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#f6dce2

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

Token name suggestion: Chalk Ember

RGB
246, 220, 226
HSL
346°, 59%, 91%
CMYK
0, 11, 8, 4
Luminance
0.7627

#f6dce2 is a pale vivid red, 346° on the wheel and 24/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (16.25:1). As text it scores 1.29:1 on white — use #CE4262 instead. Nearest name is Misty Rose, nearest Tailwind family is pink.

hsl(346 59% 91%)rgb(246 220 226)Base step 100AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f6dce2 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f6dce2
Hue
346°
red
Saturation
59%
vivid
Lightness
91%
pale
Brightness
96%
HSV value
Perceived
90%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7627
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
24/100 cool
Color family
Red
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
16.25:1
Closest name
Misty Rose
ΔE2000 4.2
Chroma
9.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.917
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
pink
500 · ΔE 32.7
Web-safe
#FFCCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue346° of 360°
Saturation59%
Lightness91%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f6dce2.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool24% 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
Red26%
Green67%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#f6dce2
HEX (8-digit)#f6dce2ff
RGBrgb(246, 220, 226)
RGBArgba(246, 220, 226, 1)
HSLhsl(346, 59%, 91%)
HSV / HSBhsv(346, 11%, 96%)
HWBhwb(346 86% 4%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 11%, 8%, 4%)
LABlab(90.0 9.9 0.3)
LCHlch(90.0 9.9 2.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.917 0.030 2.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(77.33, 76.27, 82.59)
Decimal16178402
Display P3color(display-p3 0.965 0.863 0.886)
Web-safe#FFCCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f6dce2;
background-color: #f6dce2;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f6dce2;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f6dce2] bg-[#f6dce2]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f6dce2;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.965, green: 0.863, blue: 0.886)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.965, green: 0.863, blue: 0.886, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F6DCE2</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF6DCE2)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF6DCE2)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(226, 220, 246)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(246, 220, 226)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(246, 220, 226)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 246, 220, 226)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9647f, 0.8627f, 0.8863f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{246,220,226}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f6dce2 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f6dce2 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#651A2B, #EED3D9);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f6dce2 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: #FBF4F5;
  --brand-100: #f6dce2;
  --brand-200: #EFCDD5;
  --brand-300: #E8A6B5;
  --brand-400: #DD7990;
  --brand-500: #D14C6B;
  --brand-600: #C33253;
  --brand-700: #A22A45;
  --brand-800: #822138;
  --brand-900: #5E1C2B;
  --brand-950: #3B111B;
  --brand: #f6dce2;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4F6;
  --brand-border: #EDC0CA;
  --brand-hover: #EFC0CB;
  --brand-pressed: #E7A3B3;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241418;
    --brand-ink: #EED3D9;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF4F5',
        100: '#f6dce2',
        200: '#EFCDD5',
        300: '#E8A6B5',
        400: '#DD7990',
        500: '#D14C6B',
        600: '#C33253',
        700: '#A22A45',
        800: '#822138',
        900: '#5E1C2B',
        950: '#3B111B',
        DEFAULT: '#f6dce2',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF4F5,
  '100': #f6dce2,
  '200': #EFCDD5,
  '300': #E8A6B5,
  '400': #DD7990,
  '500': #D14C6B,
  '600': #C33253,
  '700': #A22A45,
  '800': #822138,
  '900': #5E1C2B,
  '950': #3B111B,
);
$brand-base: #f6dce2;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF4F5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#f6dce2", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#EFCDD5", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#E8A6B5", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#DD7990", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#D14C6B", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#C33253", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#A22A45", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#822138", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#5E1C2B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3B111B", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f6dce2 · 16.25:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.29:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 16.25:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f6dce2 as text scores 1.29:1 on white and 16.25:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #651A2B at 9.36:1.

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
#CE4262 · 4.59:1
AA on white−38% L
#CE4262
The quick fox
#A42A46 · 7.00:1
AAA on white−51% L
#A42A46
The quick fox
#f6dce2 · 16.25:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f6dce2
The quick fox
#f6dce2 · 16.25:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f6dce2

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #DB738B 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
#f6dce2 on white: 1.29:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f6dce2 on black: 16.25:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f6dce2 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f6dce2.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.29:1AaAa
Slate 501.23:1AaAa
Slate 1001.18:1AaAa
Slate 2001.05:1AaAa
Slate 3001.15:1AaAa
Slate 4001.98:1AaAa
Slate 5003.68:1AaAa
Slate 6005.87:1AaAa
Slate 7008.01:1AaAa
Slate 80011.32:1AaAa
Slate 90013.82:1AaAa
Black16.25:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #DFE0E2
deuteranopia · #E5E4E1
tritanopia · #FBDBDE

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. #f6dce2 is pinned to step 100; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FBF4F5
#f6dce2
#EFCDD5
#E8A6B5
#DD7990
#D14C6B
#C33253
#A22A45
#822138
#5E1C2B
#3B111B
Base = 100Lightest = 50 · #FBF4F5Darkest = 950 · #3B111BText 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 0.007 2.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.012 2.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.018 2.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.023 2.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.027 2.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.030 2.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.030 2.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.028 2.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.025 2.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.021 2.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.016 2.0);
}

Colors that work with #f6dce2

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#FAF4F6
Tinted page background
Border#EDC0CA
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B5D
Captions on the surface
Accent#25A76B
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#651A2B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FAEBEE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241418
Dark-mode background
Hover#EFC0CB
One step down in lightness
Pressed#E7A3B3
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F3F4
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F9DDE3
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 #f6dce2

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 #651A2B
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #DB738B

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 high lightness makes it recede — a surface colour rather than a statement.

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
  • Weight9/100
  • 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#DCF6F0
Analogous left#F6DCEF
Analogous right#F6E3DC
Split-complement 1#DCF6E3
Split-complement 2#DCEFF6
Triadic 1#E2F6DC
Triadic 2#DCE2F6
Tetradic#EFF6DC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°346°

#f6dce2 sits at 346°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red96.5%
Green86.3%
Blue88.6%
R · 0–255
246
0xf6
G · 0–255
220
0xdc
B · 0–255
226
0xe2

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta10.6%
Yellow8.1%
Key (black)3.5%

Total ink coverage is 22%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#f6dce2 text on a black background

contrast 16.25:1

Card sample

#f6dce2 text on a white background

contrast 1.29:1

Card sample

#f6dce2 on grey

1.18:1

#f6dce2 on its own surface

1.19:1

#f6dce2 on its dark surface

13.68:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f6dce2;
Background color
Panel with #f6dce2 background
background-color: #f6dce2;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f6dce2;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(246, 220, 226, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(246, 220, 226, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f6dce2;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f6dce2, #F6E7DC);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f6dce2, #F6EEDC);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f6dce2;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f6dce2;
caret-color: #f6dce2;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f6dce2;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FAEBEE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f6dce2;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f6dce2 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f6dce2 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(246, 220, 226, 0.5)
rgb(246 220 226 / 50%)
#f6dce280
hsl(346 59% 91% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f6dce2 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f6dce21a#FEFCFC
20%#f6dce233#FDF8F9
40%#f6dce266#FBF1F3
60%#f6dce299#FAEAEE
80%#f6dce2cc#F8E3E8

Gradients from #f6dce2

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, #FBEFF2, #f6dce2 45%, #651A2B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f6dce2, #F0DBC4);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f6dce2, #DCF6F0);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FCF3F5 0%, #f6dce2 45%, #651A2B 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF4F6, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FCF7F4 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #651A2B 0%, transparent 65%), #f6dce2;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f6dce2

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.

#f6dce2 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

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 16.25:1.

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.

#f6dce2, answered

What color is #f6dce2?

#f6dce2 is a pale vivid red, closest to Misty Rose (ΔE2000 4.2). It sits at 346° on the hue wheel with 59% saturation and 91% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #f6dce2?

rgb(246, 220, 226) — 246 red, 220 green and 226 blue out of 255, or 96.5% / 86.3% / 88.6% by channel.

What is #f6dce2 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(346, 59%, 91%) and hsv(346, 11%, 96%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f6dce2 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7627 and perceived brightness is 90%, so black text on it reaches 16.25:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f6dce2?

Black. It scores 16.25:1 against #f6dce2, versus 1.29:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f6dce2 accessible on a white background?

#f6dce2 on white scores 1.29:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #CE4262 to reach 4.5:1, or #A42A46 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f6dce2?

#DCF6F0 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #DCF6E3 and #DCEFF6, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f6dce2?

For interface work: #FAF4F6 as the surface, #EDC0CA for borders, #9B4B5D for secondary text, #25A76B as an accent and #651A2B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F6DCEF and #F6E3DC stays calm, while #DCF6F0 is the loudest partner.

What is #f6dce2 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 11%, 8%, 4%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #f6dce2 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 24 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F6E0DC; nudged cooler, #F6DCEC.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f6dce2?

The pink family — its 500 step is #ec4899, ΔE2000 32.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f6dce2 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f6dce2 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f6dce2] or text-[#f6dce2], 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 #f6dce2 with 50% opacity?

rgba(246, 220, 226, 0.5), or #f6dce280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FBEEF1; over black, #7B6E71.

Is #f6dce2 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFCCCC, ΔE2000 7.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f6dce2 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 #f6dce2?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FBEFF2, #f6dce2 45%, #651A2B). For more colour, a short hue run to #F0DBC4 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f6dce2 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f6dce2 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.