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#fbeceb

a pale, vivid red · warm · closest name: Lavender Blush

Token name suggestion: Mist Ember

RGB
251, 236, 235
HSL
4°, 67%, 95%
CMYK
0, 6, 6, 2
Luminance
0.8650

#fbeceb is a pale vivid red, 4° on the wheel and 15/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.30:1). As text it scores 1.15:1 on white — use #D63F34 instead. Nearest name is Lavender Blush, nearest Tailwind family is yellow.

hsl(4 67% 95%)rgb(251 236 235)Base step 100AAA inkWarm

At a glance

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

Hex
#fbeceb
Hue
red
Saturation
67%
vivid
Lightness
95%
pale
Brightness
98%
HSV value
Perceived
94%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8650
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
15/100 cool
Color family
Red
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
18.30:1
Closest name
Lavender Blush
ΔE2000 2.9
Chroma
5.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.955
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
yellow
500 · ΔE 31.6
Web-safe
#FFFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue4° of 360°
Saturation67%
Lightness95%
Saturation × lightness field

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

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool15% 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
Red24%
Green69%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#fbeceb
HEX (8-digit)#fbecebff
RGBrgb(251, 236, 235)
RGBArgba(251, 236, 235, 1)
HSLhsl(4, 67%, 95%)
HSV / HSBhsv(4, 6%, 98%)
HWBhwb(4 92% 2%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 6%, 6%, 2%)
LABlab(94.5 4.9 2.3)
LCHlch(94.5 5.4 25.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.955 0.016 22.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(84.77, 86.50, 90.81)
Decimal16510187
Display P3color(display-p3 0.984 0.925 0.922)
Web-safe#FFFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #fbeceb;
background-color: #fbeceb;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #fbeceb;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#fbeceb] bg-[#fbeceb]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #fbeceb;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.984, green: 0.925, blue: 0.922)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.984, green: 0.925, blue: 0.922, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FBECEB</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFBECEB)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFBECEB)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(235, 236, 251)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(251, 236, 235)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(251, 236, 235)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 251, 236, 235)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9843f, 0.9255f, 0.9216f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{251,236,235}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #fbeceb 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #fbeceb 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#6A1B15, #EED4D3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #fbeceb 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: #FBF4F3;
  --brand-100: #fbeceb;
  --brand-200: #F1CDCA;
  --brand-300: #ECA6A1;
  --brand-400: #E37A73;
  --brand-500: #DA4D44;
  --brand-600: #CC3329;
  --brand-700: #AA2B22;
  --brand-800: #88221B;
  --brand-900: #631C18;
  --brand-950: #3E120F;
  --brand: #fbeceb;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF5F4;
  --brand-border: #EDC3C0;
  --brand-hover: #F5D0CD;
  --brand-pressed: #EFB4B0;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241514;
    --brand-ink: #EED4D3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF4F3',
        100: '#fbeceb',
        200: '#F1CDCA',
        300: '#ECA6A1',
        400: '#E37A73',
        500: '#DA4D44',
        600: '#CC3329',
        700: '#AA2B22',
        800: '#88221B',
        900: '#631C18',
        950: '#3E120F',
        DEFAULT: '#fbeceb',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF4F3,
  '100': #fbeceb,
  '200': #F1CDCA,
  '300': #ECA6A1,
  '400': #E37A73,
  '500': #DA4D44,
  '600': #CC3329,
  '700': #AA2B22,
  '800': #88221B,
  '900': #631C18,
  '950': #3E120F,
);
$brand-base: #fbeceb;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF4F3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#fbeceb", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F1CDCA", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#ECA6A1", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#E37A73", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#DA4D44", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#CC3329", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#AA2B22", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#88221B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#631C18", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3E120F", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #fbeceb · 18.30:1
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 · 18.30:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #fbeceb as text scores 1.15:1 on white and 18.30:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #6A1B15 at 10.28:1.

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
#D63F34 · 4.55:1
AA on white−43% L
#D63F34
The quick fox
#A72A21 · 7.01:1
AAA on white−56% L
#A72A21
The quick fox
#fbeceb · 18.30:1
AA on blackalready passes
#fbeceb
The quick fox
#fbeceb · 18.30:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#fbeceb

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #E2736B 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
#fbeceb on white: 1.15:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#fbeceb on black: 18.30:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

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

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 5004.15:1AaAa
Slate 6006.60:1AaAa
Slate 7009.02:1AaAa
Slate 80012.75:1AaAa
Slate 90015.56:1AaAa
Black18.30:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EFEEEB
deuteranopia · #F2F0EB
tritanopia · #FFEBEC

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. #fbeceb 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.

#FBF4F3
#fbeceb
#F1CDCA
#ECA6A1
#E37A73
#DA4D44
#CC3329
#AA2B22
#88221B
#631C18
#3E120F
Base = 100Lightest = 50 · #FBF4F3Darkest = 950 · #3E120FText 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 22.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.007 22.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.010 22.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.013 22.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.015 22.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.016 22.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.016 22.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.015 22.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.014 22.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.011 22.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.009 22.1);
}

Colors that work with #fbeceb

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#FAF5F4
Tinted page background
Border#EDC3C0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B504B
Captions on the surface
Accent#22AA91
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#6A1B15
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FBEBEA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241514
Dark-mode background
Hover#F5D0CD
One step down in lightness
Pressed#EFB4B0
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F3F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FADDDB
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

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #fbeceb

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 #6A1B15
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #E2736B

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
  • Weight5/100
  • 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#EBFAFB
Analogous left#FBEBF2
Analogous right#FBF4EB
Split-complement 1#EBFBF4
Split-complement 2#EBF2FB
Triadic 1#EBFBEC
Triadic 2#ECEBFB
Tetradic#F2FBEB
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°4°

#fbeceb sits at 4°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red98.4%
Green92.5%
Blue92.2%
R · 0–255
251
0xfb
G · 0–255
236
0xec
B · 0–255
235
0xeb

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta6.0%
Yellow6.4%
Key (black)1.6%

Total ink coverage is 14%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#fbeceb text on a black background

contrast 18.30:1

Card sample

#fbeceb text on a white background

contrast 1.15:1

Card sample

#fbeceb on grey

1.05:1

#fbeceb on its own surface

1.06:1

#fbeceb on its dark surface

15.35:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

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

Glowing headline

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

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(251, 236, 235, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(251, 236, 235, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #fbeceb;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #fbeceb, #FBF7EB);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

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

Marked up text

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

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #fbeceb 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(251, 236, 235, 0.5)
rgb(251 236 235 / 50%)
#fbeceb80
hsl(4 67% 95% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #fbeceb 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#fbeceb1a#FFFDFD
20%#fbeceb33#FEFBFB
40%#fbeceb66#FDF7F7
60%#fbeceb99#FDF4F3
80%#fbecebcc#FCF0EF

Gradients from #fbeceb

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, #FCEFEE, #fbeceb 45%, #6A1B15);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #fbeceb, #F6EFD2);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fbeceb, #EBFAFB);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FCF3F2 0%, #fbeceb 45%, #6A1B15 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF5F4, #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%, #6A1B15 0%, transparent 65%), #fbeceb;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #fbeceb

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.

#fbeceb 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

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 18.30:1.

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.

#fbeceb, answered

What color is #fbeceb?

#fbeceb is a pale vivid red, closest to Lavender Blush (ΔE2000 2.9). It sits at 4° on the hue wheel with 67% saturation and 95% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #fbeceb?

rgb(251, 236, 235) — 251 red, 236 green and 235 blue out of 255, or 98.4% / 92.5% / 92.2% by channel.

What is #fbeceb in HSL and HSV?

hsl(4, 67%, 95%) and hsv(4, 6%, 98%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #fbeceb a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8650 and perceived brightness is 94%, so black text on it reaches 18.30:1.

Should I use black or white text on #fbeceb?

Black. It scores 18.30:1 against #fbeceb, versus 1.15:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #fbeceb accessible on a white background?

#fbeceb on white scores 1.15:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #D63F34 to reach 4.5:1, or #A72A21 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #fbeceb?

#EBFAFB sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #EBFBF4 and #EBF2FB, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #fbeceb?

For interface work: #FAF5F4 as the surface, #EDC3C0 for borders, #9B504B for secondary text, #22AA91 as an accent and #6A1B15 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FBEBF2 and #FBF4EB stays calm, while #EBFAFB is the loudest partner.

What is #fbeceb in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 6%, 6%, 2%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #fbeceb warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 15 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FBF1EB; nudged cooler, #FBEBF0.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #fbeceb?

The yellow family — its 500 step is #eab308, ΔE2000 31.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #fbeceb as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #fbeceb in Tailwind CSS?

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

rgba(251, 236, 235, 0.5), or #fbeceb80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FDF6F5; over black, #7E7676.

Is #fbeceb a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFFF, ΔE2000 7.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #fbeceb 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 #fbeceb?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FCEFEE, #fbeceb 45%, #6A1B15). For more colour, a short hue run to #F6EFD2 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #fbeceb in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

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