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magenta / pink · neutral

#f04cfb

a balanced, electric magenta / pink · neutral · closest name: Magenta

Token name suggestion: Atlas Fuchsia

RGB
240, 76, 251
HSL
296°, 96%, 64%
CMYK
4, 70, 0, 2
Luminance
0.3066

#f04cfb is a balanced electric magenta / pink, 296° on the wheel and 52/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (7.13:1). As text it scores 2.94:1 on white — use #CA05D7 instead. Nearest name is Magenta, nearest Tailwind family is fuchsia.

hsl(296 96% 64%)rgb(240 76 251)Base step 400AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f04cfb is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f04cfb
Hue
296°
magenta / pink
Saturation
96%
electric
Lightness
64%
balanced
Brightness
98%
HSV value
Perceived
65%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3066
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
52/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
7.13:1
Closest name
Magenta
ΔE2000 3.6
Chroma
99.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.710
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
fuchsia
500 · ΔE 4.5
Web-safe
#FF33FF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue296° of 360°
Saturation96%
Lightness64%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f04cfb.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool52% 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
Red60%
Green17%
Blue23%

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

Every format

HEX#f04cfb
HEX (8-digit)#f04cfbff
RGBrgb(240, 76, 251)
RGBArgba(240, 76, 251, 1)
HSLhsl(296, 96%, 64%)
HSV / HSBhsv(296, 70%, 98%)
HWBhwb(296 30% 2%)
CMYKcmyk(4%, 70%, 0%, 2%)
LABlab(62.2 81.8 -55.7)
LCHlch(62.2 99.0 325.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.710 0.272 325.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(55.93, 30.66, 94.22)
Decimal15748347
Display P3color(display-p3 0.941 0.298 0.984)
Web-safe#FF33FF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f04cfb;
background-color: #f04cfb;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f04cfb;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f04cfb] bg-[#f04cfb]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f04cfb;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.941, green: 0.298, blue: 0.984)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.941, green: 0.298, blue: 0.984, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F04CFB</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF04CFB)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF04CFB)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(251, 76, 240)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(240, 76, 251)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(240, 76, 251)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 240, 76, 251)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9412f, 0.2980f, 0.9843f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{240,76,251}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f04cfb 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f04cfb 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#75037D, #ECD3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f04cfb 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: #FDF1FD;
  --brand-100: #FAE4FC;
  --brand-200: #F7C1FA;
  --brand-300: #F691FD;
  --brand-400: #f04cfb;
  --brand-500: #EC24FA;
  --brand-600: #E105EF;
  --brand-700: #BB04C8;
  --brand-800: #9604A0;
  --brand-900: #6C0773;
  --brand-950: #440548;
  --brand: #f04cfb;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4FA;
  --brand-border: #EAC0ED;
  --brand-hover: #ED29FA;
  --brand-pressed: #EA06F9;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #231424;
    --brand-ink: #ECD3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDF1FD',
        100: '#FAE4FC',
        200: '#F7C1FA',
        300: '#F691FD',
        400: '#f04cfb',
        500: '#EC24FA',
        600: '#E105EF',
        700: '#BB04C8',
        800: '#9604A0',
        900: '#6C0773',
        950: '#440548',
        DEFAULT: '#f04cfb',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDF1FD,
  '100': #FAE4FC,
  '200': #F7C1FA,
  '300': #F691FD,
  '400': #f04cfb,
  '500': #EC24FA,
  '600': #E105EF,
  '700': #BB04C8,
  '800': #9604A0,
  '900': #6C0773,
  '950': #440548,
);
$brand-base: #f04cfb;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FDF1FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FAE4FC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F7C1FA", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#F691FD", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#f04cfb", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#EC24FA", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#E105EF", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#BB04C8", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#9604A0", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#6C0773", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#440548", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f04cfb · 7.13:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.94:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 7.13:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f04cfb as text scores 2.94:1 on white and 7.13:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #75037D at 3.45:1.

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
#CA05D7 · 4.65:1
AA on white−21% L
#CA05D7
The quick fox
#9B04A5 · 7.11:1
AAA on white−31% L
#9B04A5
The quick fox
#f04cfb · 7.13:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f04cfb
The quick fox
#f04cfb · 7.13:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f04cfb

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #EF47FB 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
#f04cfb on white: 2.94:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f04cfb on black: 7.13:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f04cfb as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f04cfb.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.94:1AaAa
Slate 502.81:1AaAa
Slate 1002.69:1AaAa
Slate 2002.39:1AaAa
Slate 3001.98:1AaAa
Slate 4001.15:1AaAa
Slate 5001.62:1AaAa
Slate 6002.57:1AaAa
Slate 7003.52:1AaAa
Slate 8004.97:1AaAa
Slate 9006.06:1AaAa
Black7.13:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #1B8AFF
deuteranopia · #709DF7
tritanopia · #F5699F

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. #f04cfb 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.

#FDF1FD
#FAE4FC
#F7C1FA
#F691FD
#f04cfb
#EC24FA
#E105EF
#BB04C8
#9604A0
#6C0773
#440548
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #FDF1FDDarkest = 950 · #440548Text step on white = 700
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 0.068 325.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.109 325.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.163 325.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.212 325.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.250 325.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.272 325.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.272 325.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.255 325.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.228 325.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.190 325.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.149 325.2);
}

Colors that work with #f04cfb

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#EAC0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#964B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#40CC00
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#75037D
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FDE6FE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#231424
Dark-mode background
Hover#ED29FA
One step down in lightness
Pressed#EA06F9
Two steps down
Disabled#E2D4E3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F55CFF
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 #f04cfb

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
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • 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 #75037D
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #EF47FB

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.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. The mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

Strong gendered associations in some markets — test it with the audience you actually have.

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight36/100
  • 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#57FB4C
Analogous left#984CFB
Analogous right#FB4CAF
Split-complement 1#AFFB4C
Split-complement 2#4CFB98
Triadic 1#FBF04C
Triadic 2#4CFBF0
Tetradic#FB984C
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°296°

#f04cfb sits at 296°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red94.1%
Green29.8%
Blue98.4%
R · 0–255
240
0xf0
G · 0–255
76
0x4c
B · 0–255
251
0xfb

CMYK percentages

Cyan4.4%
Magenta69.7%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)1.6%

Total ink coverage is 76%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#f04cfb text on a black background

contrast 7.13:1

Card sample

#f04cfb text on a white background

contrast 2.94:1

Card sample

#f04cfb on grey

2.69:1

#f04cfb on its own surface

2.72:1

#f04cfb on its dark surface

5.96:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f04cfb;
Background color
Panel with #f04cfb background
background-color: #f04cfb;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f04cfb;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(240, 76, 251, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(240, 76, 251, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f04cfb;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f04cfb, #FB4C91);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f04cfb, #FB4C66);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f04cfb;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f04cfb;
caret-color: #f04cfb;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f04cfb;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FDE6FE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f04cfb;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f04cfb 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f04cfb 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(240, 76, 251, 0.5)
rgb(240 76 251 / 50%)
#f04cfb80
hsl(296 96% 64% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f04cfb 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f04cfb1a#FEEDFF
20%#f04cfb33#FCDBFE
40%#f04cfb66#F9B7FD
60%#f04cfb99#F694FD
80%#f04cfbcc#F370FC

Gradients from #f04cfb

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, #F588FC, #f04cfb 45%, #75037D);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f04cfb, #FA2E6E);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f04cfb, #57FB4C);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F7A6FD 0%, #f04cfb 45%, #75037D 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%, #AA7EFC 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FC6AB0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #75037D 0%, transparent 65%), #f04cfb;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f04cfb

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.

#f04cfb 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
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

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 7.13:1.

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.

#f04cfb, answered

What color is #f04cfb?

#f04cfb is a balanced electric magenta / pink, closest to Magenta (ΔE2000 3.6). It sits at 296° on the hue wheel with 96% saturation and 64% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #f04cfb?

rgb(240, 76, 251) — 240 red, 76 green and 251 blue out of 255, or 94.1% / 29.8% / 98.4% by channel.

What is #f04cfb in HSL and HSV?

hsl(296, 96%, 64%) and hsv(296, 70%, 98%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f04cfb a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3066 and perceived brightness is 65%, so black text on it reaches 7.13:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f04cfb?

Black. It scores 7.13:1 against #f04cfb, versus 2.94:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f04cfb accessible on a white background?

#f04cfb on white scores 2.94:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #CA05D7 to reach 4.5:1, or #9B04A5 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f04cfb?

#57FB4C sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #AFFB4C and #4CFB98, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f04cfb?

For interface work: #FAF4FA as the surface, #EAC0ED for borders, #964B9B for secondary text, #40CC00 as an accent and #75037D for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #984CFB and #FB4CAF stays calm, while #57FB4C is the loudest partner.

What is #f04cfb in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(4%, 70%, 0%, 2%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — a color this saturated sits outside most CMYK gamuts and will print duller than it looks here.

Is #f04cfb warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 52 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FB4CC6; nudged cooler, #B04AFD.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f04cfb?

The fuchsia family — its 500 step is #d946ef, ΔE2000 4.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f04cfb as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f04cfb in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f04cfb] or text-[#f04cfb], 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 #f04cfb with 50% opacity?

rgba(240, 76, 251, 0.5), or #f04cfb80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F8A6FD; over black, #78267E.

Is #f04cfb a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FF33FF, ΔE2000 2.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f04cfb 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 #f04cfb?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F588FC, #f04cfb 45%, #75037D). For more colour, a short hue run to #FA2E6E keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f04cfb in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f04cfb at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.