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violet · neutral

#eed3f5

a pale, vivid violet · neutral · closest name: Thistle

Token name suggestion: Frost Plum

RGB
238, 211, 245
HSL
288°, 63%, 89%
CMYK
3, 14, 0, 4
Luminance
0.7136

#eed3f5 is a pale vivid violet, 288° on the wheel and 57/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.27:1). As text it scores 1.38:1 on white — use #B43DD3 instead. Nearest name is Thistle, nearest Tailwind family is pink.

hsl(288 63% 89%)rgb(238 211 245)Base step 200AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #eed3f5 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#eed3f5
Hue
288°
violet
Saturation
63%
vivid
Lightness
89%
pale
Brightness
96%
HSV value
Perceived
88%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7136
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
57/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
15.27:1
Closest name
Thistle
ΔE2000 5.7
Chroma
20.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.899
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
pink
500 · ΔE 30.5
Web-safe
#FFCCFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue288° of 360°
Saturation63%
Lightness89%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #eed3f5.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool57% 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
Red25%
Green65%
Blue9%

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

Every format

HEX#eed3f5
HEX (8-digit)#eed3f5ff
RGBrgb(238, 211, 245)
RGBArgba(238, 211, 245, 1)
HSLhsl(288, 63%, 89%)
HSV / HSBhsv(288, 14%, 96%)
HWBhwb(288 83% 4%)
CMYKcmyk(3%, 14%, 0%, 4%)
LABlab(87.7 15.3 -13.2)
LCHlch(87.7 20.2 319.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.899 0.054 319.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(75.03, 71.36, 96.19)
Decimal15651829
Display P3color(display-p3 0.933 0.827 0.961)
Web-safe#FFCCFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #eed3f5;
background-color: #eed3f5;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #eed3f5;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#eed3f5] bg-[#eed3f5]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #eed3f5;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.933, green: 0.827, blue: 0.961)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.933, green: 0.827, blue: 0.961, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#EED3F5</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFEED3F5)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFEED3F5)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(245, 211, 238)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(238, 211, 245)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(238, 211, 245)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 238, 211, 245)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9333f, 0.8275f, 0.9608f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{238,211,245}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #eed3f5 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #eed3f5 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#571868, #E8D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #eed3f5 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: #FAF4FB;
  --brand-100: #F4E8F7;
  --brand-200: #eed3f5;
  --brand-300: #DCA4EA;
  --brand-400: #CA76E0;
  --brand-500: #B848D5;
  --brand-600: #A82DC8;
  --brand-700: #8C26A6;
  --brand-800: #701E85;
  --brand-900: #521A61;
  --brand-950: #33103C;
  --brand: #eed3f5;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9F4FA;
  --brand-border: #E3C0ED;
  --brand-hover: #E3B6EE;
  --brand-pressed: #D799E8;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #211424;
    --brand-ink: #E8D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAF4FB',
        100: '#F4E8F7',
        200: '#eed3f5',
        300: '#DCA4EA',
        400: '#CA76E0',
        500: '#B848D5',
        600: '#A82DC8',
        700: '#8C26A6',
        800: '#701E85',
        900: '#521A61',
        950: '#33103C',
        DEFAULT: '#eed3f5',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAF4FB,
  '100': #F4E8F7,
  '200': #eed3f5,
  '300': #DCA4EA,
  '400': #CA76E0,
  '500': #B848D5,
  '600': #A82DC8,
  '700': #8C26A6,
  '800': #701E85,
  '900': #521A61,
  '950': #33103C,
);
$brand-base: #eed3f5;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FAF4FB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F4E8F7", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#eed3f5", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#DCA4EA", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#CA76E0", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#B848D5", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#A82DC8", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#8C26A6", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#701E85", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#521A61", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#33103C", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #eed3f5 · 15.27:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.38:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 15.27:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #eed3f5 as text scores 1.38:1 on white and 15.27:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #571868 at 8.80:1.

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
#B43DD3 · 4.62:1
AA on white−36% L
#B43DD3
The quick fox
#8D26A8 · 7.06:1
AAA on white−49% L
#8D26A8
The quick fox
#eed3f5 · 15.27:1
AA on blackalready passes
#eed3f5
The quick fox
#eed3f5 · 15.27:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#eed3f5

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #C973DF 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
#eed3f5 on white: 1.38:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#eed3f5 on black: 15.27:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #eed3f5 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #eed3f5.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.38:1AaAa
Slate 501.31:1AaAa
Slate 1001.26:1AaAa
Slate 2001.12:1AaAa
Slate 3001.08:1AaAa
Slate 4001.86:1AaAa
Slate 5003.46:1AaAa
Slate 6005.51:1AaAa
Slate 7007.53:1AaAa
Slate 80010.64:1AaAa
Slate 90012.98:1AaAa
Black15.27:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #D0DAF7
deuteranopia · #D5DDF4
tritanopia · #EFD6DE

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. #eed3f5 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.

#FAF4FB
#F4E8F7
#eed3f5
#DCA4EA
#CA76E0
#B848D5
#A82DC8
#8C26A6
#701E85
#521A61
#33103C
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #FAF4FBDarkest = 950 · #33103CText 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 0.014 319.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.022 319.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.032 319.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.042 319.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.050 319.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.054 319.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.054 319.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.051 319.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.045 319.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.038 319.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.030 319.3);
}

Colors that work with #eed3f5

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#F9F4FA
Tinted page background
Border#E3C0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#8A4B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#5FAA22
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#571868
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F7EAFA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#211424
Dark-mode background
Hover#E3B6EE
One step down in lightness
Pressed#D799E8
Two steps down
Disabled#F6F3F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F3DCF9
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
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GlobexActive

How to use #eed3f5

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 #571868
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #C973DF

Meaning and mood

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

creativepremiummodernimaginative

Violet sits between the warmth of red and the calm of blue, so it reads as inventive without reading as risky. Current shorthand for software craft.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. The high lightness makes it recede — a surface colour rather than a statement.

Worth knowing

Deep violets swallow detail on screens with poor gamma; check it on a cheap laptop panel.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight11/100
  • 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#DAF5D3
Analogous left#DDD3F5
Analogous right#F5D3EB
Split-complement 1#EBF5D3
Split-complement 2#D3F5DD
Triadic 1#F5EED3
Triadic 2#D3F5EE
Tetradic#F5DDD3
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°288°

#eed3f5 sits at 288°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red93.3%
Green82.7%
Blue96.1%
R · 0–255
238
0xee
G · 0–255
211
0xd3
B · 0–255
245
0xf5

CMYK percentages

Cyan2.9%
Magenta13.9%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)3.9%

Total ink coverage is 21%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#eed3f5 text on a black background

contrast 15.27:1

Card sample

#eed3f5 text on a white background

contrast 1.38:1

Card sample

#eed3f5 on grey

1.26:1

#eed3f5 on its own surface

1.27:1

#eed3f5 on its dark surface

12.83:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #eed3f5;
Background color
Panel with #eed3f5 background
background-color: #eed3f5;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #eed3f5;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(238, 211, 245, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(238, 211, 245, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #eed3f5;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #eed3f5, #F5D3E5);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #eed3f5, #F5D3DD);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #eed3f5;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #eed3f5;
caret-color: #eed3f5;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #eed3f5;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F7EAFA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #eed3f5;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#eed3f5 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #eed3f5 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(238, 211, 245, 0.5)
rgb(238 211 245 / 50%)
#eed3f580
hsl(288 63% 89% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #eed3f5 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#eed3f51a#FDFBFE
20%#eed3f533#FCF6FD
40%#eed3f566#F8EDFB
60%#eed3f599#F5E5F9
80%#eed3f5cc#F1DCF7

Gradients from #eed3f5

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, #F9EEFB, #eed3f5 45%, #571868);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #eed3f5, #EFBAD2);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #eed3f5, #DAF5D3);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FAF3FC 0%, #eed3f5 45%, #571868 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F9F4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #FDFDFE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FBECF5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #571868 0%, transparent 65%), #eed3f5;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #eed3f5

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.

#eed3f5 in the real world

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

Industries
Creative toolsFintechBeautyLuxury
Common UI roles
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
Print note

Very light tints can drop out on uncoated stock; check it at 100% size before signing off.

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 15.27:1.

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.

#eed3f5, answered

What color is #eed3f5?

#eed3f5 is a pale vivid violet, closest to Thistle (ΔE2000 5.7). It sits at 288° on the hue wheel with 63% saturation and 89% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #eed3f5?

rgb(238, 211, 245) — 238 red, 211 green and 245 blue out of 255, or 93.3% / 82.7% / 96.1% by channel.

What is #eed3f5 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(288, 63%, 89%) and hsv(288, 14%, 96%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #eed3f5 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7136 and perceived brightness is 88%, so black text on it reaches 15.27:1.

Should I use black or white text on #eed3f5?

Black. It scores 15.27:1 against #eed3f5, versus 1.38:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #eed3f5 accessible on a white background?

#eed3f5 on white scores 1.38:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #B43DD3 to reach 4.5:1, or #8D26A8 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #eed3f5?

#DAF5D3 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #EBF5D3 and #D3F5DD, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #eed3f5?

For interface work: #F9F4FA as the surface, #E3C0ED for borders, #8A4B9B for secondary text, #5FAA22 as an accent and #571868 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #DDD3F5 and #F5D3EB stays calm, while #DAF5D3 is the loudest partner.

What is #eed3f5 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(3%, 14%, 0%, 4%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #eed3f5 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 57 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F5D3F0; nudged cooler, #E1D2F6.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #eed3f5?

The pink family — its 500 step is #ec4899, ΔE2000 30.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #eed3f5 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #eed3f5 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#eed3f5] or text-[#eed3f5], 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 #eed3f5 with 50% opacity?

rgba(238, 211, 245, 0.5), or #eed3f580 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F7E9FA; over black, #776A7B.

Is #eed3f5 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFCCFF, ΔE2000 6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #eed3f5 mean?

As a violet, it reads creative, premium, modern. Violet sits between the warmth of red and the calm of blue, so it reads as inventive without reading as risky. Current shorthand for software craft. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #eed3f5?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F9EEFB, #eed3f5 45%, #571868). For more colour, a short hue run to #EFBAD2 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #eed3f5 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #eed3f5 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.