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violet · cool

#f5f2f7

a pale, soft violet · cool · closest name: Ghost White

Token name suggestion: Mist Thistle

RGB
245, 242, 247
HSL
276°, 24%, 96%
CMYK
1, 2, 0, 3
Luminance
0.8963

#f5f2f7 is a pale soft violet, 276° on the wheel and 59/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.93:1). As text it scores 1.11:1 on white — use #8A67A2 instead. Nearest name is Ghost White, nearest Tailwind family is yellow.

hsl(276 24% 96%)rgb(245 242 247)Base step 50AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f5f2f7 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f5f2f7
Hue
276°
violet
Saturation
24%
soft
Lightness
96%
pale
Brightness
97%
HSV value
Perceived
95%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8963
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
59/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
18.93:1
Closest name
Ghost White
ΔE2000 1.9
Chroma
2.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.965
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
yellow
500 · ΔE 34.1
Web-safe
#FFFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue276° of 360°
Saturation24%
Lightness96%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f5f2f7.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool59% cool

Reads cool. 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#f5f2f7
HEX (8-digit)#f5f2f7ff
RGBrgb(245, 242, 247)
RGBArgba(245, 242, 247, 1)
HSLhsl(276, 24%, 96%)
HSV / HSBhsv(276, 2%, 97%)
HWBhwb(276 95% 3%)
CMYKcmyk(1%, 2%, 0%, 3%)
LABlab(95.8 1.9 -2.0)
LCHlch(95.8 2.8 312.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.965 0.007 312.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(86.19, 89.63, 100.74)
Decimal16118519
Display P3color(display-p3 0.961 0.949 0.969)
Web-safe#FFFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f5f2f7;
background-color: #f5f2f7;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f5f2f7;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f5f2f7] bg-[#f5f2f7]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f5f2f7;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.961, green: 0.949, blue: 0.969)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.961, green: 0.949, blue: 0.969, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F5F2F7</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF5F2F7)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF5F2F7)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(247, 242, 245)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(245, 242, 247)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(245, 242, 247)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 245, 242, 247)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9608f, 0.9490f, 0.9686f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{245,242,247}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f5f2f7 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f5f2f7 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#43314F, #E2D9E8);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f5f2f7 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: #f5f2f7;
  --brand-100: #F0EDF3;
  --brand-200: #DFD7E5;
  --brand-300: #CABAD4;
  --brand-400: #AF97BF;
  --brand-500: #9474AA;
  --brand-600: #805D98;
  --brand-700: #6B4E7E;
  --brand-800: #553E65;
  --brand-900: #40304B;
  --brand-950: #281E2F;
  --brand: #f5f2f7;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F8F6F9;
  --brand-border: #D8CCE0;
  --brand-hover: #E4DCE9;
  --brand-pressed: #D3C6DC;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1D1523;
    --brand-ink: #E2D9E8;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#f5f2f7',
        100: '#F0EDF3',
        200: '#DFD7E5',
        300: '#CABAD4',
        400: '#AF97BF',
        500: '#9474AA',
        600: '#805D98',
        700: '#6B4E7E',
        800: '#553E65',
        900: '#40304B',
        950: '#281E2F',
        DEFAULT: '#f5f2f7',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #f5f2f7,
  '100': #F0EDF3,
  '200': #DFD7E5,
  '300': #CABAD4,
  '400': #AF97BF,
  '500': #9474AA,
  '600': #805D98,
  '700': #6B4E7E,
  '800': #553E65,
  '900': #40304B,
  '950': #281E2F,
);
$brand-base: #f5f2f7;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#f5f2f7", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F0EDF3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DFD7E5", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#CABAD4", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#AF97BF", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#9474AA", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#805D98", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#6B4E7E", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#553E65", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#40304B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#281E2F", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f5f2f7 · 18.93:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.11:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.93:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f5f2f7 as text scores 1.11:1 on white and 18.93:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #43314F at 10.57:1.

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
#8A67A2 · 4.62:1
AA on white−44% L
#8A67A2
The quick fox
#684C7B · 7.22:1
AAA on white−57% L
#684C7B
The quick fox
#f5f2f7 · 18.93:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f5f2f7
The quick fox
#f5f2f7 · 18.93:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f5f2f7

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #A58AB7 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
#f5f2f7 on white: 1.11:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f5f2f7 on black: 18.93:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f5f2f7 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f5f2f7.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.11:1AaAa
Slate 501.06:1AaAa
Slate 1001.01:1AaAa
Slate 2001.11:1AaAa
Slate 3001.34:1AaAa
Slate 4002.31:1AaAa
Slate 5004.29:1AaAa
Slate 6006.83:1AaAa
Slate 7009.33:1AaAa
Slate 80013.18:1AaAa
Slate 90016.09:1AaAa
Black18.93:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F1F3F7
deuteranopia · #F2F3F7
tritanopia · #F5F3F4

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. #f5f2f7 is pinned to step 50; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#f5f2f7
#F0EDF3
#DFD7E5
#CABAD4
#AF97BF
#9474AA
#805D98
#6B4E7E
#553E65
#40304B
#281E2F
Base = 50Lightest = 50 · #f5f2f7Darkest = 950 · #281E2FText 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 0.002 312.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.003 312.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.004 312.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.006 312.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.007 312.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.007 312.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.007 312.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.007 312.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.006 312.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.005 312.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.004 312.3);
}

Colors that work with #f5f2f7

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#F8F6F9
Tinted page background
Border#D8CCE0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#78578E
Captions on the surface
Accent#6B7E4E
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#43314F
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F3EFF5
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1D1523
Dark-mode background
Hover#E4DCE9
One step down in lightness
Pressed#D3C6DC
Two steps down
Disabled#F5F3F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#ECE4F1
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
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GlobexActive

How to use #f5f2f7

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

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary 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 #43314F
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #A58AB7

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

creativepremiummodernimaginative

Violet sits between the warmth of red and the calm of blue, so it reads as inventive without reading as risky. Current shorthand for software craft.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. The high lightness makes it recede — a surface colour rather than a statement.

Worth knowing

Deep violets swallow detail on screens with poor gamma; check it on a cheap laptop panel.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium
  • Weight4/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • 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#F4F7F2
Analogous left#F3F2F7
Analogous right#F7F2F7
Split-complement 1#F7F7F2
Split-complement 2#F2F7F3
Triadic 1#F7F5F2
Triadic 2#F2F7F5
Tetradic#F7F3F2
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°276°

#f5f2f7 sits at 276°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red96.1%
Green94.9%
Blue96.9%
R · 0–255
245
0xf5
G · 0–255
242
0xf2
B · 0–255
247
0xf7

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.8%
Magenta2.0%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)3.1%

Total ink coverage is 6%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#f5f2f7 text on a black background

contrast 18.93:1

Card sample

#f5f2f7 text on a white background

contrast 1.11:1

Card sample

#f5f2f7 on grey

1.01:1

#f5f2f7 on its own surface

1.03:1

#f5f2f7 on its dark surface

15.99:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f5f2f7;
Background color
Panel with #f5f2f7 background
background-color: #f5f2f7;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f5f2f7;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(245, 242, 247, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(245, 242, 247, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f5f2f7;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f5f2f7, #F7F2F6);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f5f2f7, #F7F2F4);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f5f2f7;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f5f2f7;
caret-color: #f5f2f7;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f5f2f7;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F3EFF5;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f5f2f7;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f5f2f7 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f5f2f7 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(245, 242, 247, 0.5)
rgb(245 242 247 / 50%)
#f5f2f780
hsl(276 24% 96% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f5f2f7 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f5f2f71a#FEFEFE
20%#f5f2f733#FDFCFD
40%#f5f2f766#FBFAFC
60%#f5f2f799#F9F7FA
80%#f5f2f7cc#F7F5F9

Gradients from #f5f2f7

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, #F5F2F7, #f5f2f7 45%, #43314F);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f5f2f7, #EBDFE7);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f5f2f7, #F4F7F2);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F8F6F9 0%, #f5f2f7 45%, #43314F 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F8F6F9, #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%, #43314F 0%, transparent 65%), #f5f2f7;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f5f2f7

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.

#f5f2f7 in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
Creative toolsFintechBeautyLuxury
Common UI roles
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
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 18.93:1.

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.

#f5f2f7, answered

What color is #f5f2f7?

#f5f2f7 is a pale soft violet, closest to Ghost White (ΔE2000 1.9). It sits at 276° on the hue wheel with 24% saturation and 96% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #f5f2f7?

rgb(245, 242, 247) — 245 red, 242 green and 247 blue out of 255, or 96.1% / 94.9% / 96.9% by channel.

What is #f5f2f7 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(276, 24%, 96%) and hsv(276, 2%, 97%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f5f2f7 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8963 and perceived brightness is 95%, so black text on it reaches 18.93:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f5f2f7?

Black. It scores 18.93:1 against #f5f2f7, versus 1.11:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f5f2f7 accessible on a white background?

#f5f2f7 on white scores 1.11:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #8A67A2 to reach 4.5:1, or #684C7B for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f5f2f7?

#F4F7F2 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F7F7F2 and #F2F7F3, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f5f2f7?

For interface work: #F8F6F9 as the surface, #D8CCE0 for borders, #78578E for secondary text, #6B7E4E as an accent and #43314F for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F3F2F7 and #F7F2F7 stays calm, while #F4F7F2 is the loudest partner.

What is #f5f2f7 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(1%, 2%, 0%, 3%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #f5f2f7 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 59 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F7F2F7; nudged cooler, #F3F2F7.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f5f2f7?

The yellow family — its 500 step is #eab308, ΔE2000 34.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f5f2f7 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f5f2f7 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f5f2f7] or text-[#f5f2f7], 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 #f5f2f7 with 50% opacity?

rgba(245, 242, 247, 0.5), or #f5f2f780 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FAF9FB; over black, #7B797C.

Is #f5f2f7 a web-safe color?

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

What does the color #f5f2f7 mean?

As a violet, it reads creative, premium, modern. Violet sits between the warmth of red and the calm of blue, so it reads as inventive without reading as risky. Current shorthand for software craft. At this moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #f5f2f7?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F5F2F7, #f5f2f7 45%, #43314F). For more colour, a short hue run to #EBDFE7 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f5f2f7 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f5f2f7 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.