc6 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(336, 26%, 79%) and hsv(336, 13%, 84%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #d7bbc6 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5406 and perceived brightness is 77%, so black text on it reaches 11.81:1.

Should I use black or white text on #d7bbc6?

Black. It scores 11.81:1 against #d7bbc6, versus 1.78:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #d7bbc6 accessible on a white background?

#d7bbc6 on white scores 1.78:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #A2617B to reach 4.5:1, or #7D495D for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #d7bbc6?

#BBD7CC sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #BBD7BE and #BBD4D7, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #d7bbc6?

For interface work: #F9F5F7 as the surface, #E1CCD4 for borders, #90556C for secondary text, #48845D as an accent and #502F3C for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #D7BBD4 and #D7BEBB stays calm, while #BBD7CC is the loudest partner.

What is #d7bbc6 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 13%, 8%, 16%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #d7bbc6 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 35 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #D7BBBC; nudged cooler, #D8BAD1.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #d7bbc6?

The pink family — its 500 step is #ec4899, ΔE2000 26.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #d7bbc6 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #d7bbc6 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#d7bbc6] or text-[#d7bbc6], 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 #d7bbc6 with 50% opacity?

rgba(215, 187, 198, 0.5), or #d7bbc680 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EBDDE3; over black, #6C5E63.

Is #d7bbc6 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCCCCC, ΔE2000 12.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #d7bbc6 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 #d7bbc6?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EEE1E6, #d7bbc6 45%, #502F3C). For more colour, a short hue run to #CCB4A8 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #d7bbc6 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #d7bbc6 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.