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#fd607c

a light, electric red · warm · closest name: Light Coral

Token name suggestion: Morning Ember

RGB
253, 96, 124
HSL
349°, 98%, 68%
CMYK
0, 62, 51, 1
Luminance
0.3070

#fd607c is a light electric red, 349° on the wheel and 23/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (7.14:1). As text it scores 2.94:1 on white — use #EA032C instead. Nearest name is Light Coral, nearest Tailwind family is rose.

hsl(349 98% 68%)rgb(253 96 124)Base step 400AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #fd607c is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#fd607c
Hue
349°
red
Saturation
98%
electric
Lightness
68%
light
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
64%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3070
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
23/100 cool
Color family
Red
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
7.14:1
Closest name
Light Coral
ΔE2000 7.7
Chroma
64.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.699
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
rose
500 · ΔE 6.9
Web-safe
#FF6666
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue349° of 360°
Saturation98%
Lightness68%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #fd607c.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool23% 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
Red68%
Green27%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#fd607c
HEX (8-digit)#fd607cff
RGBrgb(253, 96, 124)
RGBArgba(253, 96, 124, 1)
HSLhsl(349, 98%, 68%)
HSV / HSBhsv(349, 62%, 99%)
HWBhwb(349 38% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 62%, 51%, 1%)
LABlab(62.3 61.8 16.8)
LCHlch(62.3 64.0 15.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.699 0.191 12.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(48.33, 30.71, 22.45)
Decimal16605308
Display P3color(display-p3 0.992 0.376 0.486)
Web-safe#FF6666

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #fd607c;
background-color: #fd607c;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #fd607c;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#fd607c] bg-[#fd607c]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #fd607c;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.992, green: 0.376, blue: 0.486)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.992, green: 0.376, blue: 0.486, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FD607C</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFD607C)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFD607C)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(124, 96, 253)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(253, 96, 124)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(253, 96, 124)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 253, 96, 124)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9922f, 0.3765f, 0.4863f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{253,96,124}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #fd607c 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #fd607c 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#7E0218, #EED3D8);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #fd607c 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: #FDF1F3;
  --brand-100: #FCE4E8;
  --brand-200: #FBC1CB;
  --brand-300: #FE90A4;
  --brand-400: #fd607c;
  --brand-500: #FC2148;
  --brand-600: #F2032E;
  --brand-700: #C90326;
  --brand-800: #A1021E;
  --brand-900: #74061A;
  --brand-950: #490410;
  --brand: #fd607c;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4F5;
  --brand-border: #EDC0C8;
  --brand-hover: #FD3D5F;
  --brand-pressed: #FC1942;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241417;
    --brand-ink: #EED3D8;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDF1F3',
        100: '#FCE4E8',
        200: '#FBC1CB',
        300: '#FE90A4',
        400: '#fd607c',
        500: '#FC2148',
        600: '#F2032E',
        700: '#C90326',
        800: '#A1021E',
        900: '#74061A',
        950: '#490410',
        DEFAULT: '#fd607c',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDF1F3,
  '100': #FCE4E8,
  '200': #FBC1CB,
  '300': #FE90A4,
  '400': #fd607c,
  '500': #FC2148,
  '600': #F2032E,
  '700': #C90326,
  '800': #A1021E,
  '900': #74061A,
  '950': #490410,
);
$brand-base: #fd607c;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FDF1F3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FCE4E8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#FBC1CB", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#FE90A4", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#fd607c", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#FC2148", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#F2032E", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#C90326", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#A1021E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#74061A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#490410", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #fd607c · 7.14:1
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 · 7.14:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #fd607c as text scores 2.94:1 on white and 7.14:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #7E0218 at 3.74:1.

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
#EA032C · 4.62:1
AA on white−22% L
#EA032C
The quick fox
#B20222 · 7.18:1
AAA on white−33% L
#B20222
The quick fox
#fd607c · 7.14:1
AA on blackalready passes
#fd607c
The quick fox
#fd607c · 7.14:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#fd607c

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #FD5B78 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
#fd607c on white: 2.94:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#fd607c on black: 7.14:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #fd607c as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #fd607c.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.94:1AaAa
Slate 502.81:1AaAa
Slate 1002.68:1AaAa
Slate 2002.39:1AaAa
Slate 3001.98:1AaAa
Slate 4001.15:1AaAa
Slate 5001.62:1AaAa
Slate 6002.58:1AaAa
Slate 7003.52:1AaAa
Slate 8004.97:1AaAa
Slate 9006.07:1AaAa
Black7.14:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #84827C
deuteranopia · #ADA278
tritanopia · #FF466B

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. #fd607c 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.

#FDF1F3
#FCE4E8
#FBC1CB
#FE90A4
#fd607c
#FC2148
#F2032E
#C90326
#A1021E
#74061A
#490410
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #FDF1F3Darkest = 950 · #490410Text 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 0.048 12.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.077 12.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.115 12.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.149 12.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.176 12.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.191 12.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.191 12.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.180 12.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.161 12.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.134 12.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.105 12.8);
}

Colors that work with #fd607c

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#FAF4F5
Tinted page background
Border#EDC0C8
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B59
Captions on the surface
Accent#00CC75
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#7E0218
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FFE6EA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241417
Dark-mode background
Hover#FD3D5F
One step down in lightness
Pressed#FC1942
Two steps down
Disabled#ECE1E3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FF728B
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 #fd607c

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 #7E0218
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #FD5B78

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.

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

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
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight32/100
  • 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#60FDE1
Analogous left#FD60CA
Analogous right#FD9260
Split-complement 1#60FD92
Split-complement 2#60CAFD
Triadic 1#7CFD60
Triadic 2#607CFD
Tetradic#CAFD60
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°349°

#fd607c sits at 349°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red99.2%
Green37.6%
Blue48.6%
R · 0–255
253
0xfd
G · 0–255
96
0x60
B · 0–255
124
0x7c

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta62.1%
Yellow51.0%
Key (black)0.8%

Total ink coverage is 114%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#fd607c text on a black background

contrast 7.14:1

Card sample

#fd607c text on a white background

contrast 2.94:1

Card sample

#fd607c on grey

2.68:1

#fd607c on its own surface

2.71:1

#fd607c on its dark surface

6.01:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #fd607c;
Background color
Panel with #fd607c background
background-color: #fd607c;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #fd607c;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(253, 96, 124, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(253, 96, 124, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #fd607c;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #fd607c, #FDAD60);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fd607c, #FDD460);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #fd607c;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #fd607c;
caret-color: #fd607c;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #fd607c;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FFE6EA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #fd607c;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#fd607c 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #fd607c 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(253, 96, 124, 0.5)
rgb(253 96 124 / 50%)
#fd607c80
hsl(349 98% 68% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #fd607c 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#fd607c1a#FFEFF2
20%#fd607c33#FFDFE5
40%#fd607c66#FEBFCB
60%#fd607c99#FEA0B0
80%#fd607ccc#FD8096

Gradients from #fd607c

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, #FE9CAE, #fd607c 45%, #7E0218);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #fd607c, #FDAD42);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fd607c, #60FDE1);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FEBBC7 0%, #fd607c 45%, #7E0218 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF4F5, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #FE92E4 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FDB27E 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #7E0218 0%, transparent 65%), #fd607c;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #fd607c

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.

#fd607c 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

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 7.14:1.

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.

#fd607c, answered

What color is #fd607c?

#fd607c is a light electric red, closest to Light Coral (ΔE2000 7.7). It sits at 349° on the hue wheel with 98% saturation and 68% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #fd607c?

rgb(253, 96, 124) — 253 red, 96 green and 124 blue out of 255, or 99.2% / 37.6% / 48.6% by channel.

What is #fd607c in HSL and HSV?

hsl(349, 98%, 68%) and hsv(349, 62%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #fd607c a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3070 and perceived brightness is 64%, so black text on it reaches 7.14:1.

Should I use black or white text on #fd607c?

Black. It scores 7.14:1 against #fd607c, versus 2.94:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #fd607c accessible on a white background?

#fd607c on white scores 2.94:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #EA032C to reach 4.5:1, or #B20222 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #fd607c?

#60FDE1 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #60FD92 and #60CAFD, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #fd607c?

For interface work: #FAF4F5 as the surface, #EDC0C8 for borders, #9B4B59 for secondary text, #00CC75 as an accent and #7E0218 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FD60CA and #FD9260 stays calm, while #60FDE1 is the loudest partner.

What is #fd607c in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 62%, 51%, 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 #fd607c warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 23 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FD7D60; nudged cooler, #FF5EB6.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #fd607c?

The rose family — its 500 step is #f43f5e, ΔE2000 6.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #fd607c as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #fd607c in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#fd607c] or text-[#fd607c], 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 #fd607c with 50% opacity?

rgba(253, 96, 124, 0.5), or #fd607c80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FEB0BE; over black, #7F303E.

Is #fd607c a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FF6666, ΔE2000 7.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #fd607c 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 #fd607c?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FE9CAE, #fd607c 45%, #7E0218). For more colour, a short hue run to #FDAD42 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #fd607c in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #fd607c at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.