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magenta / pink · warm

#e7bccf

a light, vivid magenta / pink · warm · closest name: Thistle

Token name suggestion: Meadow Fuchsia

RGB
231, 188, 207
HSL
334°, 47%, 82%
CMYK
0, 19, 10, 9
Luminance
0.5746

#e7bccf is a light vivid magenta / pink, 334° on the wheel and 31/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (12.49:1). As text it scores 1.68:1 on white — use #BF4B7E instead. Nearest name is Thistle, nearest Tailwind family is pink.

hsl(334 47% 82%)rgb(231 188 207)Base step 300AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #e7bccf is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#e7bccf
Hue
334°
magenta / pink
Saturation
47%
vivid
Lightness
82%
light
Brightness
91%
HSV value
Perceived
80%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5746
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
31/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
12.49:1
Closest name
Thistle
ΔE2000 5.6
Chroma
18.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.838
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
pink
500 · ΔE 25.2
Web-safe
#FFCCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue334° of 360°
Saturation47%
Lightness82%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #e7bccf.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool31% 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
Red30%
Green63%
Blue8%

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

Every format

HEX#e7bccf
HEX (8-digit)#e7bccfff
RGBrgb(231, 188, 207)
RGBArgba(231, 188, 207, 1)
HSLhsl(334, 47%, 82%)
HSV / HSBhsv(333, 19%, 91%)
HWBhwb(334 74% 9%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 19%, 10%, 9%)
LABlab(80.4 18.4 -3.7)
LCHlch(80.4 18.8 348.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.838 0.055 350.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(62.20, 57.46, 66.83)
Decimal15187151
Display P3color(display-p3 0.906 0.737 0.812)
Web-safe#FFCCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #e7bccf;
background-color: #e7bccf;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #e7bccf;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#e7bccf] bg-[#e7bccf]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #e7bccf;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.906, green: 0.737, blue: 0.812)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.906, green: 0.737, blue: 0.812, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#E7BCCF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFE7BCCF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFE7BCCF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(207, 188, 231)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(231, 188, 207)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(231, 188, 207)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 231, 188, 207)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9059f, 0.7373f, 0.8118f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{231,188,207}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #e7bccf 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #e7bccf 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#5E223C, #EED3DF);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #e7bccf 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: #FAF5F7;
  --brand-100: #F5EAEF;
  --brand-200: #ECD0DC;
  --brand-300: #e7bccf;
  --brand-400: #D383A6;
  --brand-500: #C45A89;
  --brand-600: #B44174;
  --brand-700: #963660;
  --brand-800: #782B4D;
  --brand-900: #58233A;
  --brand-950: #371624;
  --brand: #e7bccf;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4F7;
  --brand-border: #E9C3D4;
  --brand-hover: #DEA2BC;
  --brand-pressed: #D488A9;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #24141B;
    --brand-ink: #EED3DF;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAF5F7',
        100: '#F5EAEF',
        200: '#ECD0DC',
        300: '#e7bccf',
        400: '#D383A6',
        500: '#C45A89',
        600: '#B44174',
        700: '#963660',
        800: '#782B4D',
        900: '#58233A',
        950: '#371624',
        DEFAULT: '#e7bccf',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAF5F7,
  '100': #F5EAEF,
  '200': #ECD0DC,
  '300': #e7bccf,
  '400': #D383A6,
  '500': #C45A89,
  '600': #B44174,
  '700': #963660,
  '800': #782B4D,
  '900': #58233A,
  '950': #371624,
);
$brand-base: #e7bccf;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FAF5F7", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F5EAEF", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#ECD0DC", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#e7bccf", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#D383A6", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#C45A89", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#B44174", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#963660", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#782B4D", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#58233A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#371624", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #e7bccf · 12.49:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.68:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 12.49:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #e7bccf as text scores 1.68:1 on white and 12.49:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #5E223C at 7.06:1.

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
#BF4B7E · 4.64:1
AA on white−30% L
#BF4B7E
The quick fox
#93355E · 7.21:1
AAA on white−43% L
#93355E
The quick fox
#e7bccf · 12.49:1
AA on blackalready passes
#e7bccf
The quick fox
#e7bccf · 12.49:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#e7bccf

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #CF799F 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
#e7bccf on white: 1.68:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#e7bccf on black: 12.49:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #e7bccf as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #e7bccf.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.68:1AaAa
Slate 501.61:1AaAa
Slate 1001.53:1AaAa
Slate 2001.36:1AaAa
Slate 3001.13:1AaAa
Slate 4001.53:1AaAa
Slate 5002.83:1AaAa
Slate 6004.51:1AaAa
Slate 7006.16:1AaAa
Slate 8008.70:1AaAa
Slate 90010.62:1AaAa
Black12.49:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #BFC3D0
deuteranopia · #C9CACE
tritanopia · #EEBBC2

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. #e7bccf is pinned to step 300; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FAF5F7
#F5EAEF
#ECD0DC
#e7bccf
#D383A6
#C45A89
#B44174
#963660
#782B4D
#58233A
#371624
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #FAF5F7Darkest = 950 · #371624Text 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 0.014 350.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.022 350.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.033 350.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.043 350.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.051 350.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.055 350.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.055 350.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.052 350.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.046 350.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.038 350.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.030 350.0);
}

Colors that work with #e7bccf

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#FAF4F7
Tinted page background
Border#E9C3D4
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B6E
Captions on the surface
Accent#319B53
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#5E223C
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F8ECF2
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#24141B
Dark-mode background
Hover#DEA2BC
One step down in lightness
Pressed#D488A9
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F3F5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F0C8D9
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 #e7bccf

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 #5E223C
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #CF799F

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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. The lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight18/100
  • 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#BCE7D4
Analogous left#E7BCE5
Analogous right#E7BFBC
Split-complement 1#BCE7BF
Split-complement 2#BCE5E7
Triadic 1#CFE7BC
Triadic 2#BCCFE7
Tetradic#E5E7BC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°334°

#e7bccf sits at 334°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red90.6%
Green73.7%
Blue81.2%
R · 0–255
231
0xe7
G · 0–255
188
0xbc
B · 0–255
207
0xcf

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta18.6%
Yellow10.4%
Key (black)9.4%

Total ink coverage is 38%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#e7bccf text on a black background

contrast 12.49:1

Card sample

#e7bccf text on a white background

contrast 1.68:1

Card sample

#e7bccf on grey

1.53:1

#e7bccf on its own surface

1.55:1

#e7bccf on its dark surface

10.49:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #e7bccf;
Background color
Panel with #e7bccf background
background-color: #e7bccf;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #e7bccf;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(231, 188, 207, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(231, 188, 207, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #e7bccf;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #e7bccf, #E7C6BC);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #e7bccf, #E7D1BC);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #e7bccf;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #e7bccf;
caret-color: #e7bccf;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #e7bccf;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F8ECF2;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #e7bccf;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#e7bccf 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #e7bccf 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(231, 188, 207, 0.5)
rgb(231 188 207 / 50%)
#e7bccf80
hsl(334 47% 82% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #e7bccf 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#e7bccf1a#FDF8FA
20%#e7bccf33#FAF2F5
40%#e7bccf66#F5E4EC
60%#e7bccf99#F1D7E2
80%#e7bccfcc#ECC9D9

Gradients from #e7bccf

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, #F7E9EF, #e7bccf 45%, #5E223C);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #e7bccf, #DFB7A6);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #e7bccf, #BCE7D4);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FBF4F7 0%, #e7bccf 45%, #5E223C 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF4F7, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #F4E2F5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #EFD7D3 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #5E223C 0%, transparent 65%), #e7bccf;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #e7bccf

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.

#e7bccf 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

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

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 12.49:1.

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.

#e7bccf, answered

What color is #e7bccf?

#e7bccf is a light vivid magenta / pink, closest to Thistle (ΔE2000 5.6). It sits at 334° on the hue wheel with 47% saturation and 82% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #e7bccf?

rgb(231, 188, 207) — 231 red, 188 green and 207 blue out of 255, or 90.6% / 73.7% / 81.2% by channel.

What is #e7bccf in HSL and HSV?

hsl(334, 47%, 82%) and hsv(333, 19%, 91%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #e7bccf a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5746 and perceived brightness is 80%, so black text on it reaches 12.49:1.

Should I use black or white text on #e7bccf?

Black. It scores 12.49:1 against #e7bccf, versus 1.68:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #e7bccf accessible on a white background?

#e7bccf on white scores 1.68:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #BF4B7E to reach 4.5:1, or #93355E for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #e7bccf?

#BCE7D4 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #BCE7BF and #BCE5E7, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #e7bccf?

For interface work: #FAF4F7 as the surface, #E9C3D4 for borders, #9B4B6E for secondary text, #319B53 as an accent and #5E223C for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #E7BCE5 and #E7BFBC stays calm, while #BCE7D4 is the loudest partner.

What is #e7bccf in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 19%, 10%, 9%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #e7bccf warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 31 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #E7BCBF; nudged cooler, #E8BBDF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #e7bccf?

The pink family — its 500 step is #ec4899, ΔE2000 25.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #e7bccf as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #e7bccf in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#e7bccf] or text-[#e7bccf], 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 #e7bccf with 50% opacity?

rgba(231, 188, 207, 0.5), or #e7bccf80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F3DEE7; over black, #745E68.

Is #e7bccf a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFCCCC, ΔE2000 8.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #e7bccf 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 #e7bccf?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F7E9EF, #e7bccf 45%, #5E223C). For more colour, a short hue run to #DFB7A6 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #e7bccf in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #e7bccf at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.