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magenta / pink · warm

#eb9fcc

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

Token name suggestion: Morning Peony

RGB
235, 159, 204
HSL
325°, 66%, 77%
CMYK
0, 32, 13, 8
Luminance
0.4682

#eb9fcc is a light vivid magenta / pink, 325° on the wheel and 36/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (10.36:1). As text it scores 2.03:1 on white — use #D43192 instead. Nearest name is Plum, nearest Tailwind family is pink.

hsl(325 66% 77%)rgb(235 159 204)Base step 300AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #eb9fcc is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#eb9fcc
Hue
325°
magenta / pink
Saturation
66%
vivid
Lightness
77%
light
Brightness
92%
HSV value
Perceived
75%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4682
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
36/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
10.36:1
Closest name
Plum
ΔE2000 6
Chroma
36.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.790
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
pink
500 · ΔE 17.7
Web-safe
#FF99CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue325° of 360°
Saturation66%
Lightness77%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #eb9fcc.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool36% 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
Red38%
Green53%
Blue9%

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

Every format

HEX#eb9fcc
HEX (8-digit)#eb9fccff
RGBrgb(235, 159, 204)
RGBArgba(235, 159, 204, 1)
HSLhsl(325, 66%, 77%)
HSV / HSBhsv(324, 32%, 92%)
HWBhwb(325 62% 8%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 32%, 13%, 8%)
LABlab(74.1 34.8 -11.5)
LCHlch(74.1 36.6 341.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.790 0.106 343.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(57.56, 46.82, 63.12)
Decimal15441868
Display P3color(display-p3 0.922 0.624 0.800)
Web-safe#FF99CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #eb9fcc;
background-color: #eb9fcc;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #eb9fcc;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#eb9fcc] bg-[#eb9fcc]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #eb9fcc;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.922, green: 0.624, blue: 0.800)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.922, green: 0.624, blue: 0.800, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#EB9FCC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFEB9FCC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFEB9FCC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(204, 159, 235)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(235, 159, 204)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(235, 159, 204)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 235, 159, 204)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9216f, 0.6235f, 0.8000f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{235,159,204}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #eb9fcc 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #eb9fcc 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#6A1647, #EED3E3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #eb9fcc 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: #FBF3F8;
  --brand-100: #F8E8F1;
  --brand-200: #F1CBE1;
  --brand-300: #eb9fcc;
  --brand-400: #E274B5;
  --brand-500: #D8459C;
  --brand-600: #CB2A89;
  --brand-700: #A92372;
  --brand-800: #871C5B;
  --brand-900: #621844;
  --brand-950: #3D0F2A;
  --brand: #eb9fcc;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4F8;
  --brand-border: #EDC0DA;
  --brand-hover: #E582BC;
  --brand-pressed: #DF64AD;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #24141E;
    --brand-ink: #EED3E3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF3F8',
        100: '#F8E8F1',
        200: '#F1CBE1',
        300: '#eb9fcc',
        400: '#E274B5',
        500: '#D8459C',
        600: '#CB2A89',
        700: '#A92372',
        800: '#871C5B',
        900: '#621844',
        950: '#3D0F2A',
        DEFAULT: '#eb9fcc',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF3F8,
  '100': #F8E8F1,
  '200': #F1CBE1,
  '300': #eb9fcc,
  '400': #E274B5,
  '500': #D8459C,
  '600': #CB2A89,
  '700': #A92372,
  '800': #871C5B,
  '900': #621844,
  '950': #3D0F2A,
);
$brand-base: #eb9fcc;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF3F8", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F8E8F1", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F1CBE1", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#eb9fcc", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#E274B5", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#D8459C", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#CB2A89", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#A92372", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#871C5B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#621844", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3D0F2A", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #eb9fcc · 10.36:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.03:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 10.36:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #eb9fcc as text scores 2.03:1 on white and 10.36:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #6A1647 at 5.70:1.

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
#D43192 · 4.51:1
AA on white−26% L
#D43192
The quick fox
#A2226D · 7.03:1
AAA on white−39% L
#A2226D
The quick fox
#eb9fcc · 10.36:1
AA on blackalready passes
#eb9fcc
The quick fox
#eb9fcc · 10.36:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#eb9fcc

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #E06DB1 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
#eb9fcc on white: 2.03:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#eb9fcc on black: 10.36:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #eb9fcc as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #eb9fcc.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.03:1AaAa
Slate 501.94:1AaAa
Slate 1001.85:1AaAa
Slate 2001.64:1AaAa
Slate 3001.36:1AaAa
Slate 4001.27:1AaAa
Slate 5002.35:1AaAa
Slate 6003.74:1AaAa
Slate 7005.11:1AaAa
Slate 8007.22:1AaAa
Slate 9008.81:1AaAa
Black10.36:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #A3AFCE
deuteranopia · #B6BBCA
tritanopia · #F49FAF

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. #eb9fcc 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.

#FBF3F8
#F8E8F1
#F1CBE1
#eb9fcc
#E274B5
#D8459C
#CB2A89
#A92372
#871C5B
#621844
#3D0F2A
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #FBF3F8Darkest = 950 · #3D0F2AText 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 0.027 343.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.043 343.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.064 343.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.083 343.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.098 343.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.106 343.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.106 343.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.100 343.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.089 343.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.074 343.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.058 343.5);
}

Colors that work with #eb9fcc

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#FAF4F8
Tinted page background
Border#EDC0DA
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B7A
Captions on the surface
Accent#20AC36
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#6A1647
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FBEAF4
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#24141E
Dark-mode background
Hover#E582BC
One step down in lightness
Pressed#DF64AD
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F3F5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F3ABD6
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 #eb9fcc

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 #6A1647
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #E06DB1

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
  • Weight23/100
  • 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#9FEBBE
Analogous left#E49FEB
Analogous right#EB9FA6
Split-complement 1#A6EB9F
Split-complement 2#9FEBE4
Triadic 1#CCEB9F
Triadic 2#9FCCEB
Tetradic#EBE49F
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°325°

#eb9fcc sits at 325°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red92.2%
Green62.4%
Blue80.0%
R · 0–255
235
0xeb
G · 0–255
159
0x9f
B · 0–255
204
0xcc

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta32.3%
Yellow13.2%
Key (black)7.8%

Total ink coverage is 53%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#eb9fcc text on a black background

contrast 10.36:1

Card sample

#eb9fcc text on a white background

contrast 2.03:1

Card sample

#eb9fcc on grey

1.85:1

#eb9fcc on its own surface

1.87:1

#eb9fcc on its dark surface

8.68:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #eb9fcc;
Background color
Panel with #eb9fcc background
background-color: #eb9fcc;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #eb9fcc;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(235, 159, 204, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(235, 159, 204, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #eb9fcc;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #eb9fcc, #EBA59F);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #eb9fcc, #EBB89F);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #eb9fcc;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #eb9fcc;
caret-color: #eb9fcc;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #eb9fcc;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FBEAF4;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #eb9fcc;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#eb9fcc 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #eb9fcc 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(235, 159, 204, 0.5)
rgb(235 159 204 / 50%)
#eb9fcc80
hsl(325 66% 77% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #eb9fcc 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#eb9fcc1a#FDF5FA
20%#eb9fcc33#FBECF5
40%#eb9fcc66#F7D9EB
60%#eb9fcc99#F3C5E0
80%#eb9fcccc#EFB2D6

Gradients from #eb9fcc

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, #F6D2E7, #eb9fcc 45%, #6A1647);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #eb9fcc, #E69586);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #eb9fcc, #9FEBBE);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FBEBF4 0%, #eb9fcc 45%, #6A1647 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF4F8, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #ECC9F4 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F0B9B9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #6A1647 0%, transparent 65%), #eb9fcc;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #eb9fcc

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.

#eb9fcc 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 10.36:1.

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.

#eb9fcc, answered

What color is #eb9fcc?

#eb9fcc is a light vivid magenta / pink, closest to Plum (ΔE2000 6). It sits at 325° on the hue wheel with 66% saturation and 77% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #eb9fcc?

rgb(235, 159, 204) — 235 red, 159 green and 204 blue out of 255, or 92.2% / 62.4% / 80% by channel.

What is #eb9fcc in HSL and HSV?

hsl(325, 66%, 77%) and hsv(324, 32%, 92%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #eb9fcc a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4682 and perceived brightness is 75%, so black text on it reaches 10.36:1.

Should I use black or white text on #eb9fcc?

Black. It scores 10.36:1 against #eb9fcc, versus 2.03:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #eb9fcc accessible on a white background?

#eb9fcc on white scores 2.03:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #D43192 to reach 4.5:1, or #A2226D for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #eb9fcc?

#9FEBBE sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #A6EB9F and #9FEBE4, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #eb9fcc?

For interface work: #FAF4F8 as the surface, #EDC0DA for borders, #9B4B7A for secondary text, #20AC36 as an accent and #6A1647 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #E49FEB and #EB9FA6 stays calm, while #9FEBBE is the loudest partner.

What is #eb9fcc in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 32%, 13%, 8%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #eb9fcc warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 36 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #EB9FB0; nudged cooler, #EC9EE9.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #eb9fcc?

The pink family — its 500 step is #ec4899, ΔE2000 17.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #eb9fcc as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #eb9fcc in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#eb9fcc] or text-[#eb9fcc], 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 #eb9fcc with 50% opacity?

rgba(235, 159, 204, 0.5), or #eb9fcc80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F5CFE6; over black, #765066.

Is #eb9fcc a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FF99CC, ΔE2000 4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #eb9fcc 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 #eb9fcc?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F6D2E7, #eb9fcc 45%, #6A1647). For more colour, a short hue run to #E69586 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #eb9fcc in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #eb9fcc at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.