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magenta / pink · warm

#df739c

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

Token name suggestion: Morning Peony

RGB
223, 115, 156
HSL
337°, 63%, 66%
CMYK
0, 48, 30, 13
Luminance
0.3035

#df739c is a light vivid magenta / pink, 337° on the wheel and 29/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (7.07:1). As text it scores 2.97:1 on white — use #D23973 instead. Nearest name is Pale Violet Red, nearest Tailwind family is pink.

hsl(337 63% 66%)rgb(223 115 156)Base step 400AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #df739c is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#df739c
Hue
337°
magenta / pink
Saturation
63%
vivid
Lightness
66%
light
Brightness
87%
HSV value
Perceived
63%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3035
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
29/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
7.07:1
Closest name
Pale Violet Red
ΔE2000 2
Chroma
46.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.690
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
pink
500 · ΔE 7.9
Web-safe
#CC6699
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue337° of 360°
Saturation63%
Lightness66%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #df739c.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool29% 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
Red52%
Green40%
Blue8%

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

Every format

HEX#df739c
HEX (8-digit)#df739cff
RGBrgb(223, 115, 156)
RGBArgba(223, 115, 156, 1)
HSLhsl(337, 63%, 66%)
HSV / HSBhsv(337, 48%, 87%)
HWBhwb(337 45% 13%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 48%, 30%, 13%)
LABlab(62.0 46.5 -2.7)
LCHlch(62.0 46.6 356.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.690 0.141 357.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(42.56, 30.35, 35.06)
Decimal14644124
Display P3color(display-p3 0.875 0.451 0.612)
Web-safe#CC6699

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #df739c;
background-color: #df739c;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #df739c;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#df739c] bg-[#df739c]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #df739c;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.875, green: 0.451, blue: 0.612)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.875, green: 0.451, blue: 0.612, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#DF739C</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFDF739C)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFDF739C)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(156, 115, 223)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(223, 115, 156)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(223, 115, 156)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 223, 115, 156)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8745f, 0.4510f, 0.6118f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{223,115,156}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #df739c 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #df739c 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#681836, #EED3DD);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #df739c 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: #FBF4F6;
  --brand-100: #F7E8EE;
  --brand-200: #F0CCD9;
  --brand-300: #EAA4BE;
  --brand-400: #df739c;
  --brand-500: #D5487E;
  --brand-600: #C72E68;
  --brand-700: #A62657;
  --brand-800: #851E45;
  --brand-900: #611A35;
  --brand-950: #3C1021;
  --brand: #df739c;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4F7;
  --brand-border: #EDC0D1;
  --brand-hover: #D85688;
  --brand-pressed: #D23973;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #24141A;
    --brand-ink: #EED3DD;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF4F6',
        100: '#F7E8EE',
        200: '#F0CCD9',
        300: '#EAA4BE',
        400: '#df739c',
        500: '#D5487E',
        600: '#C72E68',
        700: '#A62657',
        800: '#851E45',
        900: '#611A35',
        950: '#3C1021',
        DEFAULT: '#df739c',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF4F6,
  '100': #F7E8EE,
  '200': #F0CCD9,
  '300': #EAA4BE,
  '400': #df739c,
  '500': #D5487E,
  '600': #C72E68,
  '700': #A62657,
  '800': #851E45,
  '900': #611A35,
  '950': #3C1021,
);
$brand-base: #df739c;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF4F6", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F7E8EE", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F0CCD9", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#EAA4BE", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#df739c", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#D5487E", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#C72E68", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#A62657", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#851E45", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#611A35", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3C1021", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #df739c · 7.07:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.97:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 7.07:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #df739c as text scores 2.97:1 on white and 7.07:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #681836 at 3.99:1.

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
#D23973 · 4.59:1
AA on white−14% L
#D23973
The quick fox
#A32555 · 7.11:1
AAA on white−27% L
#A32555
The quick fox
#df739c · 7.07:1
AA on blackalready passes
#df739c
The quick fox
#df739c · 7.07:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#df739c

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #DE6F99 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
#df739c on white: 2.97:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#df739c on black: 7.07:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #df739c as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #df739c.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.97:1AaAa
Slate 502.84:1AaAa
Slate 1002.71:1AaAa
Slate 2002.41:1AaAa
Slate 3002.00:1AaAa
Slate 4001.16:1AaAa
Slate 5001.60:1AaAa
Slate 6002.55:1AaAa
Slate 7003.49:1AaAa
Slate 8004.92:1AaAa
Slate 9006.01:1AaAa
Black7.07:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #828A9D
deuteranopia · #9E9D99
tritanopia · #EE6C82

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. #df739c 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.

#FBF4F6
#F7E8EE
#F0CCD9
#EAA4BE
#df739c
#D5487E
#C72E68
#A62657
#851E45
#611A35
#3C1021
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #FBF4F6Darkest = 950 · #3C1021Text 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 0.035 357.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.056 357.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.085 357.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.110 357.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.130 357.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.141 357.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.141 357.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.133 357.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.119 357.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.099 357.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.078 357.4);
}

Colors that work with #df739c

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#EDC0D1
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B69
Captions on the surface
Accent#22AA54
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#681836
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FAEAF0
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#24141A
Dark-mode background
Hover#D85688
One step down in lightness
Pressed#D23973
Two steps down
Disabled#E8DBE0
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#EA7CA6
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 #df739c

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

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • 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 #681836
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #DE6F99

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 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-high
  • Weight34/100
  • 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#73DFB6
Analogous left#DF73D2
Analogous right#DF8073
Split-complement 1#73DF80
Split-complement 2#73D2DF
Triadic 1#9CDF73
Triadic 2#739CDF
Tetradic#D2DF73
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°337°

#df739c sits at 337°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red87.5%
Green45.1%
Blue61.2%
R · 0–255
223
0xdf
G · 0–255
115
0x73
B · 0–255
156
0x9c

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta48.4%
Yellow30.0%
Key (black)12.5%

Total ink coverage is 91%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#df739c text on a black background

contrast 7.07:1

Card sample

#df739c text on a white background

contrast 2.97:1

Card sample

#df739c on grey

2.71:1

#df739c on its own surface

2.74:1

#df739c on its dark surface

5.94:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #df739c;
Background color
Panel with #df739c background
background-color: #df739c;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #df739c;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(223, 115, 156, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(223, 115, 156, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #df739c;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #df739c, #DF9273);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #df739c, #DFAD73);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #df739c;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #df739c;
caret-color: #df739c;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #df739c;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FAEAF0;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #df739c;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#df739c 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #df739c 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, 115, 156, 0.5)
rgb(223 115 156 / 50%)
#df739c80
hsl(337 63% 66% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #df739c 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#df739c1a#FCF1F5
20%#df739c33#F9E3EB
40%#df739c66#F2C7D7
60%#df739c99#ECABC4
80%#df739ccc#E58FB0

Gradients from #df739c

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, #EAA5BF, #df739c 45%, #681836);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #df739c, #D9895A);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #df739c, #73DFB6);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F0BED1 0%, #df739c 45%, #681836 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%, #E99DE6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E59E8C 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #681836 0%, transparent 65%), #df739c;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #df739c

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.

#df739c 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 7.07:1.

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.

#df739c, answered

What color is #df739c?

#df739c is a light vivid magenta / pink, closest to Pale Violet Red (ΔE2000 2). It sits at 337° on the hue wheel with 63% saturation and 66% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #df739c?

rgb(223, 115, 156) — 223 red, 115 green and 156 blue out of 255, or 87.5% / 45.1% / 61.2% by channel.

What is #df739c in HSL and HSV?

hsl(337, 63%, 66%) and hsv(337, 48%, 87%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #df739c a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3035 and perceived brightness is 63%, so black text on it reaches 7.07:1.

Should I use black or white text on #df739c?

Black. It scores 7.07:1 against #df739c, versus 2.97:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #df739c accessible on a white background?

#df739c on white scores 2.97:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #D23973 to reach 4.5:1, or #A32555 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #df739c?

#73DFB6 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #73DF80 and #73D2DF, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #df739c?

For interface work: #FAF4F7 as the surface, #EDC0D1 for borders, #9B4B69 for secondary text, #22AA54 as an accent and #681836 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #DF73D2 and #DF8073 stays calm, while #73DFB6 is the loudest partner.

What is #df739c in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 48%, 30%, 13%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #df739c warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 29 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #DF7375; nudged cooler, #E171C5.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #df739c?

The pink family — its 500 step is #ec4899, ΔE2000 7.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #df739c as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #df739c in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#df739c] or text-[#df739c], 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 #df739c with 50% opacity?

rgba(223, 115, 156, 0.5), or #df739c80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EFB9CE; over black, #703A4E.

Is #df739c a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CC6699, ΔE2000 5.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #df739c 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 #df739c?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EAA5BF, #df739c 45%, #681836). For more colour, a short hue run to #D9895A keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #df739c in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #df739c at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.