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#df99d6

a light, vivid magenta / pink · neutral · closest name: Plum

Token name suggestion: Drift Blossom

RGB
223, 153, 214
HSL
308°, 52%, 74%
CMYK
0, 31, 4, 13
Luminance
0.4333

#df99d6 is a light vivid magenta / pink, 308° on the wheel and 46/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (9.67:1). As text it scores 2.17:1 on white — use #C13DB0 instead. Nearest name is Plum, nearest Tailwind family is pink.

hsl(308 52% 74%)rgb(223 153 214)Base step 300AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #df99d6 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#df99d6
Hue
308°
magenta / pink
Saturation
52%
vivid
Lightness
74%
light
Brightness
87%
HSV value
Perceived
72%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4333
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
46/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
9.67:1
Closest name
Plum
ΔE2000 2.1
Chroma
41.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.771
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
pink
500 · ΔE 17.7
Web-safe
#CC99CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue308° of 360°
Saturation52%
Lightness74%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #df99d6.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool46% cool

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

Luminance by channel
Red36%
Green53%
Blue11%

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

Every format

HEX#df99d6
HEX (8-digit)#df99d6ff
RGBrgb(223, 153, 214)
RGBArgba(223, 153, 214, 1)
HSLhsl(308, 52%, 74%)
HSV / HSBhsv(308, 31%, 87%)
HWBhwb(308 60% 13%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 31%, 4%, 13%)
LABlab(71.8 35.7 -20.6)
LCHlch(71.8 41.2 330.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.771 0.115 331.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(53.96, 43.33, 69.13)
Decimal14653910
Display P3color(display-p3 0.875 0.600 0.839)
Web-safe#CC99CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #df99d6;
background-color: #df99d6;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #df99d6;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#df99d6] bg-[#df99d6]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #df99d6;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.875, green: 0.600, blue: 0.839)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.875, green: 0.600, blue: 0.839, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#DF99D6</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFDF99D6)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFDF99D6)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(214, 153, 223)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(223, 153, 214)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(223, 153, 214)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 223, 153, 214)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8745f, 0.6000f, 0.8392f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{223,153,214}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #df99d6 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #df99d6 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#611E58, #EED3EB);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #df99d6 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: #FAF4FA;
  --brand-100: #F6E9F4;
  --brand-200: #EDCFE9;
  --brand-300: #df99d6;
  --brand-400: #D77FCC;
  --brand-500: #C954BA;
  --brand-600: #BA3BAA;
  --brand-700: #9B318E;
  --brand-800: #7C2771;
  --brand-900: #5B2053;
  --brand-950: #391434;
  --brand: #df99d6;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4FA;
  --brand-border: #EBC1E6;
  --brand-hover: #D67ECB;
  --brand-pressed: #CE63C0;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241422;
    --brand-ink: #EED3EB;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAF4FA',
        100: '#F6E9F4',
        200: '#EDCFE9',
        300: '#df99d6',
        400: '#D77FCC',
        500: '#C954BA',
        600: '#BA3BAA',
        700: '#9B318E',
        800: '#7C2771',
        900: '#5B2053',
        950: '#391434',
        DEFAULT: '#df99d6',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAF4FA,
  '100': #F6E9F4,
  '200': #EDCFE9,
  '300': #df99d6,
  '400': #D77FCC,
  '500': #C954BA,
  '600': #BA3BAA,
  '700': #9B318E,
  '800': #7C2771,
  '900': #5B2053,
  '950': #391434,
);
$brand-base: #df99d6;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FAF4FA", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F6E9F4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#EDCFE9", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#df99d6", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#D77FCC", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#C954BA", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#BA3BAA", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#9B318E", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#7C2771", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#5B2053", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#391434", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #df99d6 · 9.67:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.17:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 9.67:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #df99d6 as text scores 2.17:1 on white and 9.67:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #611E58 at 5.27:1.

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
#C13DB0 · 4.60:1
AA on white−24% L
#C13DB0
The quick fox
#922E85 · 7.11:1
AAA on white−36% L
#922E85
The quick fox
#df99d6 · 9.67:1
AA on blackalready passes
#df99d6
The quick fox
#df99d6 · 9.67:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#df99d6

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #D372C6 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
#df99d6 on white: 2.17:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#df99d6 on black: 9.67:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #df99d6 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #df99d6.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.17:1AaAa
Slate 502.08:1AaAa
Slate 1001.98:1AaAa
Slate 2001.76:1AaAa
Slate 3001.46:1AaAa
Slate 4001.18:1AaAa
Slate 5002.19:1AaAa
Slate 6003.49:1AaAa
Slate 7004.77:1AaAa
Slate 8006.73:1AaAa
Slate 9008.22:1AaAa
Black9.67:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #97AAD8
deuteranopia · #A8B3D4
tritanopia · #E59DAF

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. #df99d6 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.

#FAF4FA
#F6E9F4
#EDCFE9
#df99d6
#D77FCC
#C954BA
#BA3BAA
#9B318E
#7C2771
#5B2053
#391434
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #FAF4FADarkest = 950 · #391434Text 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 0.029 331.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.046 331.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.069 331.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.090 331.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.106 331.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.115 331.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.115 331.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.108 331.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.097 331.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.080 331.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.063 331.2);
}

Colors that work with #df99d6

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#FAF4FA
Tinted page background
Border#EBC1E6
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B91
Captions on the surface
Accent#3AA02C
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#611E58
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F9ECF7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241422
Dark-mode background
Hover#D67ECB
One step down in lightness
Pressed#CE63C0
Two steps down
Disabled#F6F2F6
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#EAA3E0
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 #df99d6

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 #611E58
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #D372C6

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
  • Weight26/100
  • TemperatureNeutral
  • ApproachabilityBalanced

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#99DFA2
Analogous left#C599DF
Analogous right#DF99B3
Split-complement 1#B3DF99
Split-complement 2#99DFC5
Triadic 1#D6DF99
Triadic 2#99D6DF
Tetradic#DFC599
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°308°

#df99d6 sits at 308°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red87.5%
Green60.0%
Blue83.9%
R · 0–255
223
0xdf
G · 0–255
153
0x99
B · 0–255
214
0xd6

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta31.4%
Yellow4.0%
Key (black)12.5%

Total ink coverage is 48%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#df99d6 text on a black background

contrast 9.67:1

Card sample

#df99d6 text on a white background

contrast 2.17:1

Card sample

#df99d6 on grey

1.98:1

#df99d6 on its own surface

2.01:1

#df99d6 on its dark surface

8.07:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #df99d6;
Background color
Panel with #df99d6 background
background-color: #df99d6;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #df99d6;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(223, 153, 214, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(223, 153, 214, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #df99d6;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #df99d6, #DF99A7);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #df99d6, #DF9C99);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #df99d6;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #df99d6;
caret-color: #df99d6;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #df99d6;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F9ECF7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #df99d6;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#df99d6 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #df99d6 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, 153, 214, 0.5)
rgb(223 153 214 / 50%)
#df99d680
hsl(308 52% 74% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #df99d6 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#df99d61a#FCF5FB
20%#df99d633#F9EBF7
40%#df99d666#F2D6EF
60%#df99d699#ECC2E6
80%#df99d6cc#E5ADDE

Gradients from #df99d6

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, #EEC8E9, #df99d6 45%, #611E58);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #df99d6, #D8828C);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #df99d6, #99DFA2);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F5DFF2 0%, #df99d6 45%, #611E58 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #D7C0EB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E6B0C0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #611E58 0%, transparent 65%), #df99d6;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #df99d6

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.

#df99d6 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 9.67:1.

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.

#df99d6, answered

What color is #df99d6?

#df99d6 is a light vivid magenta / pink, closest to Plum (ΔE2000 2.1). It sits at 308° on the hue wheel with 52% saturation and 74% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #df99d6?

rgb(223, 153, 214) — 223 red, 153 green and 214 blue out of 255, or 87.5% / 60% / 83.9% by channel.

What is #df99d6 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(308, 52%, 74%) and hsv(308, 31%, 87%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #df99d6 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4333 and perceived brightness is 72%, so black text on it reaches 9.67:1.

Should I use black or white text on #df99d6?

Black. It scores 9.67:1 against #df99d6, versus 2.17:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #df99d6 accessible on a white background?

#df99d6 on white scores 2.17:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #C13DB0 to reach 4.5:1, or #922E85 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #df99d6?

#99DFA2 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #B3DF99 and #99DFC5, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #df99d6?

For interface work: #FAF4FA as the surface, #EBC1E6 for borders, #9B4B91 for secondary text, #3AA02C as an accent and #611E58 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #C599DF and #DF99B3 stays calm, while #99DFA2 is the loudest partner.

What is #df99d6 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 31%, 4%, 13%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #df99d6 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 46 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #DF99BC; nudged cooler, #CF98E0.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #df99d6?

The pink family — its 500 step is #ec4899, ΔE2000 17.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #df99d6 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #df99d6 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#df99d6] or text-[#df99d6], 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 #df99d6 with 50% opacity?

rgba(223, 153, 214, 0.5), or #df99d680 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EFCCEB; over black, #704D6B.

Is #df99d6 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CC99CC, ΔE2000 3.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #df99d6 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 #df99d6?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EEC8E9, #df99d6 45%, #611E58). For more colour, a short hue run to #D8828C keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #df99d6 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #df99d6 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.