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magenta / pink · warm

#df3765

a balanced, vivid magenta / pink · warm · closest name: Indian Red

Token name suggestion: Studio Peony

RGB
223, 55, 101
HSL
344°, 72%, 55%
CMYK
0, 75, 55, 13
Luminance
0.1936

#df3765 is a balanced vivid magenta / pink, 344° on the wheel and 26/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (4.87:1). As text it scores 4.31:1 on white — large text only. Nearest name is Indian Red, nearest Tailwind family is rose.

hsl(344 72% 55%)rgb(223 55 101)Base step 500AA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #df3765 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#df3765
Hue
344°
magenta / pink
Saturation
72%
vivid
Lightness
55%
balanced
Brightness
87%
HSV value
Perceived
52%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1936
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
26/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
4.87:1
Closest name
Indian Red
ΔE2000 9.4
Chroma
67.7
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.605
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
rose
500 · ΔE 6.6
Web-safe
#CC3366
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue344° of 360°
Saturation72%
Lightness55%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #df3765.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool26% 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
Red81%
Green14%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#df3765
HEX (8-digit)#df3765ff
RGBrgb(223, 55, 101)
RGBArgba(223, 55, 101, 1)
HSLhsl(344, 72%, 55%)
HSV / HSBhsv(344, 75%, 87%)
HWBhwb(344 22% 13%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 75%, 55%, 13%)
LABlab(51.1 66.2 14.2)
LCHlch(51.1 67.7 12.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.605 0.204 10.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(34.15, 19.36, 14.25)
Decimal14628709
Display P3color(display-p3 0.875 0.216 0.396)
Web-safe#CC3366

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #df3765;
background-color: #df3765;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #df3765;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#df3765] bg-[#df3765]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #df3765;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.875, green: 0.216, blue: 0.396)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.875, green: 0.216, blue: 0.396, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#DF3765</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFDF3765)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFDF3765)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(101, 55, 223)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(223, 55, 101)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(223, 55, 101)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 223, 55, 101)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8745f, 0.2157f, 0.3961f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{223,55,101}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #df3765 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #df3765 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#6E122B, #EED3DA);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #df3765 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: #FCF3F5;
  --brand-100: #F8E7EC;
  --brand-200: #F3C9D4;
  --brand-300: #F09EB4;
  --brand-400: #E86E8F;
  --brand-500: #df3765;
  --brand-600: #D32252;
  --brand-700: #B01C45;
  --brand-800: #8D1737;
  --brand-900: #66142B;
  --brand-950: #400D1B;
  --brand: #df3765;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4F6;
  --brand-border: #EDC0CC;
  --brand-hover: #D12151;
  --brand-pressed: #B21D45;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241418;
    --brand-ink: #EED3DA;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FCF3F5',
        100: '#F8E7EC',
        200: '#F3C9D4',
        300: '#F09EB4',
        400: '#E86E8F',
        500: '#df3765',
        600: '#D32252',
        700: '#B01C45',
        800: '#8D1737',
        900: '#66142B',
        950: '#400D1B',
        DEFAULT: '#df3765',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FCF3F5,
  '100': #F8E7EC,
  '200': #F3C9D4,
  '300': #F09EB4,
  '400': #E86E8F,
  '500': #df3765,
  '600': #D32252,
  '700': #B01C45,
  '800': #8D1737,
  '900': #66142B,
  '950': #400D1B,
);
$brand-base: #df3765;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FCF3F5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F8E7EC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F3C9D4", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#F09EB4", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#E86E8F", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#df3765", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#D32252", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#B01C45", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#8D1737", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#66142B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#400D1B", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #df3765 · 4.87:1
Use #000000AA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 4.31:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.87:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #df3765 as text scores 4.31:1 on white and 4.87:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #6E122B at 2.73:1.

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
#DE2E5E · 4.51:1
AA on white−2% L
#DE2E5E
The quick fox
#A91B42 · 7.19:1
AAA on white−16% L
#A91B42
The quick fox
#df3765 · 4.87:1
AA on blackalready passes
#df3765
The quick fox
#E87091 · 7.16:1
AAA on black+13% L
#E87091

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #DF3765 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
#df3765 on white: 4.31:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#df3765 on black: 4.87:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #df3765 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #df3765.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White4.31:1AaAa
Slate 504.12:1AaAa
Slate 1003.93:1AaAa
Slate 2003.50:1AaAa
Slate 3002.90:1AaAa
Slate 4001.68:1AaAa
Slate 5001.10:1AaAa
Slate 6001.76:1AaAa
Slate 7002.40:1AaAa
Slate 8003.39:1AaAa
Slate 9004.14:1AaAa
Black4.87:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #636466
deuteranopia · #8F8661
tritanopia · #F3004B

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. #df3765 is pinned to step 500; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FCF3F5
#F8E7EC
#F3C9D4
#F09EB4
#E86E8F
#df3765
#D32252
#B01C45
#8D1737
#66142B
#400D1B
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #FCF3F5Darkest = 950 · #400D1BText 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 0.051 10.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.082 10.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.122 10.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.159 10.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.188 10.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.204 10.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.204 10.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.192 10.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.171 10.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.143 10.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.112 10.1);
}

Colors that work with #df3765

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#FAF4F6
Tinted page background
Border#EDC0CC
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B61
Captions on the surface
Accent#18B463
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#6E122B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FBE9EE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241418
Dark-mode background
Hover#D12151
One step down in lightness
Pressed#B21D45
Two steps down
Disabled#D0B6BD
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#EC3E6E
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 #df3765

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

Works well for
  • Headings from 24px up on white
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Small text on white — under 4.5:1
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
24px / 18.66px bold
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #6E122B
Safe as a 1px border on white
Yes

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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. The mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight46/100
  • 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#37DFB1
Analogous left#DF37B9
Analogous right#DF5D37
Split-complement 1#37DF5D
Split-complement 2#37B9DF
Triadic 1#65DF37
Triadic 2#3765DF
Tetradic#B9DF37
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°344°

#df3765 sits at 344°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red87.5%
Green21.6%
Blue39.6%
R · 0–255
223
0xdf
G · 0–255
55
0x37
B · 0–255
101
0x65

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta75.3%
Yellow54.7%
Key (black)12.5%

Total ink coverage is 143%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#df3765 text on a black background

contrast 4.87:1

Card sample

#df3765 text on a white background

contrast 4.31:1

Card sample

#df3765 on grey

3.93:1

#df3765 on its own surface

3.97:1

#df3765 on its dark surface

4.10:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #df3765;
Background color
Panel with #df3765 background
background-color: #df3765;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #df3765;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(223, 55, 101, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(223, 55, 101, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #df3765;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #df3765, #DF7937);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #df3765, #DFA337);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #df3765;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #df3765;
caret-color: #df3765;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #df3765;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FBE9EE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #df3765;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#df3765 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #df3765 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(223, 55, 101, 0.5)
rgb(223 55 101 / 50%)
#df376580
hsl(344 72% 55% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #df3765 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#df37651a#FCEBF0
20%#df376533#F9D7E0
40%#df376566#F2AFC1
60%#df376599#EC87A3
80%#df3765cc#E55F84

Gradients from #df3765

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, #E76C8E, #df3765 45%, #6E122B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #df3765, #D57722);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #df3765, #37DFB1);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #EC86A2 0%, #df3765 45%, #6E122B 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF4F6, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #E663D3 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E37F51 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #6E122B 0%, transparent 65%), #df3765;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #df3765

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.

#df3765 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
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
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 4.87:1.

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.

#df3765, answered

What color is #df3765?

#df3765 is a balanced vivid magenta / pink, closest to Indian Red (ΔE2000 9.4). It sits at 344° on the hue wheel with 72% saturation and 55% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #df3765?

rgb(223, 55, 101) — 223 red, 55 green and 101 blue out of 255, or 87.5% / 21.6% / 39.6% by channel.

What is #df3765 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(344, 72%, 55%) and hsv(344, 75%, 87%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #df3765 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.1936 and perceived brightness is 52%, so black text on it reaches 4.87:1.

Should I use black or white text on #df3765?

Black. It scores 4.87:1 against #df3765, versus 4.31:1 for white — AA at any size.

Is #df3765 accessible on a white background?

#df3765 on white scores 4.31:1, which only clears AA for large text — 18.66px bold or 24px regular and up. Darken it to #DE2E5E to reach 4.5:1, or #A91B42 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #df3765?

#37DFB1 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #37DF5D and #37B9DF, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #df3765?

For interface work: #FAF4F6 as the surface, #EDC0CC for borders, #9B4B61 for secondary text, #18B463 as an accent and #6E122B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #DF37B9 and #DF5D37 stays calm, while #37DFB1 is the loudest partner.

What is #df3765 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 75%, 55%, 13%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #df3765 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 26 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #DF4737; nudged cooler, #E135A3.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #df3765?

The rose family — its 500 step is #f43f5e, ΔE2000 6.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #df3765 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #df3765 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#df3765] or text-[#df3765], 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 #df3765 with 50% opacity?

rgba(223, 55, 101, 0.5), or #df376580 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EF9BB2; over black, #701C33.

Is #df3765 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CC3366, ΔE2000 5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #df3765 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 chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #df3765?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #E76C8E, #df3765 45%, #6E122B). For more colour, a short hue run to #D57722 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #df3765 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #df3765 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.