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violet · cool

#f6eef9

a pale, vivid violet · cool · closest name: Lavender Blush

Token name suggestion: Frost Thistle

RGB
246, 238, 249
HSL
284°, 48%, 96%
CMYK
1, 4, 0, 2
Luminance
0.8758

#f6eef9 is a pale vivid violet, 284° on the wheel and 59/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.52:1). As text it scores 1.13:1 on white — use #A454C2 instead. Nearest name is Lavender Blush, nearest Tailwind family is neutral.

hsl(284 48% 96%)rgb(246 238 249)Base step 50AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f6eef9 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f6eef9
Hue
284°
violet
Saturation
48%
vivid
Lightness
96%
pale
Brightness
98%
HSV value
Perceived
95%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8758
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
59/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
18.52:1
Closest name
Lavender Blush
ΔE2000 3.6
Chroma
6.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.959
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
neutral
500 · ΔE 36
Web-safe
#FFFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue284° of 360°
Saturation48%
Lightness96%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f6eef9.

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%
Green70%
Blue8%

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

Every format

HEX#f6eef9
HEX (8-digit)#f6eef9ff
RGBrgb(246, 238, 249)
RGBArgba(246, 238, 249, 1)
HSLhsl(284, 48%, 96%)
HSV / HSBhsv(284, 4%, 98%)
HWBhwb(284 93% 2%)
CMYKcmyk(1%, 4%, 0%, 2%)
LABlab(95.0 4.6 -4.3)
LCHlch(95.0 6.3 316.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.959 0.017 316.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(85.68, 87.58, 102.00)
Decimal16183033
Display P3color(display-p3 0.965 0.933 0.976)
Web-safe#FFFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f6eef9;
background-color: #f6eef9;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f6eef9;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f6eef9] bg-[#f6eef9]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f6eef9;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.965, green: 0.933, blue: 0.976)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.965, green: 0.933, blue: 0.976, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F6EEF9</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF6EEF9)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF6EEF9)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(249, 238, 246)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(246, 238, 249)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(246, 238, 249)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 246, 238, 249)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9647f, 0.9333f, 0.9765f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{246,238,249}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f6eef9 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f6eef9 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#4E215E, #E7D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f6eef9 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: #f6eef9;
  --brand-100: #F2EAF5;
  --brand-200: #E4D0EC;
  --brand-300: #D3ACE2;
  --brand-400: #BD83D3;
  --brand-500: #A759C4;
  --brand-600: #9540B5;
  --brand-700: #7C3597;
  --brand-800: #632B79;
  --brand-900: #492258;
  --brand-950: #2E1537;
  --brand: #f6eef9;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9F4FA;
  --brand-border: #DFC3EA;
  --brand-hover: #E8D4F0;
  --brand-pressed: #DAB9E6;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #201424;
    --brand-ink: #E7D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#f6eef9',
        100: '#F2EAF5',
        200: '#E4D0EC',
        300: '#D3ACE2',
        400: '#BD83D3',
        500: '#A759C4',
        600: '#9540B5',
        700: '#7C3597',
        800: '#632B79',
        900: '#492258',
        950: '#2E1537',
        DEFAULT: '#f6eef9',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #f6eef9,
  '100': #F2EAF5,
  '200': #E4D0EC,
  '300': #D3ACE2,
  '400': #BD83D3,
  '500': #A759C4,
  '600': #9540B5,
  '700': #7C3597,
  '800': #632B79,
  '900': #492258,
  '950': #2E1537,
);
$brand-base: #f6eef9;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#f6eef9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F2EAF5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E4D0EC", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D3ACE2", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#BD83D3", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#A759C4", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#9540B5", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#7C3597", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#632B79", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#492258", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2E1537", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f6eef9 · 18.52:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.13:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.52:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f6eef9 as text scores 1.13:1 on white and 18.52:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #4E215E at 10.87:1.

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
#A454C2 · 4.54:1
AA on white−41% L
#A454C2
The quick fox
#81379C · 7.09:1
AAA on white−54% L
#81379C
The quick fox
#f6eef9 · 18.52:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f6eef9
The quick fox
#f6eef9 · 18.52:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f6eef9

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #BA7DD1 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
#f6eef9 on white: 1.13:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f6eef9 on black: 18.52:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f6eef9 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f6eef9.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.13:1AaAa
Slate 501.08:1AaAa
Slate 1001.04:1AaAa
Slate 2001.09:1AaAa
Slate 3001.31:1AaAa
Slate 4002.26:1AaAa
Slate 5004.20:1AaAa
Slate 6006.68:1AaAa
Slate 7009.13:1AaAa
Slate 80012.90:1AaAa
Slate 90015.74:1AaAa
Black18.52:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EDF0FA
deuteranopia · #EEF1F9
tritanopia · #F6EFF1

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. #f6eef9 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.

#f6eef9
#F2EAF5
#E4D0EC
#D3ACE2
#BD83D3
#A759C4
#9540B5
#7C3597
#632B79
#492258
#2E1537
Base = 50Lightest = 50 · #f6eef9Darkest = 950 · #2E1537Text 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 0.004 316.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.007 316.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.010 316.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.013 316.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.015 316.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.017 316.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.017 316.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.016 316.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.014 316.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.012 316.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.009 316.9);
}

Colors that work with #f6eef9

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#F9F4FA
Tinted page background
Border#DFC3EA
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#854B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#6A9735
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#4E215E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F5ECF8
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#201424
Dark-mode background
Hover#E8D4F0
One step down in lightness
Pressed#DAB9E6
Two steps down
Disabled#F6F3F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F0DFF6
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
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #f6eef9

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 #4E215E
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #BA7DD1

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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. 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-high
  • Weight5/100
  • 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#F1F9EE
Analogous left#F1EEF9
Analogous right#F9EEF7
Split-complement 1#F7F9EE
Split-complement 2#EEF9F1
Triadic 1#F9F6EE
Triadic 2#EEF9F6
Tetradic#F9F1EE
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°284°

#f6eef9 sits at 284°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red96.5%
Green93.3%
Blue97.6%
R · 0–255
246
0xf6
G · 0–255
238
0xee
B · 0–255
249
0xf9

CMYK percentages

Cyan1.2%
Magenta4.4%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)2.4%

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

Color previews

#f6eef9 text on a black background

contrast 18.52:1

Card sample

#f6eef9 text on a white background

contrast 1.13:1

Card sample

#f6eef9 on grey

1.04:1

#f6eef9 on its own surface

1.04:1

#f6eef9 on its dark surface

15.60:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f6eef9;
Background color
Panel with #f6eef9 background
background-color: #f6eef9;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f6eef9;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(246, 238, 249, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(246, 238, 249, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f6eef9;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f6eef9, #F9EEF5);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f6eef9, #F9EEF2);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f6eef9;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f6eef9;
caret-color: #f6eef9;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f6eef9;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F5ECF8;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f6eef9;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f6eef9 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f6eef9 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(246, 238, 249, 0.5)
rgb(246 238 249 / 50%)
#f6eef980
hsl(284 48% 96% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f6eef9 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f6eef91a#FEFDFE
20%#f6eef933#FDFCFE
40%#f6eef966#FBF8FD
60%#f6eef999#FAF5FB
80%#f6eef9cc#F8F1FA

Gradients from #f6eef9

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, #F7F0FA, #f6eef9 45%, #4E215E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f6eef9, #F1D7E5);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f6eef9, #F1F9EE);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F9F4FB 0%, #f6eef9 45%, #4E215E 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F9F4FA, #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%, #4E215E 0%, transparent 65%), #f6eef9;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f6eef9

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.

#f6eef9 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 18.52:1.

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.

#f6eef9, answered

What color is #f6eef9?

#f6eef9 is a pale vivid violet, closest to Lavender Blush (ΔE2000 3.6). It sits at 284° on the hue wheel with 48% saturation and 96% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #f6eef9?

rgb(246, 238, 249) — 246 red, 238 green and 249 blue out of 255, or 96.5% / 93.3% / 97.6% by channel.

What is #f6eef9 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(284, 48%, 96%) and hsv(284, 4%, 98%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f6eef9 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8758 and perceived brightness is 95%, so black text on it reaches 18.52:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f6eef9?

Black. It scores 18.52:1 against #f6eef9, versus 1.13:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f6eef9 accessible on a white background?

#f6eef9 on white scores 1.13:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #A454C2 to reach 4.5:1, or #81379C for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f6eef9?

#F1F9EE sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F7F9EE and #EEF9F1, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f6eef9?

For interface work: #F9F4FA as the surface, #DFC3EA for borders, #854B9B for secondary text, #6A9735 as an accent and #4E215E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F1EEF9 and #F9EEF7 stays calm, while #F1F9EE is the loudest partner.

What is #f6eef9 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(1%, 4%, 0%, 2%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #f6eef9 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 #F9EEF8; nudged cooler, #F2EEF9.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f6eef9?

The neutral family — its 500 step is #737373, ΔE2000 36 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f6eef9 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f6eef9 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f6eef9] or text-[#f6eef9], 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 #f6eef9 with 50% opacity?

rgba(246, 238, 249, 0.5), or #f6eef980 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FBF7FC; over black, #7B777D.

Is #f6eef9 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFFF, ΔE2000 7.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f6eef9 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 chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #f6eef9?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F7F0FA, #f6eef9 45%, #4E215E). For more colour, a short hue run to #F1D7E5 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f6eef9 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f6eef9 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.