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#fdc2fb

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

Token name suggestion: Mist Ruby

RGB
253, 194, 251
HSL
302°, 94%, 88%
CMYK
0, 23, 1, 1
Luminance
0.6643

#fdc2fb is a pale electric magenta / pink, 302° on the wheel and 49/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (14.29:1). As text it scores 1.47:1 on white — use #D207CC instead. Nearest name is Plum, nearest Tailwind family is fuchsia.

hsl(302 94% 88%)rgb(253 194 251)Base step 200AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #fdc2fb is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#fdc2fb
Hue
302°
magenta / pink
Saturation
94%
electric
Lightness
88%
pale
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
86%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6643
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
49/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
14.29:1
Closest name
Plum
ΔE2000 8.3
Chroma
36.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.884
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
fuchsia
500 · ΔE 26
Web-safe
#FFCCFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue302° of 360°
Saturation94%
Lightness88%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #fdc2fb.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool49% 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
Red31%
Green58%
Blue10%

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

Every format

HEX#fdc2fb
HEX (8-digit)#fdc2fbff
RGBrgb(253, 194, 251)
RGBArgba(253, 194, 251, 1)
HSLhsl(302, 94%, 88%)
HSV / HSBhsv(302, 23%, 99%)
HWBhwb(302 76% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 23%, 1%, 1%)
LABlab(85.2 30.3 -19.9)
LCHlch(85.2 36.2 326.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.884 0.100 327.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(77.21, 66.43, 100.00)
Decimal16630523
Display P3color(display-p3 0.992 0.761 0.984)
Web-safe#FFCCFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #fdc2fb;
background-color: #fdc2fb;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #fdc2fb;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#fdc2fb] bg-[#fdc2fb]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #fdc2fb;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.992, green: 0.761, blue: 0.984)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.992, green: 0.761, blue: 0.984, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FDC2FB</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFDC2FB)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFDC2FB)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(251, 194, 253)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(253, 194, 251)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(253, 194, 251)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 253, 194, 251)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9922f, 0.7608f, 0.9843f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{253,194,251}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #fdc2fb 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #fdc2fb 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#7B0478, #EED3ED);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #fdc2fb 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: #FDF2FD;
  --brand-100: #FBE4FB;
  --brand-200: #fdc2fb;
  --brand-300: #FB92F8;
  --brand-400: #FA5CF4;
  --brand-500: #F826F1;
  --brand-600: #ED08E5;
  --brand-700: #C606BF;
  --brand-800: #9E0599;
  --brand-900: #72086E;
  --brand-950: #470545;
  --brand: #fdc2fb;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4FA;
  --brand-border: #EDC0EB;
  --brand-hover: #FC9FF9;
  --brand-pressed: #FB7DF7;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241424;
    --brand-ink: #EED3ED;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDF2FD',
        100: '#FBE4FB',
        200: '#fdc2fb',
        300: '#FB92F8',
        400: '#FA5CF4',
        500: '#F826F1',
        600: '#ED08E5',
        700: '#C606BF',
        800: '#9E0599',
        900: '#72086E',
        950: '#470545',
        DEFAULT: '#fdc2fb',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDF2FD,
  '100': #FBE4FB,
  '200': #fdc2fb,
  '300': #FB92F8,
  '400': #FA5CF4,
  '500': #F826F1,
  '600': #ED08E5,
  '700': #C606BF,
  '800': #9E0599,
  '900': #72086E,
  '950': #470545,
);
$brand-base: #fdc2fb;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FDF2FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FBE4FB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#fdc2fb", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#FB92F8", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#FA5CF4", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#F826F1", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#ED08E5", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#C606BF", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#9E0599", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#72086E", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#470545", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #fdc2fb · 14.29:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.47:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 14.29:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #fdc2fb as text scores 1.47:1 on white and 14.29:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #7B0478 at 6.70:1.

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
#D207CC · 4.52:1
AA on white−45% L
#D207CC
The quick fox
#9C0597 · 7.29:1
AAA on white−56% L
#9C0597
The quick fox
#fdc2fb · 14.29:1
AA on blackalready passes
#fdc2fb
The quick fox
#fdc2fb · 14.29:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#fdc2fb

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #F93CF2 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
#fdc2fb on white: 1.47:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#fdc2fb on black: 14.29:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #fdc2fb as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #fdc2fb.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.47:1AaAa
Slate 501.40:1AaAa
Slate 1001.34:1AaAa
Slate 2001.19:1AaAa
Slate 3001.01:1AaAa
Slate 4001.74:1AaAa
Slate 5003.24:1AaAa
Slate 6005.16:1AaAa
Slate 7007.04:1AaAa
Slate 8009.95:1AaAa
Slate 90012.15:1AaAa
Black14.29:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #BFD0FD
deuteranopia · #CCD8F9
tritanopia · #FFC6D6

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. #fdc2fb 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.

#FDF2FD
#FBE4FB
#fdc2fb
#FB92F8
#FA5CF4
#F826F1
#ED08E5
#C606BF
#9E0599
#72086E
#470545
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #FDF2FDDarkest = 950 · #470545Text 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 0.025 327.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.040 327.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.060 327.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.078 327.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.092 327.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.100 327.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.100 327.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.094 327.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.084 327.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.070 327.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.055 327.5);
}

Colors that work with #fdc2fb

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#EDC0EB
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B98
Captions on the surface
Accent#30C903
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#7B0478
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FEE6FD
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241424
Dark-mode background
Hover#FC9FF9
One step down in lightness
Pressed#FB7DF7
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F3F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FFD4FE
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 #fdc2fb

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 #7B0478
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #F93CF2

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
  • Weight12/100
  • 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#C2FDC4
Analogous left#E1C2FD
Analogous right#FDC2DD
Split-complement 1#DDFDC2
Split-complement 2#C2FDE1
Triadic 1#FBFDC2
Triadic 2#C2FBFD
Tetradic#FDE1C2
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°302°

#fdc2fb sits at 302°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red99.2%
Green76.1%
Blue98.4%
R · 0–255
253
0xfd
G · 0–255
194
0xc2
B · 0–255
251
0xfb

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta23.3%
Yellow0.8%
Key (black)0.8%

Total ink coverage is 25%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#fdc2fb text on a black background

contrast 14.29:1

Card sample

#fdc2fb text on a white background

contrast 1.47:1

Card sample

#fdc2fb on grey

1.34:1

#fdc2fb on its own surface

1.36:1

#fdc2fb on its dark surface

11.90:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #fdc2fb;
Background color
Panel with #fdc2fb background
background-color: #fdc2fb;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #fdc2fb;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(253, 194, 251, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(253, 194, 251, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #fdc2fb;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #fdc2fb, #FDC2D4);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fdc2fb, #FDC2C5);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #fdc2fb;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #fdc2fb;
caret-color: #fdc2fb;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #fdc2fb;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FEE6FD;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #fdc2fb;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#fdc2fb 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #fdc2fb 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, 194, 251, 0.5)
rgb(253 194 251 / 50%)
#fdc2fb80
hsl(302 94% 88% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #fdc2fb 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#fdc2fb1a#FFF9FF
20%#fdc2fb33#FFF3FE
40%#fdc2fb66#FEE7FD
60%#fdc2fb99#FEDAFD
80%#fdc2fbcc#FDCEFC

Gradients from #fdc2fb

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, #FEEBFE, #fdc2fb 45%, #7B0478);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #fdc2fb, #FCA4B7);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fdc2fb, #C2FDC4);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FFF0FE 0%, #fdc2fb 45%, #7B0478 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%, #F8F3FF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FEDFEB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #7B0478 0%, transparent 65%), #fdc2fb;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #fdc2fb

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.

#fdc2fb 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 14.29:1.

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.

#fdc2fb, answered

What color is #fdc2fb?

#fdc2fb is a pale electric magenta / pink, closest to Plum (ΔE2000 8.3). It sits at 302° on the hue wheel with 94% saturation and 88% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #fdc2fb?

rgb(253, 194, 251) — 253 red, 194 green and 251 blue out of 255, or 99.2% / 76.1% / 98.4% by channel.

What is #fdc2fb in HSL and HSV?

hsl(302, 94%, 88%) and hsv(302, 23%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #fdc2fb a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6643 and perceived brightness is 86%, so black text on it reaches 14.29:1.

Should I use black or white text on #fdc2fb?

Black. It scores 14.29:1 against #fdc2fb, versus 1.47:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #fdc2fb accessible on a white background?

#fdc2fb on white scores 1.47:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #D207CC to reach 4.5:1, or #9C0597 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #fdc2fb?

#C2FDC4 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #DDFDC2 and #C2FDE1, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #fdc2fb?

For interface work: #FAF4FA as the surface, #EDC0EB for borders, #9B4B98 for secondary text, #30C903 as an accent and #7B0478 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #E1C2FD and #FDC2DD stays calm, while #C2FDC4 is the loudest partner.

What is #fdc2fb in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 23%, 1%, 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 #fdc2fb warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 49 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FDC2E5; nudged cooler, #E9C1FE.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #fdc2fb?

The fuchsia family — its 500 step is #d946ef, ΔE2000 26 away. That is a visible difference, so define #fdc2fb as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #fdc2fb in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#fdc2fb] or text-[#fdc2fb], 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 #fdc2fb with 50% opacity?

rgba(253, 194, 251, 0.5), or #fdc2fb80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FEE1FD; over black, #7F617E.

Is #fdc2fb a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFCCFF, ΔE2000 2.4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #fdc2fb 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 #fdc2fb?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FEEBFE, #fdc2fb 45%, #7B0478). For more colour, a short hue run to #FCA4B7 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #fdc2fb in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #fdc2fb at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.