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#eed9d2

a pale, vivid orange · warm · closest name: Misty Rose

Token name suggestion: Chalk Amber

RGB
238, 217, 210
HSL
15°, 45%, 88%
CMYK
0, 9, 12, 7
Luminance
0.7246

#eed9d2 is a pale vivid orange, 15° on the wheel and 8/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.49:1). As text it scores 1.36:1 on white — use #B15E43 instead. Nearest name is Misty Rose, nearest Tailwind family is amber.

hsl(15 45% 88%)rgb(238 217 210)Base step 200AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #eed9d2 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#eed9d2
Hue
15°
orange
Saturation
45%
vivid
Lightness
88%
pale
Brightness
93%
HSV value
Perceived
87%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7246
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
8/100 cool
Color family
Orange
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
15.49:1
Closest name
Misty Rose
ΔE2000 4.2
Chroma
8.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.900
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
amber
500 · ΔE 27.6
Web-safe
#FFCCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue15° of 360°
Saturation45%
Lightness88%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #eed9d2.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool8% 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
Red25%
Green68%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#eed9d2
HEX (8-digit)#eed9d2ff
RGBrgb(238, 217, 210)
RGBArgba(238, 217, 210, 1)
HSLhsl(15, 45%, 88%)
HSV / HSBhsv(15, 12%, 93%)
HWBhwb(15 82% 7%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 9%, 12%, 7%)
LABlab(88.2 6.1 6.1)
LCHlch(88.2 8.6 45.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.900 0.025 39.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(71.70, 72.46, 71.17)
Decimal15653330
Display P3color(display-p3 0.933 0.851 0.824)
Web-safe#FFCCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #eed9d2;
background-color: #eed9d2;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #eed9d2;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#eed9d2] bg-[#eed9d2]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #eed9d2;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.933, green: 0.851, blue: 0.824)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.933, green: 0.851, blue: 0.824, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#EED9D2</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFEED9D2)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFEED9D2)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(210, 217, 238)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(238, 217, 210)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(238, 217, 210)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 238, 217, 210)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9333f, 0.8510f, 0.8235f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{238,217,210}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #eed9d2 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #eed9d2 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#5D3123, #EEDAD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #eed9d2 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: #FAF6F5;
  --brand-100: #F5EDEA;
  --brand-200: #eed9d2;
  --brand-300: #E0BAAE;
  --brand-400: #D19885;
  --brand-500: #C2755C;
  --brand-600: #B25F43;
  --brand-700: #944F38;
  --brand-800: #763F2D;
  --brand-900: #573024;
  --brand-950: #361E16;
  --brand: #eed9d2;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF6F4;
  --brand-border: #E9CDC4;
  --brand-hover: #E4C3B8;
  --brand-pressed: #DAAD9E;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241814;
    --brand-ink: #EEDAD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAF6F5',
        100: '#F5EDEA',
        200: '#eed9d2',
        300: '#E0BAAE',
        400: '#D19885',
        500: '#C2755C',
        600: '#B25F43',
        700: '#944F38',
        800: '#763F2D',
        900: '#573024',
        950: '#361E16',
        DEFAULT: '#eed9d2',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAF6F5,
  '100': #F5EDEA,
  '200': #eed9d2,
  '300': #E0BAAE,
  '400': #D19885,
  '500': #C2755C,
  '600': #B25F43,
  '700': #944F38,
  '800': #763F2D,
  '900': #573024,
  '950': #361E16,
);
$brand-base: #eed9d2;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FAF6F5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F5EDEA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#eed9d2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#E0BAAE", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#D19885", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#C2755C", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#B25F43", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#944F38", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#763F2D", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#573024", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#361E16", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #eed9d2 · 15.49:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.36:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 15.49:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #eed9d2 as text scores 1.36:1 on white and 15.49:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #5D3123 at 8.03:1.

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
#B15E43 · 4.61:1
AA on white−40% L
#B15E43
The quick fox
#854732 · 7.13:1
AAA on white−52% L
#854732
The quick fox
#eed9d2 · 15.49:1
AA on blackalready passes
#eed9d2
The quick fox
#eed9d2 · 15.49:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#eed9d2

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #C8846E 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
#eed9d2 on white: 1.36:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#eed9d2 on black: 15.49:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #eed9d2 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #eed9d2.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.36:1AaAa
Slate 501.30:1AaAa
Slate 1001.24:1AaAa
Slate 2001.10:1AaAa
Slate 3001.10:1AaAa
Slate 4001.89:1AaAa
Slate 5003.51:1AaAa
Slate 6005.59:1AaAa
Slate 7007.64:1AaAa
Slate 80010.79:1AaAa
Slate 90013.17:1AaAa
Black15.49:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #DEDBD2
deuteranopia · #E2DFD2
tritanopia · #F4D6D7

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. #eed9d2 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.

#FAF6F5
#F5EDEA
#eed9d2
#E0BAAE
#D19885
#C2755C
#B25F43
#944F38
#763F2D
#573024
#361E16
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #FAF6F5Darkest = 950 · #361E16Text 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 0.006 39.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.010 39.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.015 39.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.020 39.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.023 39.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.025 39.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.025 39.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.024 39.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.021 39.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.018 39.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.014 39.4);
}

Colors that work with #eed9d2

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#FAF6F4
Tinted page background
Border#E9CDC4
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B5F4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#359797
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#5D3123
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F8EFEC
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241814
Dark-mode background
Hover#E4C3B8
One step down in lightness
Pressed#DAAD9E
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F4F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F6E4DF
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

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #eed9d2

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 #5D3123
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #C8846E

Meaning and mood

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

friendlyenergeticaffordablesocial

Orange is red with the aggression taken out — approachable, active, and strongly associated with buying and doing.

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

Hard to make feel premium, and it collides with the "caution" band in status systems.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight12/100
  • 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#D2E7EE
Analogous left#EED2D9
Analogous right#EEE7D2
Split-complement 1#D2EEE7
Split-complement 2#D2D9EE
Triadic 1#D2EED9
Triadic 2#D9D2EE
Tetradic#D9EED2
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°15°

#eed9d2 sits at 15°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red93.3%
Green85.1%
Blue82.4%
R · 0–255
238
0xee
G · 0–255
217
0xd9
B · 0–255
210
0xd2

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta8.8%
Yellow11.8%
Key (black)6.7%

Total ink coverage is 27%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#eed9d2 text on a black background

contrast 15.49:1

Card sample

#eed9d2 text on a white background

contrast 1.36:1

Card sample

#eed9d2 on grey

1.24:1

#eed9d2 on its own surface

1.26:1

#eed9d2 on its dark surface

12.74:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #eed9d2;
Background color
Panel with #eed9d2 background
background-color: #eed9d2;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #eed9d2;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(238, 217, 210, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(238, 217, 210, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #eed9d2;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #eed9d2, #EEECD2);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #eed9d2, #E9EED2);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #eed9d2;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #eed9d2;
caret-color: #eed9d2;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #eed9d2;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F8EFEC;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #eed9d2;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#eed9d2 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #eed9d2 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, 217, 210, 0.5)
rgb(238 217 210 / 50%)
#eed9d280
hsl(15 45% 88% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #eed9d2 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#eed9d21a#FDFBFB
20%#eed9d233#FCF7F6
40%#eed9d266#F8F0ED
60%#eed9d299#F5E8E4
80%#eed9d2cc#F1E1DB

Gradients from #eed9d2

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, #F9F2F0, #eed9d2 45%, #5D3123);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #eed9d2, #E6E6BC);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #eed9d2, #D2E7EE);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FBF6F4 0%, #eed9d2 45%, #5D3123 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF6F4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #FCF7F9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F6F4E8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #5D3123 0%, transparent 65%), #eed9d2;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #eed9d2

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.

#eed9d2 in the real world

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

Industries
E-commerceFood deliveryLogisticsCreator tools
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 15.49:1.

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.

#eed9d2, answered

What color is #eed9d2?

#eed9d2 is a pale vivid orange, closest to Misty Rose (ΔE2000 4.2). It sits at 15° on the hue wheel with 45% saturation and 88% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #eed9d2?

rgb(238, 217, 210) — 238 red, 217 green and 210 blue out of 255, or 93.3% / 85.1% / 82.4% by channel.

What is #eed9d2 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(15, 45%, 88%) and hsv(15, 12%, 93%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #eed9d2 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7246 and perceived brightness is 87%, so black text on it reaches 15.49:1.

Should I use black or white text on #eed9d2?

Black. It scores 15.49:1 against #eed9d2, versus 1.36:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #eed9d2 accessible on a white background?

#eed9d2 on white scores 1.36:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #B15E43 to reach 4.5:1, or #854732 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #eed9d2?

#D2E7EE sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #D2EEE7 and #D2D9EE, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #eed9d2?

For interface work: #FAF6F4 as the surface, #E9CDC4 for borders, #9B5F4B for secondary text, #359797 as an accent and #5D3123 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #EED2D9 and #EEE7D2 stays calm, while #D2E7EE is the loudest partner.

What is #eed9d2 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 9%, 12%, 7%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #eed9d2 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 8 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #EEDDD2; nudged cooler, #EFD1D5.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #eed9d2?

The amber family — its 500 step is #f59e0b, ΔE2000 27.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #eed9d2 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #eed9d2 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#eed9d2] or text-[#eed9d2], 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 #eed9d2 with 50% opacity?

rgba(238, 217, 210, 0.5), or #eed9d280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F7ECE9; over black, #776D69.

Is #eed9d2 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFCCCC, ΔE2000 10 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #eed9d2 mean?

As a orange, it reads friendly, energetic, affordable. Orange is red with the aggression taken out — approachable, active, and strongly associated with buying and doing. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #eed9d2?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F9F2F0, #eed9d2 45%, #5D3123). For more colour, a short hue run to #E6E6BC keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #eed9d2 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #eed9d2 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.