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magenta / pink · warm

#df079e

a balanced, electric magenta / pink · warm · closest name: Medium Violet Red

Token name suggestion: Signal Peony

RGB
223, 7, 158
HSL
318°, 94%, 45%
CMYK
0, 97, 29, 13
Luminance
0.1831

#df079e is a balanced electric magenta / pink, 318° on the wheel and 40/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (4.66:1). As text it scores 4.50:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Medium Violet Red, nearest Tailwind family is pink.

hsl(318 94% 45%)rgb(223 7 158)Base step 600AA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #df079e is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#df079e
Hue
318°
magenta / pink
Saturation
94%
electric
Lightness
45%
balanced
Brightness
87%
HSV value
Perceived
52%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1831
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
40/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
4.66:1
Closest name
Medium Violet Red
ΔE2000 5.8
Chroma
83.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.602
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
pink
500 · ΔE 8.6
Web-safe
#CC0099
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue318° of 360°
Saturation94%
Lightness45%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #df079e.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool40% 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
Red86%
Green1%
Blue13%

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

Every format

HEX#df079e
HEX (8-digit)#df079eff
RGBrgb(223, 7, 158)
RGBArgba(223, 7, 158, 1)
HSLhsl(318, 94%, 45%)
HSV / HSBhsv(318, 97%, 87%)
HWBhwb(318 3% 13%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 97%, 29%, 13%)
LABlab(49.9 80.1 -22.0)
LCHlch(49.9 83.1 344.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.602 0.252 346.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(36.68, 18.31, 33.94)
Decimal14616478
Display P3color(display-p3 0.875 0.027 0.620)
Web-safe#CC0099

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #df079e;
background-color: #df079e;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #df079e;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#df079e] bg-[#df079e]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #df079e;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.875, green: 0.027, blue: 0.620)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.875, green: 0.027, blue: 0.620, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#DF079E</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFDF079E)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFDF079E)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(158, 7, 223)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(223, 7, 158)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(223, 7, 158)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 223, 7, 158)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8745f, 0.0275f, 0.6196f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{223,7,158}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #df079e 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #df079e 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#7C0457, #EED3E6);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #df079e 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: #FDF2FA;
  --brand-100: #FBE4F4;
  --brand-200: #FAC2E9;
  --brand-300: #FC92DC;
  --brand-400: #FA5CCA;
  --brand-500: #F825B9;
  --brand-600: #df079e;
  --brand-700: #C6068C;
  --brand-800: #9E0570;
  --brand-900: #720852;
  --brand-950: #470533;
  --brand: #df079e;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4F9;
  --brand-border: #EDC0DF;
  --brand-hover: #BC0685;
  --brand-pressed: #9A056D;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #24141F;
    --brand-ink: #EED3E6;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDF2FA',
        100: '#FBE4F4',
        200: '#FAC2E9',
        300: '#FC92DC',
        400: '#FA5CCA',
        500: '#F825B9',
        600: '#df079e',
        700: '#C6068C',
        800: '#9E0570',
        900: '#720852',
        950: '#470533',
        DEFAULT: '#df079e',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDF2FA,
  '100': #FBE4F4,
  '200': #FAC2E9,
  '300': #FC92DC,
  '400': #FA5CCA,
  '500': #F825B9,
  '600': #df079e,
  '700': #C6068C,
  '800': #9E0570,
  '900': #720852,
  '950': #470533,
);
$brand-base: #df079e;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FDF2FA", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FBE4F4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#FAC2E9", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#FC92DC", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#FA5CCA", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#F825B9", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#df079e", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#C6068C", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#9E0570", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#720852", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#470533", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #df079e · 4.66:1
Use #000000AA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 4.50:1
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.66:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #df079e as text scores 4.50:1 on white and 4.66:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #7C0457 at 2.32:1.

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
#df079e · 4.50:1
AA on whitealready passes
#df079e
The quick fox
#A90577 · 7.06:1
AAA on white−11% L
#A90577
The quick fox
#df079e · 4.66:1
AA on blackalready passes
#df079e
The quick fox
#FA52C7 · 7.10:1
AAA on black+20% L
#FA52C7

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #DF079E 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
#df079e on white: 4.50:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#df079e on black: 4.66:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #df079e as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #df079e.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White4.50:1AaAa
Slate 504.31:1AaAa
Slate 1004.11:1AaAa
Slate 2003.65:1AaAa
Slate 3003.03:1AaAa
Slate 4001.76:1AaAa
Slate 5001.06:1AaAa
Slate 6001.68:1AaAa
Slate 7002.30:1AaAa
Slate 8003.25:1AaAa
Slate 9003.96:1AaAa
Black4.66:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #3C61A1
deuteranopia · #7A829A
tritanopia · #EF005D

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. #df079e is pinned to step 600; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FDF2FA
#FBE4F4
#FAC2E9
#FC92DC
#FA5CCA
#F825B9
#df079e
#C6068C
#9E0570
#720852
#470533
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #FDF2FADarkest = 950 · #470533Text 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 0.063 346.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.101 346.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.151 346.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.196 346.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.232 346.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.252 346.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.252 346.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.237 346.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.212 346.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.176 346.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.139 346.6);
}

Colors that work with #df079e

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#FAF4F9
Tinted page background
Border#EDC0DF
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B83
Captions on the surface
Accent#02CA0C
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#7C0457
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FEE6F7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#24141F
Dark-mode background
Hover#BC0685
One step down in lightness
Pressed#9A056D
Two steps down
Disabled#BE99B2
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FA00AF
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 #df079e

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Any size
Safe as a fill behind white type
Yes
Safe as a 1px border on white
Yes

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 mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight55/100
  • 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#07DF48
Analogous left#B407DF
Analogous right#DF0732
Split-complement 1#32DF07
Split-complement 2#07DFB4
Triadic 1#9EDF07
Triadic 2#079EDF
Tetradic#DFB407
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°318°

#df079e sits at 318°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red87.5%
Green2.7%
Blue62.0%
R · 0–255
223
0xdf
G · 0–255
7
0x07
B · 0–255
158
0x9e

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta96.9%
Yellow29.1%
Key (black)12.5%

Total ink coverage is 139%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#df079e text on a black background

contrast 4.66:1

Card sample

#df079e text on a white background

contrast 4.50:1

Card sample

#df079e on grey

4.11:1

#df079e on its own surface

4.16:1

#df079e on its dark surface

3.90:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #df079e;
Background color
Panel with #df079e background
background-color: #df079e;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #df079e;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(223, 7, 158, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(223, 7, 158, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #df079e;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #df079e, #DF070E);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #df079e, #DF3607);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #df079e;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #df079e;
caret-color: #df079e;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #df079e;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FEE6F7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #df079e;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#df079e 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #df079e 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(223, 7, 158, 0.5)
rgb(223 7 158 / 50%)
#df079e80
hsl(318 94% 45% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #df079e 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#df079e1a#FCE6F5
20%#df079e33#F9CDEC
40%#df079e66#F29CD8
60%#df079e99#EC6AC5
80%#df079ecc#E539B1

Gradients from #df079e

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, #F82BBA, #df079e 45%, #7C0457);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #df079e, #C11006);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #df079e, #07DF48);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F949C4 0%, #df079e 45%, #7C0457 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF4F9, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #BB21F8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F70D28 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #7C0457 0%, transparent 65%), #df079e;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #df079e

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.

#df079e 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
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
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 4.66:1.

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.

#df079e, answered

What color is #df079e?

#df079e is a balanced electric magenta / pink, closest to Medium Violet Red (ΔE2000 5.8). It sits at 318° on the hue wheel with 94% saturation and 45% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #df079e?

rgb(223, 7, 158) — 223 red, 7 green and 158 blue out of 255, or 87.5% / 2.7% / 62% by channel.

What is #df079e in HSL and HSV?

hsl(318, 94%, 45%) and hsv(318, 97%, 87%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #df079e a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.1831 and perceived brightness is 52%, so black text on it reaches 4.66:1.

Should I use black or white text on #df079e?

Black. It scores 4.66:1 against #df079e, versus 4.50:1 for white — AA at any size.

Is #df079e accessible on a white background?

#df079e on white scores 4.50:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #df079e?

#07DF48 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #32DF07 and #07DFB4, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #df079e?

For interface work: #FAF4F9 as the surface, #EDC0DF for borders, #9B4B83 for secondary text, #02CA0C as an accent and #7C0457 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #B407DF and #DF0732 stays calm, while #07DF48 is the loudest partner.

What is #df079e in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 97%, 29%, 13%). 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 #df079e warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 40 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #DF074F; nudged cooler, #D305E1.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #df079e?

The pink family — its 500 step is #ec4899, ΔE2000 8.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #df079e as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #df079e in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#df079e] or text-[#df079e], 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 #df079e with 50% opacity?

rgba(223, 7, 158, 0.5), or #df079e80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EF83CF; over black, #70044F.

Is #df079e a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CC0099, ΔE2000 4.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #df079e 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 #df079e?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F82BBA, #df079e 45%, #7C0457). For more colour, a short hue run to #C11006 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #df079e in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #df079e at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.