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magenta / pink · neutral

#f2eef0

a pale, muted magenta / pink · neutral · closest name: Snow

Token name suggestion: Whisper Ruby

RGB
242, 238, 240
HSL
330°, 13%, 94%
CMYK
0, 2, 1, 5
Luminance
0.8632

#f2eef0 is a pale muted magenta / pink, 330° on the wheel and 44/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.26:1). As text it scores 1.15:1 on white — use #8E6D7D instead. Nearest name is Snow, nearest Tailwind family is yellow.

hsl(330 13% 94%)rgb(242 238 240)Base step 100AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f2eef0 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f2eef0
Hue
330°
magenta / pink
Saturation
13%
muted
Lightness
94%
pale
Brightness
95%
HSV value
Perceived
94%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8632
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
44/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Muted
Best ink
Black
18.26:1
Closest name
Snow
ΔE2000 2.7
Chroma
1.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.953
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
yellow
500 · ΔE 32.3
Web-safe
#FFFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue330° of 360°
Saturation13%
Lightness94%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f2eef0.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool44% 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
Red22%
Green71%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#f2eef0
HEX (8-digit)#f2eef0ff
RGBrgb(242, 238, 240)
RGBArgba(242, 238, 240, 1)
HSLhsl(330, 13%, 94%)
HSV / HSBhsv(330, 2%, 95%)
HWBhwb(330 93% 5%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 2%, 1%, 5%)
LABlab(94.5 1.7 -0.5)
LCHlch(94.5 1.8 343.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.953 0.005 345.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(82.92, 86.32, 94.71)
Decimal15920880
Display P3color(display-p3 0.949 0.933 0.941)
Web-safe#FFFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f2eef0;
background-color: #f2eef0;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f2eef0;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f2eef0] bg-[#f2eef0]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f2eef0;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.949, green: 0.933, blue: 0.941)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.949, green: 0.933, blue: 0.941, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F2EEF0</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF2EEF0)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF2EEF0)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(240, 238, 242)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(242, 238, 240)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(242, 238, 240)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 242, 238, 240)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9490f, 0.9333f, 0.9412f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{242,238,240}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f2eef0 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f2eef0 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#483740, #E4DCE0);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f2eef0 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: #F8F7F7;
  --brand-100: #f2eef0;
  --brand-200: #E2DADE;
  --brand-300: #CEBFC7;
  --brand-400: #B6A0AB;
  --brand-500: #9E808F;
  --brand-600: #8B6A7A;
  --brand-700: #745866;
  --brand-800: #5C4752;
  --brand-900: #45363D;
  --brand-950: #2B2226;
  --brand: #f2eef0;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F8F6F7;
  --brand-border: #DCD1D6;
  --brand-hover: #E2DADE;
  --brand-pressed: #D3C6CC;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #20181C;
    --brand-ink: #E4DCE0;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F8F7F7',
        100: '#f2eef0',
        200: '#E2DADE',
        300: '#CEBFC7',
        400: '#B6A0AB',
        500: '#9E808F',
        600: '#8B6A7A',
        700: '#745866',
        800: '#5C4752',
        900: '#45363D',
        950: '#2B2226',
        DEFAULT: '#f2eef0',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F8F7F7,
  '100': #f2eef0,
  '200': #E2DADE,
  '300': #CEBFC7,
  '400': #B6A0AB,
  '500': #9E808F,
  '600': #8B6A7A,
  '700': #745866,
  '800': #5C4752,
  '900': #45363D,
  '950': #2B2226,
);
$brand-base: #f2eef0;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F8F7F7", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#f2eef0", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E2DADE", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#CEBFC7", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#B6A0AB", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#9E808F", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#8B6A7A", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#745866", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#5C4752", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#45363D", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2B2226", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f2eef0 · 18.26:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.15:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.26:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f2eef0 as text scores 1.15:1 on white and 18.26:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #483740 at 9.63:1.

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
#8E6D7D · 4.53:1
AA on white−45% L
#8E6D7D
The quick fox
#6B525F · 7.01:1
AAA on white−57% L
#6B525F
The quick fox
#f2eef0 · 18.26:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f2eef0
The quick fox
#f2eef0 · 18.26:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f2eef0

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #A78C99 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
#f2eef0 on white: 1.15:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f2eef0 on black: 18.26:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f2eef0 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f2eef0.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.15:1AaAa
Slate 501.10:1AaAa
Slate 1001.05:1AaAa
Slate 2001.07:1AaAa
Slate 3001.29:1AaAa
Slate 4002.23:1AaAa
Slate 5004.14:1AaAa
Slate 6006.59:1AaAa
Slate 7009.01:1AaAa
Slate 80012.72:1AaAa
Slate 90015.53:1AaAa
Black18.26:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EEEFF0
deuteranopia · #EFEFF0
tritanopia · #F3EEEF

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. #f2eef0 is pinned to step 100; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F8F7F7
#f2eef0
#E2DADE
#CEBFC7
#B6A0AB
#9E808F
#8B6A7A
#745866
#5C4752
#45363D
#2B2226
Base = 100Lightest = 50 · #F8F7F7Darkest = 950 · #2B2226Text 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 0.001 345.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.002 345.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.003 345.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.004 345.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.005 345.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.005 345.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.005 345.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.005 345.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.004 345.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.003 345.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.003 345.3);
}

Colors that work with #f2eef0

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#F8F6F7
Tinted page background
Border#DCD1D6
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#826373
Captions on the surface
Accent#527A5F
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#483740
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F4F1F2
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#20181C
Dark-mode background
Hover#E2DADE
One step down in lightness
Pressed#D3C6CC
Two steps down
Disabled#F6F3F5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#EFE6EB
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 #f2eef0

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

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Borders, dividers and quiet backgrounds
  • Long-form reading surfaces
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • 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 #483740
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #A78C99

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.

With almost no chroma left, the family association is barely present; treat it as a neutral that happens to lean this way. 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
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyLow
  • Weight6/100
  • 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#EEF2F0
Analogous left#F2EEF2
Analogous right#F2EEEE
Split-complement 1#EEF2EE
Split-complement 2#EEF2F2
Triadic 1#F0F2EE
Triadic 2#EEF0F2
Tetradic#F2F2EE
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°330°

#f2eef0 sits at 330°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red94.9%
Green93.3%
Blue94.1%
R · 0–255
242
0xf2
G · 0–255
238
0xee
B · 0–255
240
0xf0

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta1.7%
Yellow0.8%
Key (black)5.1%

Total ink coverage is 8%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#f2eef0 text on a black background

contrast 18.26:1

Card sample

#f2eef0 text on a white background

contrast 1.15:1

Card sample

#f2eef0 on grey

1.05:1

#f2eef0 on its own surface

1.07:1

#f2eef0 on its dark surface

15.11:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f2eef0;
Background color
Panel with #f2eef0 background
background-color: #f2eef0;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f2eef0;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(242, 238, 240, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(242, 238, 240, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f2eef0;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f2eef0, #F2EFEE);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f2eef0, #F2F0EE);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f2eef0;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f2eef0;
caret-color: #f2eef0;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f2eef0;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F4F1F2;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f2eef0;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f2eef0 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f2eef0 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(242, 238, 240, 0.5)
rgb(242 238 240 / 50%)
#f2eef080
hsl(330 13% 94% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f2eef0 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f2eef01a#FEFDFE
20%#f2eef033#FCFCFC
40%#f2eef066#FAF8F9
60%#f2eef099#F7F5F6
80%#f2eef0cc#F5F1F3

Gradients from #f2eef0

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, #F6F3F5, #f2eef0 45%, #483740);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f2eef0, #E5DFDD);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f2eef0, #EEF2F0);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F8F6F7 0%, #f2eef0 45%, #483740 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F8F6F7, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #483740 0%, transparent 65%), #f2eef0;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f2eef0

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.

#f2eef0 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
BackgroundsBordersBody textDividers
Print note

Very light tints can drop out on uncoated stock; check it at 100% size before signing off.

On screens

Very light values are indistinguishable from white on a dim phone screen outdoors. Give it a border if the boundary matters.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 18.26:1.

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.

#f2eef0, answered

What color is #f2eef0?

#f2eef0 is a pale muted magenta / pink, closest to Snow (ΔE2000 2.7). It sits at 330° on the hue wheel with 13% saturation and 94% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #f2eef0?

rgb(242, 238, 240) — 242 red, 238 green and 240 blue out of 255, or 94.9% / 93.3% / 94.1% by channel.

What is #f2eef0 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(330, 13%, 94%) and hsv(330, 2%, 95%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f2eef0 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8632 and perceived brightness is 94%, so black text on it reaches 18.26:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f2eef0?

Black. It scores 18.26:1 against #f2eef0, versus 1.15:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f2eef0 accessible on a white background?

#f2eef0 on white scores 1.15:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #8E6D7D to reach 4.5:1, or #6B525F for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f2eef0?

#EEF2F0 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #EEF2EE and #EEF2F2, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f2eef0?

For interface work: #F8F6F7 as the surface, #DCD1D6 for borders, #826373 for secondary text, #527A5F as an accent and #483740 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F2EEF2 and #F2EEEE stays calm, while #EEF2F0 is the loudest partner.

What is #f2eef0 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 2%, 1%, 5%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #f2eef0 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 44 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F2EEEE; nudged cooler, #F2EEF2.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f2eef0?

The yellow family — its 500 step is #eab308, ΔE2000 32.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f2eef0 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f2eef0 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f2eef0] or text-[#f2eef0], 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 #f2eef0 with 50% opacity?

rgba(242, 238, 240, 0.5), or #f2eef080 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F9F7F8; over black, #797778.

Is #f2eef0 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFFF, ΔE2000 4.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f2eef0 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 low chroma the association is faint; it behaves more like a neutral.

What gradient works with #f2eef0?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F6F3F5, #f2eef0 45%, #483740). For more colour, a short hue run to #E5DFDD keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f2eef0 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f2eef0 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.