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magenta / pink · neutral

#f292eb

a light, electric magenta / pink · neutral · closest name: Violet

Token name suggestion: Meadow Ruby

RGB
242, 146, 235
HSL
304°, 79%, 76%
CMYK
0, 40, 3, 5
Luminance
0.4543

#f292eb is a light electric magenta / pink, 304° on the wheel and 48/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (10.09:1). As text it scores 2.08:1 on white — use #CE18C0 instead. Nearest name is Violet, nearest Tailwind family is fuchsia.

hsl(304 79% 76%)rgb(242 146 235)Base step 300AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f292eb is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f292eb
Hue
304°
magenta / pink
Saturation
79%
electric
Lightness
76%
light
Brightness
95%
HSV value
Perceived
75%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4543
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
48/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
10.09:1
Closest name
Violet
ΔE2000 3.9
Chroma
57.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.788
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
fuchsia
500 · ΔE 15.8
Web-safe
#FF99FF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue304° of 360°
Saturation79%
Lightness76%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f292eb.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool48% 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
Red42%
Green45%
Blue13%

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

Every format

HEX#f292eb
HEX (8-digit)#f292ebff
RGBrgb(242, 146, 235)
RGBArgba(242, 146, 235, 1)
HSLhsl(304, 79%, 76%)
HSV / HSBhsv(304, 40%, 95%)
HWBhwb(304 57% 5%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 40%, 3%, 5%)
LABlab(73.2 49.0 -29.7)
LCHlch(73.2 57.3 328.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.788 0.160 329.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(61.89, 45.44, 84.09)
Decimal15897323
Display P3color(display-p3 0.949 0.573 0.922)
Web-safe#FF99FF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f292eb;
background-color: #f292eb;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f292eb;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f292eb] bg-[#f292eb]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f292eb;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.949, green: 0.573, blue: 0.922)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.949, green: 0.573, blue: 0.922, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F292EB</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF292EB)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF292EB)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(235, 146, 242)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(242, 146, 235)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(242, 146, 235)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 242, 146, 235)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9490f, 0.5725f, 0.9216f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{242,146,235}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f292eb 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f292eb 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#720E6B, #EED3EC);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f292eb 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: #FCF3FB;
  --brand-100: #F9E6F8;
  --brand-200: #F5C7F1;
  --brand-300: #f292eb;
  --brand-400: #ED69E3;
  --brand-500: #E736DA;
  --brand-600: #DB1ACD;
  --brand-700: #B616AB;
  --brand-800: #921188;
  --brand-900: #6A1163;
  --brand-950: #420B3E;
  --brand: #f292eb;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4FA;
  --brand-border: #EDC0E9;
  --brand-hover: #EE72E5;
  --brand-pressed: #EA52DF;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241423;
    --brand-ink: #EED3EC;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FCF3FB',
        100: '#F9E6F8',
        200: '#F5C7F1',
        300: '#f292eb',
        400: '#ED69E3',
        500: '#E736DA',
        600: '#DB1ACD',
        700: '#B616AB',
        800: '#921188',
        900: '#6A1163',
        950: '#420B3E',
        DEFAULT: '#f292eb',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FCF3FB,
  '100': #F9E6F8,
  '200': #F5C7F1,
  '300': #f292eb,
  '400': #ED69E3,
  '500': #E736DA,
  '600': #DB1ACD,
  '700': #B616AB,
  '800': #921188,
  '900': #6A1163,
  '950': #420B3E,
);
$brand-base: #f292eb;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FCF3FB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F9E6F8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F5C7F1", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#f292eb", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#ED69E3", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#E736DA", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#DB1ACD", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#B616AB", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#921188", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#6A1163", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#420B3E", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f292eb · 10.09:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.08:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 10.09:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f292eb as text scores 2.08:1 on white and 10.09:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #720E6B at 5.07:1.

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
#CE18C0 · 4.65:1
AA on white−31% L
#CE18C0
The quick fox
#9B1391 · 7.25:1
AAA on white−42% L
#9B1391
The quick fox
#f292eb · 10.09:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f292eb
The quick fox
#f292eb · 10.09:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f292eb

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #EB57E0 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
#f292eb on white: 2.08:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f292eb on black: 10.09:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f292eb as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f292eb.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.08:1AaAa
Slate 501.99:1AaAa
Slate 1001.90:1AaAa
Slate 2001.69:1AaAa
Slate 3001.40:1AaAa
Slate 4001.23:1AaAa
Slate 5002.29:1AaAa
Slate 6003.64:1AaAa
Slate 7004.97:1AaAa
Slate 8007.03:1AaAa
Slate 9008.57:1AaAa
Black10.09:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #8DACEE
deuteranopia · #A7B8E8
tritanopia · #F999B4

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. #f292eb 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.

#FCF3FB
#F9E6F8
#F5C7F1
#f292eb
#ED69E3
#E736DA
#DB1ACD
#B616AB
#921188
#6A1163
#420B3E
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #FCF3FBDarkest = 950 · #420B3EText 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 0.040 329.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.064 329.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.096 329.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.124 329.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.147 329.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.160 329.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.160 329.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.150 329.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.134 329.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.112 329.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.088 329.6);
}

Colors that work with #f292eb

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#EDC0E9
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B95
Captions on the surface
Accent#2FBA12
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#720E6B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FCE8FB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241423
Dark-mode background
Hover#EE72E5
One step down in lightness
Pressed#EA52DF
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F3F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F99FF3
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 #f292eb

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 #720E6B
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #EB57E0

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 lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight24/100
  • 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#92F299
Analogous left#C992F2
Analogous right#F292BB
Split-complement 1#BBF292
Split-complement 2#92F2C9
Triadic 1#EBF292
Triadic 2#92EBF2
Tetradic#F2C992
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°304°

#f292eb sits at 304°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red94.9%
Green57.3%
Blue92.2%
R · 0–255
242
0xf2
G · 0–255
146
0x92
B · 0–255
235
0xeb

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta39.7%
Yellow2.9%
Key (black)5.1%

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

Color previews

#f292eb text on a black background

contrast 10.09:1

Card sample

#f292eb text on a white background

contrast 2.08:1

Card sample

#f292eb on grey

1.90:1

#f292eb on its own surface

1.92:1

#f292eb on its dark surface

8.41:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f292eb;
Background color
Panel with #f292eb background
background-color: #f292eb;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f292eb;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(242, 146, 235, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(242, 146, 235, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f292eb;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f292eb, #F292AB);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f292eb, #F29293);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f292eb;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f292eb;
caret-color: #f292eb;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f292eb;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FCE8FB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f292eb;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f292eb 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f292eb 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(242, 146, 235, 0.5)
rgb(242 146 235 / 50%)
#f292eb80
hsl(304 79% 76% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f292eb 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f292eb1a#FEF4FD
20%#f292eb33#FCE9FB
40%#f292eb66#FAD3F7
60%#f292eb99#F7BEF3
80%#f292ebcc#F5A8EF

Gradients from #f292eb

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, #F9C9F5, #f292eb 45%, #720E6B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f292eb, #EF778C);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f292eb, #92F299);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FCE4FA 0%, #f292eb 45%, #720E6B 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%, #DBC0F7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F5ADC6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #720E6B 0%, transparent 65%), #f292eb;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f292eb

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.

#f292eb 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

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 10.09:1.

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.

#f292eb, answered

What color is #f292eb?

#f292eb is a light electric magenta / pink, closest to Violet (ΔE2000 3.9). It sits at 304° on the hue wheel with 79% saturation and 76% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #f292eb?

rgb(242, 146, 235) — 242 red, 146 green and 235 blue out of 255, or 94.9% / 57.3% / 92.2% by channel.

What is #f292eb in HSL and HSV?

hsl(304, 79%, 76%) and hsv(304, 40%, 95%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f292eb a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4543 and perceived brightness is 75%, so black text on it reaches 10.09:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f292eb?

Black. It scores 10.09:1 against #f292eb, versus 2.08:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f292eb accessible on a white background?

#f292eb on white scores 2.08:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #CE18C0 to reach 4.5:1, or #9B1391 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f292eb?

#92F299 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #BBF292 and #92F2C9, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f292eb?

For interface work: #FAF4FA as the surface, #EDC0E9 for borders, #9B4B95 for secondary text, #2FBA12 as an accent and #720E6B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #C992F2 and #F292BB stays calm, while #92F299 is the loudest partner.

What is #f292eb in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 40%, 3%, 5%). 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 #f292eb warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 48 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F292C8; nudged cooler, #D691F3.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f292eb?

The fuchsia family — its 500 step is #d946ef, ΔE2000 15.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f292eb as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f292eb in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f292eb] or text-[#f292eb], 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 #f292eb with 50% opacity?

rgba(242, 146, 235, 0.5), or #f292eb80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F9C9F5; over black, #794976.

Is #f292eb a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FF99FF, ΔE2000 3.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f292eb 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 #f292eb?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F9C9F5, #f292eb 45%, #720E6B). For more colour, a short hue run to #EF778C keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f292eb in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f292eb at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.