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#ecc0c2

a light, vivid red · warm · closest name: Pink

Token name suggestion: Drift Ember

RGB
236, 192, 194
HSL
357°, 54%, 84%
CMYK
0, 19, 18, 8
Luminance
0.5943

#ecc0c2 is a light vivid red, 357° on the wheel and 18/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (12.89:1). As text it scores 1.63:1 on white — use #C94A50 instead. Nearest name is Pink, nearest Tailwind family is pink.

hsl(357 54% 84%)rgb(236 192 194)Base step 200AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #ecc0c2 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#ecc0c2
Hue
357°
red
Saturation
54%
vivid
Lightness
84%
light
Brightness
93%
HSV value
Perceived
81%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5943
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
18/100 cool
Color family
Red
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
12.89:1
Closest name
Pink
ΔE2000 5.3
Chroma
16.7
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.847
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
pink
500 · ΔE 27.5
Web-safe
#FFCCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue357° of 360°
Saturation54%
Lightness84%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #ecc0c2.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool18% 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
Red30%
Green63%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#ecc0c2
HEX (8-digit)#ecc0c2ff
RGBrgb(236, 192, 194)
RGBArgba(236, 192, 194, 1)
HSLhsl(357, 54%, 84%)
HSV / HSBhsv(357, 19%, 93%)
HWBhwb(357 75% 7%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 19%, 18%, 8%)
LABlab(81.5 16.0 4.9)
LCHlch(81.5 16.7 17.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.847 0.051 15.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(63.18, 59.43, 59.17)
Decimal15515842
Display P3color(display-p3 0.925 0.753 0.761)
Web-safe#FFCCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #ecc0c2;
background-color: #ecc0c2;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #ecc0c2;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#ecc0c2] bg-[#ecc0c2]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #ecc0c2;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.925, green: 0.753, blue: 0.761)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.925, green: 0.753, blue: 0.761, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#ECC0C2</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFECC0C2)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFECC0C2)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(194, 192, 236)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(236, 192, 194)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(236, 192, 194)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 236, 192, 194)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9255f, 0.7529f, 0.7608f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{236,192,194}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #ecc0c2 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #ecc0c2 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#621E21, #EED3D4);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #ecc0c2 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: #FBF4F4;
  --brand-100: #F6E9EA;
  --brand-200: #ecc0c2;
  --brand-300: #E5A9AB;
  --brand-400: #D87E82;
  --brand-500: #CB5358;
  --brand-600: #BC393F;
  --brand-700: #9D2F34;
  --brand-800: #7D262A;
  --brand-900: #5B1F22;
  --brand-950: #391315;
  --brand: #ecc0c2;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4F5;
  --brand-border: #ECC0C2;
  --brand-hover: #E4A4A7;
  --brand-pressed: #DB898D;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241414;
    --brand-ink: #EED3D4;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF4F4',
        100: '#F6E9EA',
        200: '#ecc0c2',
        300: '#E5A9AB',
        400: '#D87E82',
        500: '#CB5358',
        600: '#BC393F',
        700: '#9D2F34',
        800: '#7D262A',
        900: '#5B1F22',
        950: '#391315',
        DEFAULT: '#ecc0c2',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF4F4,
  '100': #F6E9EA,
  '200': #ecc0c2,
  '300': #E5A9AB,
  '400': #D87E82,
  '500': #CB5358,
  '600': #BC393F,
  '700': #9D2F34,
  '800': #7D262A,
  '900': #5B1F22,
  '950': #391315,
);
$brand-base: #ecc0c2;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF4F4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F6E9EA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#ecc0c2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#E5A9AB", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#D87E82", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#CB5358", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#BC393F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#9D2F34", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#7D262A", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#5B1F22", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#391315", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #ecc0c2 · 12.89:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.63:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 12.89:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #ecc0c2 as text scores 1.63:1 on white and 12.89:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #621E21 at 7.46:1.

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
#C94A50 · 4.59:1
AA on white−30% L
#C94A50
The quick fox
#A03035 · 7.07:1
AAA on white−43% L
#A03035
The quick fox
#ecc0c2 · 12.89:1
AA on blackalready passes
#ecc0c2
The quick fox
#ecc0c2 · 12.89:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#ecc0c2

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #D7797E 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
#ecc0c2 on white: 1.63:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#ecc0c2 on black: 12.89:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #ecc0c2 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #ecc0c2.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.63:1AaAa
Slate 501.56:1AaAa
Slate 1001.49:1AaAa
Slate 2001.32:1AaAa
Slate 3001.10:1AaAa
Slate 4001.57:1AaAa
Slate 5002.92:1AaAa
Slate 6004.65:1AaAa
Slate 7006.35:1AaAa
Slate 8008.98:1AaAa
Slate 90010.95:1AaAa
Black12.89:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #C7C6C2
deuteranopia · #D1CEC1
tritanopia · #F5BCC1

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. #ecc0c2 is pinned to step 200; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FBF4F4
#F6E9EA
#ecc0c2
#E5A9AB
#D87E82
#CB5358
#BC393F
#9D2F34
#7D262A
#5B1F22
#391315
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #FBF4F4Darkest = 950 · #391315Text 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 0.013 15.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.020 15.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.030 15.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.039 15.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.046 15.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.051 15.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.051 15.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.047 15.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.042 15.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.035 15.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.028 15.1);
}

Colors that work with #ecc0c2

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#FAF4F5
Tinted page background
Border#ECC0C2
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B4E
Captions on the surface
Accent#2AA27F
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#621E21
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F9EBEC
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241414
Dark-mode background
Hover#E4A4A7
One step down in lightness
Pressed#DB898D
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F3F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F4CCCE
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
Your export is ready

The file stays available for seven days. Download it before it expires.

NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #ecc0c2

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
  • Status meaning — pair it with an icon or label, never colour alone
  • 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 #621E21
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #D7797E

Meaning and mood

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

urgentappetisingboldphysical

Red arrives before the rest of the page does. It raises attention and appetite, which is why it runs food, sport and clearance pricing.

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

It is also the universal error colour. Use it as a brand accent and users may read a warning that is not there.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight16/100
  • 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#C0ECEA
Analogous left#ECC0D8
Analogous right#ECD4C0
Split-complement 1#C0ECD4
Split-complement 2#C0D8EC
Triadic 1#C2ECC0
Triadic 2#C0C2EC
Tetradic#D8ECC0
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°357°

#ecc0c2 sits at 357°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red92.5%
Green75.3%
Blue76.1%
R · 0–255
236
0xec
G · 0–255
192
0xc0
B · 0–255
194
0xc2

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta18.6%
Yellow17.8%
Key (black)7.5%

Total ink coverage is 44%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#ecc0c2 text on a black background

contrast 12.89:1

Card sample

#ecc0c2 text on a white background

contrast 1.63:1

Card sample

#ecc0c2 on grey

1.49:1

#ecc0c2 on its own surface

1.50:1

#ecc0c2 on its dark surface

10.87:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #ecc0c2;
Background color
Panel with #ecc0c2 background
background-color: #ecc0c2;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #ecc0c2;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(236, 192, 194, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(236, 192, 194, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #ecc0c2;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ecc0c2, #ECDBC0);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ecc0c2, #ECE6C0);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #ecc0c2;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #ecc0c2;
caret-color: #ecc0c2;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #ecc0c2;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F9EBEC;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #ecc0c2;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#ecc0c2 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #ecc0c2 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(236, 192, 194, 0.5)
rgb(236 192 194 / 50%)
#ecc0c280
hsl(357 54% 84% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #ecc0c2 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#ecc0c21a#FDF9F9
20%#ecc0c233#FBF2F3
40%#ecc0c266#F7E6E7
60%#ecc0c299#F4D9DA
80%#ecc0c2cc#F0CDCE

Gradients from #ecc0c2

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, #FAEFEF, #ecc0c2 45%, #621E21);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #ecc0c2, #E5D3A8);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ecc0c2, #C0ECEA);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FBF3F4 0%, #ecc0c2 45%, #621E21 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF4F5, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #F8E7F2 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F3E6D7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #621E21 0%, transparent 65%), #ecc0c2;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #ecc0c2

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.

#ecc0c2 in the real world

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

Industries
Food and drinkEntertainmentRetailSport
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 12.89:1.

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.

#ecc0c2, answered

What color is #ecc0c2?

#ecc0c2 is a light vivid red, closest to Pink (ΔE2000 5.3). It sits at 357° on the hue wheel with 54% saturation and 84% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #ecc0c2?

rgb(236, 192, 194) — 236 red, 192 green and 194 blue out of 255, or 92.5% / 75.3% / 76.1% by channel.

What is #ecc0c2 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(357, 54%, 84%) and hsv(357, 19%, 93%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #ecc0c2 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5943 and perceived brightness is 81%, so black text on it reaches 12.89:1.

Should I use black or white text on #ecc0c2?

Black. It scores 12.89:1 against #ecc0c2, versus 1.63:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #ecc0c2 accessible on a white background?

#ecc0c2 on white scores 1.63:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #C94A50 to reach 4.5:1, or #A03035 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #ecc0c2?

#C0ECEA sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #C0ECD4 and #C0D8EC, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #ecc0c2?

For interface work: #FAF4F5 as the surface, #ECC0C2 for borders, #9B4B4E for secondary text, #2AA27F as an accent and #621E21 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #ECC0D8 and #ECD4C0 stays calm, while #C0ECEA is the loudest partner.

What is #ecc0c2 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 19%, 18%, 8%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #ecc0c2 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 18 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #ECCEC0; nudged cooler, #EDBFD2.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #ecc0c2?

The pink family — its 500 step is #ec4899, ΔE2000 27.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #ecc0c2 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #ecc0c2 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#ecc0c2] or text-[#ecc0c2], 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 #ecc0c2 with 50% opacity?

rgba(236, 192, 194, 0.5), or #ecc0c280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F6E0E1; over black, #766061.

Is #ecc0c2 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFCCCC, ΔE2000 3.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #ecc0c2 mean?

As a red, it reads urgent, appetising, bold. Red arrives before the rest of the page does. It raises attention and appetite, which is why it runs food, sport and clearance pricing. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #ecc0c2?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FAEFEF, #ecc0c2 45%, #621E21). For more colour, a short hue run to #E5D3A8 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #ecc0c2 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #ecc0c2 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.