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magenta / pink · neutral

#facefc

a pale, electric magenta / pink · neutral · closest name: Thistle

Token name suggestion: Whisper Ruby

RGB
250, 206, 252
HSL
297°, 89%, 90%
CMYK
1, 18, 0, 1
Luminance
0.7149

#facefc is a pale electric magenta / pink, 297° on the wheel and 51/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.30:1). As text it scores 1.37:1 on white — use #CA0DD3 instead. Nearest name is Thistle, nearest Tailwind family is pink.

hsl(297 89% 90%)rgb(250 206 252)Base step 200AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

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

Hex
#facefc
Hue
297°
magenta / pink
Saturation
89%
electric
Lightness
90%
pale
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
88%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7149
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
51/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
15.30:1
Closest name
Thistle
ΔE2000 8.3
Chroma
28.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.903
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
pink
500 · ΔE 28.7
Web-safe
#FFCCFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue297° of 360°
Saturation89%
Lightness90%
Saturation × lightness field

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

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool51% 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
Red28%
Green62%
Blue10%

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

Every format

HEX#facefc
HEX (8-digit)#facefcff
RGBrgb(250, 206, 252)
RGBArgba(250, 206, 252, 1)
HSLhsl(297, 89%, 90%)
HSV / HSBhsv(297, 18%, 99%)
HWBhwb(297 81% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(1%, 18%, 0%, 1%)
LABlab(87.7 23.1 -16.7)
LCHlch(87.7 28.5 324.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.903 0.078 324.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(79.06, 71.50, 101.71)
Decimal16436988
Display P3color(display-p3 0.980 0.808 0.988)
Web-safe#FFCCFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #facefc;
background-color: #facefc;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #facefc;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#facefc] bg-[#facefc]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #facefc;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.980, green: 0.808, blue: 0.988)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.980, green: 0.808, blue: 0.988, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FACEFC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFACEFC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFACEFC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(252, 206, 250)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(250, 206, 252)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(250, 206, 252)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 250, 206, 252)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9804f, 0.8078f, 0.9882f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{250,206,252}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #facefc 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #facefc 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#730778, #EDD3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #facefc 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: #FCF2FD;
  --brand-100: #FAE5FA;
  --brand-200: #facefc;
  --brand-300: #F495F9;
  --brand-400: #EF60F5;
  --brand-500: #E92CF2;
  --brand-600: #DD0EE7;
  --brand-700: #B80CC0;
  --brand-800: #94099A;
  --brand-900: #6B0B6F;
  --brand-950: #430745;
  --brand: #facefc;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4FA;
  --brand-border: #EBC0ED;
  --brand-hover: #F7ACFA;
  --brand-pressed: #F38BF8;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241424;
    --brand-ink: #EDD3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FCF2FD',
        100: '#FAE5FA',
        200: '#facefc',
        300: '#F495F9',
        400: '#EF60F5',
        500: '#E92CF2',
        600: '#DD0EE7',
        700: '#B80CC0',
        800: '#94099A',
        900: '#6B0B6F',
        950: '#430745',
        DEFAULT: '#facefc',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FCF2FD,
  '100': #FAE5FA,
  '200': #facefc,
  '300': #F495F9,
  '400': #EF60F5,
  '500': #E92CF2,
  '600': #DD0EE7,
  '700': #B80CC0,
  '800': #94099A,
  '900': #6B0B6F,
  '950': #430745,
);
$brand-base: #facefc;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FCF2FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FAE5FA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#facefc", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#F495F9", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#EF60F5", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#E92CF2", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#DD0EE7", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#B80CC0", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#94099A", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#6B0B6F", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#430745", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #facefc · 15.30:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.37:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 15.30:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #facefc as text scores 1.37:1 on white and 15.30:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #730778 at 7.53:1.

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
#CA0DD3 · 4.66:1
AA on white−46% L
#CA0DD3
The quick fox
#9C0AA2 · 7.05:1
AAA on white−56% L
#9C0AA2
The quick fox
#facefc · 15.30:1
AA on blackalready passes
#facefc
The quick fox
#facefc · 15.30:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#facefc

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #ED4CF4 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
#facefc on white: 1.37:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#facefc on black: 15.30:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

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

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.37:1AaAa
Slate 501.31:1AaAa
Slate 1001.25:1AaAa
Slate 2001.11:1AaAa
Slate 3001.08:1AaAa
Slate 4001.87:1AaAa
Slate 5003.47:1AaAa
Slate 6005.52:1AaAa
Slate 7007.54:1AaAa
Slate 80010.66:1AaAa
Slate 90013.01:1AaAa
Black15.30:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #CBD9FE
deuteranopia · #D4DEFA
tritanopia · #FDD2DE

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. #facefc 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.

#FCF2FD
#FAE5FA
#facefc
#F495F9
#EF60F5
#E92CF2
#DD0EE7
#B80CC0
#94099A
#6B0B6F
#430745
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #FCF2FDDarkest = 950 · #430745Text 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 0.019 324.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.031 324.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.047 324.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.061 324.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.071 324.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.078 324.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.078 324.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.073 324.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.065 324.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.054 324.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.043 324.8);
}

Colors that work with #facefc

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#EBC0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#974B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#3FC408
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#730778
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FDE7FE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241424
Dark-mode background
Hover#F7ACFA
One step down in lightness
Pressed#F38BF8
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F3F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FDD7FF
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
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GlobexActive

How to use #facefc

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 #730778
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #ED4CF4

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

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight10/100
  • 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#D0FCCE
Analogous left#E3CEFC
Analogous right#FCCEE7
Split-complement 1#E7FCCE
Split-complement 2#CEFCE3
Triadic 1#FCFACE
Triadic 2#CEFCFA
Tetradic#FCE3CE
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°297°

#facefc sits at 297°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red98.0%
Green80.8%
Blue98.8%
R · 0–255
250
0xfa
G · 0–255
206
0xce
B · 0–255
252
0xfc

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.8%
Magenta18.3%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)1.2%

Total ink coverage is 20%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#facefc text on a black background

contrast 15.30:1

Card sample

#facefc text on a white background

contrast 1.37:1

Card sample

#facefc on grey

1.25:1

#facefc on its own surface

1.27:1

#facefc on its dark surface

12.74:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

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

Glowing headline

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

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(250, 206, 252, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(250, 206, 252, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #facefc;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #facefc, #FCCEDF);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #facefc, #FCCED4);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #facefc;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #facefc;
caret-color: #facefc;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #facefc;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FDE7FE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #facefc;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#facefc 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #facefc 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(250, 206, 252, 0.5)
rgb(250 206 252 / 50%)
#facefc80
hsl(297 89% 90% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #facefc 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#facefc1a#FFFAFF
20%#facefc33#FEF5FE
40%#facefc66#FDEBFE
60%#facefc99#FCE2FD
80%#facefccc#FBD8FD

Gradients from #facefc

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, #FDECFE, #facefc 45%, #730778);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #facefc, #FAB1C7);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #facefc, #D0FCCE);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FEF1FE 0%, #facefc 45%, #730778 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%, #FEFEFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FEEBF4 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #730778 0%, transparent 65%), #facefc;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #facefc

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.

#facefc 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 15.30:1.

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.

#facefc, answered

What color is #facefc?

#facefc is a pale electric magenta / pink, closest to Thistle (ΔE2000 8.3). It sits at 297° on the hue wheel with 89% saturation and 90% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #facefc?

rgb(250, 206, 252) — 250 red, 206 green and 252 blue out of 255, or 98% / 80.8% / 98.8% by channel.

What is #facefc in HSL and HSV?

hsl(297, 89%, 90%) and hsv(297, 18%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #facefc a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7149 and perceived brightness is 88%, so black text on it reaches 15.30:1.

Should I use black or white text on #facefc?

Black. It scores 15.30:1 against #facefc, versus 1.37:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #facefc accessible on a white background?

#facefc on white scores 1.37:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #CA0DD3 to reach 4.5:1, or #9C0AA2 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #facefc?

#D0FCCE sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #E7FCCE and #CEFCE3, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #facefc?

For interface work: #FAF4FA as the surface, #EBC0ED for borders, #974B9B for secondary text, #3FC408 as an accent and #730778 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #E3CEFC and #FCCEE7 stays calm, while #D0FCCE is the loudest partner.

What is #facefc in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(1%, 18%, 0%, 1%). 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 #facefc warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 51 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FCCEED; nudged cooler, #E9CDFD.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #facefc?

The pink family — its 500 step is #ec4899, ΔE2000 28.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #facefc as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #facefc in Tailwind CSS?

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

rgba(250, 206, 252, 0.5), or #facefc80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FDE7FE; over black, #7D677E.

Is #facefc a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFCCFF, ΔE2000 1.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #facefc 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 #facefc?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FDECFE, #facefc 45%, #730778). For more colour, a short hue run to #FAB1C7 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #facefc in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

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