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#f7dcd4

a pale, vivid red · warm · closest name: Misty Rose

Token name suggestion: Whisper Ember

RGB
247, 220, 212
HSL
14°, 69%, 90%
CMYK
0, 11, 14, 3
Luminance
0.7571

#f7dcd4 is a pale vivid red, 14° on the wheel and 9/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (16.14:1). As text it scores 1.30:1 on white — use #CA4B26 instead. Nearest name is Misty Rose, nearest Tailwind family is amber.

hsl(14 69% 90%)rgb(247 220 212)Base step 200AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f7dcd4 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f7dcd4
Hue
14°
red
Saturation
69%
vivid
Lightness
90%
pale
Brightness
97%
HSV value
Perceived
89%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7571
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
9/100 cool
Color family
Red
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
16.14:1
Closest name
Misty Rose
ΔE2000 2.9
Chroma
10.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.914
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
amber
500 · ΔE 27.7
Web-safe
#FFCCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue14° of 360°
Saturation69%
Lightness90%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f7dcd4.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool9% 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
Red26%
Green68%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#f7dcd4
HEX (8-digit)#f7dcd4ff
RGBrgb(247, 220, 212)
RGBArgba(247, 220, 212, 1)
HSLhsl(14, 69%, 90%)
HSV / HSBhsv(14, 14%, 97%)
HWBhwb(14 83% 3%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 11%, 14%, 3%)
LABlab(89.7 8.0 7.3)
LCHlch(89.7 10.9 42.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.914 0.032 37.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(75.83, 75.72, 72.89)
Decimal16243924
Display P3color(display-p3 0.969 0.863 0.831)
Web-safe#FFCCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f7dcd4;
background-color: #f7dcd4;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f7dcd4;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f7dcd4] bg-[#f7dcd4]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f7dcd4;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.969, green: 0.863, blue: 0.831)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.969, green: 0.863, blue: 0.831, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F7DCD4</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF7DCD4)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF7DCD4)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(212, 220, 247)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(247, 220, 212)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(247, 220, 212)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 247, 220, 212)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9686f, 0.8627f, 0.8314f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{247,220,212}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f7dcd4 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f7dcd4 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#6B2814, #EED9D3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f7dcd4 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: #FBF5F3;
  --brand-100: #F8EBE8;
  --brand-200: #f7dcd4;
  --brand-300: #EDB2A0;
  --brand-400: #E58B71;
  --brand-500: #DC6542;
  --brand-600: #CE4D26;
  --brand-700: #AC4020;
  --brand-800: #8A331A;
  --brand-900: #642817;
  --brand-950: #3E190E;
  --brand: #f7dcd4;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF6F4;
  --brand-border: #EDCAC0;
  --brand-hover: #F1C3B6;
  --brand-pressed: #ECAB98;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241714;
    --brand-ink: #EED9D3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF5F3',
        100: '#F8EBE8',
        200: '#f7dcd4',
        300: '#EDB2A0',
        400: '#E58B71',
        500: '#DC6542',
        600: '#CE4D26',
        700: '#AC4020',
        800: '#8A331A',
        900: '#642817',
        950: '#3E190E',
        DEFAULT: '#f7dcd4',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF5F3,
  '100': #F8EBE8,
  '200': #f7dcd4,
  '300': #EDB2A0,
  '400': #E58B71,
  '500': #DC6542,
  '600': #CE4D26,
  '700': #AC4020,
  '800': #8A331A,
  '900': #642817,
  '950': #3E190E,
);
$brand-base: #f7dcd4;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF5F3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F8EBE8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#f7dcd4", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#EDB2A0", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#E58B71", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#DC6542", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#CE4D26", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#AC4020", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#8A331A", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#642817", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3E190E", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f7dcd4 · 16.14:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.30:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 16.14:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f7dcd4 as text scores 1.30:1 on white and 16.14:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #6B2814 at 8.33:1.

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
#CA4B26 · 4.62:1
AA on white−43% L
#CA4B26
The quick fox
#96381C · 7.29:1
AAA on white−55% L
#96381C
The quick fox
#f7dcd4 · 16.14:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f7dcd4
The quick fox
#f7dcd4 · 16.14:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f7dcd4

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #E07657 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
#f7dcd4 on white: 1.30:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f7dcd4 on black: 16.14:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f7dcd4 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f7dcd4.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.30:1AaAa
Slate 501.24:1AaAa
Slate 1001.19:1AaAa
Slate 2001.06:1AaAa
Slate 3001.14:1AaAa
Slate 4001.97:1AaAa
Slate 5003.66:1AaAa
Slate 6005.82:1AaAa
Slate 7007.96:1AaAa
Slate 80011.25:1AaAa
Slate 90013.72:1AaAa
Black16.14:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E2DFD3
deuteranopia · #E8E4D4
tritanopia · #FED9DA

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. #f7dcd4 is pinned to step 200; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FBF5F3
#F8EBE8
#f7dcd4
#EDB2A0
#E58B71
#DC6542
#CE4D26
#AC4020
#8A331A
#642817
#3E190E
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #FBF5F3Darkest = 950 · #3E190EText step on white = 700
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 0.008 37.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.013 37.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.019 37.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.025 37.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.029 37.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.032 37.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.032 37.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.030 37.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.027 37.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.022 37.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.018 37.1);
}

Colors that work with #f7dcd4

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#FAF6F4
Tinted page background
Border#EDCAC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B5D4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#1CB0AC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#6B2814
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FBEDEA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241714
Dark-mode background
Hover#F1C3B6
One step down in lightness
Pressed#ECAB98
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F4F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FBE2DB
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
Your export is ready

The file stays available for seven days. Download it before it expires.

NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #f7dcd4

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
  • Status meaning — pair it with an icon or label, never colour alone
  • 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 #6B2814
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #E07657

Meaning and mood

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

urgentappetisingboldphysical

Red arrives before the rest of the page does. It raises attention and appetite, which is why it runs food, sport and clearance pricing.

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

It is also the universal error colour. Use it as a brand accent and users may read a warning that is not there.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight10/100
  • 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#D4EFF7
Analogous left#F7D4DE
Analogous right#F7EDD4
Split-complement 1#D4F7ED
Split-complement 2#D4DEF7
Triadic 1#D4F7DC
Triadic 2#DCD4F7
Tetradic#DEF7D4
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°14°

#f7dcd4 sits at 14°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red96.9%
Green86.3%
Blue83.1%
R · 0–255
247
0xf7
G · 0–255
220
0xdc
B · 0–255
212
0xd4

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta10.9%
Yellow14.2%
Key (black)3.1%

Total ink coverage is 28%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#f7dcd4 text on a black background

contrast 16.14:1

Card sample

#f7dcd4 text on a white background

contrast 1.30:1

Card sample

#f7dcd4 on grey

1.19:1

#f7dcd4 on its own surface

1.21:1

#f7dcd4 on its dark surface

13.37:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f7dcd4;
Background color
Panel with #f7dcd4 background
background-color: #f7dcd4;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f7dcd4;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(247, 220, 212, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(247, 220, 212, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f7dcd4;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f7dcd4, #F7F3D4);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f7dcd4, #F2F7D4);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f7dcd4;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f7dcd4;
caret-color: #f7dcd4;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f7dcd4;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FBEDEA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f7dcd4;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f7dcd4 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f7dcd4 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(247, 220, 212, 0.5)
rgb(247 220 212 / 50%)
#f7dcd480
hsl(14 69% 90% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f7dcd4 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f7dcd41a#FEFCFB
20%#f7dcd433#FDF8F6
40%#f7dcd466#FCF1EE
60%#f7dcd499#FAEAE5
80%#f7dcd4cc#F9E3DD

Gradients from #f7dcd4

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, #FCF1EE, #f7dcd4 45%, #6B2814);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f7dcd4, #F2F1BA);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f7dcd4, #D4EFF7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FDF4F2 0%, #f7dcd4 45%, #6B2814 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF6F4, #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%, #FCF9EE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #6B2814 0%, transparent 65%), #f7dcd4;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f7dcd4

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.

#f7dcd4 in the real world

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

Industries
Food and drinkEntertainmentRetailSport
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

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 16.14:1.

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.

#f7dcd4, answered

What color is #f7dcd4?

#f7dcd4 is a pale vivid red, closest to Misty Rose (ΔE2000 2.9). It sits at 14° on the hue wheel with 69% saturation and 90% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #f7dcd4?

rgb(247, 220, 212) — 247 red, 220 green and 212 blue out of 255, or 96.9% / 86.3% / 83.1% by channel.

What is #f7dcd4 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(14, 69%, 90%) and hsv(14, 14%, 97%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f7dcd4 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7571 and perceived brightness is 89%, so black text on it reaches 16.14:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f7dcd4?

Black. It scores 16.14:1 against #f7dcd4, versus 1.30:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f7dcd4 accessible on a white background?

#f7dcd4 on white scores 1.30:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #CA4B26 to reach 4.5:1, or #96381C for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f7dcd4?

#D4EFF7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #D4F7ED and #D4DEF7, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f7dcd4?

For interface work: #FAF6F4 as the surface, #EDCAC0 for borders, #9B5D4B for secondary text, #1CB0AC as an accent and #6B2814 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F7D4DE and #F7EDD4 stays calm, while #D4EFF7 is the loudest partner.

What is #f7dcd4 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 11%, 14%, 3%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #f7dcd4 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 9 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F7E2D4; nudged cooler, #F8D3D8.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f7dcd4?

The amber family — its 500 step is #f59e0b, ΔE2000 27.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f7dcd4 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f7dcd4 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f7dcd4] or text-[#f7dcd4], 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 #f7dcd4 with 50% opacity?

rgba(247, 220, 212, 0.5), or #f7dcd480 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FBEEEA; over black, #7C6E6A.

Is #f7dcd4 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFCCCC, ΔE2000 8.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f7dcd4 mean?

As a red, it reads urgent, appetising, bold. Red arrives before the rest of the page does. It raises attention and appetite, which is why it runs food, sport and clearance pricing. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #f7dcd4?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FCF1EE, #f7dcd4 45%, #6B2814). For more colour, a short hue run to #F2F1BA keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f7dcd4 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f7dcd4 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.