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magenta / pink · warm

#fcbfe4

a pale, electric magenta / pink · warm · closest name: Pink

Token name suggestion: Whisper Peony

RGB
252, 191, 228
HSL
324°, 91%, 87%
CMYK
0, 24, 10, 1
Luminance
0.6356

#fcbfe4 is a pale electric magenta / pink, 324° on the wheel and 37/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.71:1). As text it scores 1.53:1 on white — use #E00B8C instead. Nearest name is Pink, nearest Tailwind family is pink.

hsl(324 91% 87%)rgb(252 191 228)Base step 200AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #fcbfe4 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#fcbfe4
Hue
324°
magenta / pink
Saturation
91%
electric
Lightness
87%
pale
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
84%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6356
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
37/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
13.71:1
Closest name
Pink
ΔE2000 8.2
Chroma
29.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.871
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
pink
500 · ΔE 24.7
Web-safe
#FFCCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue324° of 360°
Saturation91%
Lightness87%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #fcbfe4.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool37% 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
Red33%
Green59%
Blue9%

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

Every format

HEX#fcbfe4
HEX (8-digit)#fcbfe4ff
RGBrgb(252, 191, 228)
RGBArgba(252, 191, 228, 1)
HSLhsl(324, 91%, 87%)
HSV / HSBhsv(324, 24%, 99%)
HWBhwb(324 75% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 24%, 10%, 1%)
LABlab(83.7 27.5 -9.9)
LCHlch(83.7 29.3 340.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.871 0.084 342.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(72.78, 63.56, 81.82)
Decimal16564196
Display P3color(display-p3 0.988 0.749 0.894)
Web-safe#FFCCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #fcbfe4;
background-color: #fcbfe4;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #fcbfe4;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#fcbfe4] bg-[#fcbfe4]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #fcbfe4;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.988, green: 0.749, blue: 0.894)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.988, green: 0.749, blue: 0.894, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FCBFE4</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFCBFE4)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFCBFE4)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(228, 191, 252)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(252, 191, 228)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(252, 191, 228)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 252, 191, 228)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9882f, 0.7490f, 0.8941f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{252,191,228}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #fcbfe4 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #fcbfe4 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#7A064C, #EED3E3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #fcbfe4 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: #FDF2F9;
  --brand-100: #FBE5F2;
  --brand-200: #fcbfe4;
  --brand-300: #FA94D2;
  --brand-400: #F75EBB;
  --brand-500: #F529A5;
  --brand-600: #EA0B92;
  --brand-700: #C3097A;
  --brand-800: #9C0761;
  --brand-900: #700A48;
  --brand-950: #46062D;
  --brand: #fcbfe4;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4F8;
  --brand-border: #EDC0DB;
  --brand-hover: #FA9DD6;
  --brand-pressed: #F97BC7;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #24141E;
    --brand-ink: #EED3E3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDF2F9',
        100: '#FBE5F2',
        200: '#fcbfe4',
        300: '#FA94D2',
        400: '#F75EBB',
        500: '#F529A5',
        600: '#EA0B92',
        700: '#C3097A',
        800: '#9C0761',
        900: '#700A48',
        950: '#46062D',
        DEFAULT: '#fcbfe4',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDF2F9,
  '100': #FBE5F2,
  '200': #fcbfe4,
  '300': #FA94D2,
  '400': #F75EBB,
  '500': #F529A5,
  '600': #EA0B92,
  '700': #C3097A,
  '800': #9C0761,
  '900': #700A48,
  '950': #46062D,
);
$brand-base: #fcbfe4;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FDF2F9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FBE5F2", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#fcbfe4", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#FA94D2", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#F75EBB", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#F529A5", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#EA0B92", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#C3097A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#9C0761", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#700A48", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#46062D", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #fcbfe4 · 13.71:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.53:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 13.71:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #fcbfe4 as text scores 1.53:1 on white and 13.71:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #7A064C at 7.00:1.

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
#E00B8C · 4.57:1
AA on white−41% L
#E00B8C
The quick fox
#AA086A · 7.11:1
AAA on white−52% L
#AA086A
The quick fox
#fcbfe4 · 13.71:1
AA on blackalready passes
#fcbfe4
The quick fox
#fcbfe4 · 13.71:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#fcbfe4

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #F754B7 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
#fcbfe4 on white: 1.53:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#fcbfe4 on black: 13.71:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #fcbfe4 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #fcbfe4.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.53:1AaAa
Slate 501.46:1AaAa
Slate 1001.40:1AaAa
Slate 2001.24:1AaAa
Slate 3001.03:1AaAa
Slate 4001.67:1AaAa
Slate 5003.11:1AaAa
Slate 6004.95:1AaAa
Slate 7006.76:1AaAa
Slate 8009.55:1AaAa
Slate 90011.66:1AaAa
Black13.71:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #C2CBE5
deuteranopia · #D0D4E2
tritanopia · #FFBFCC

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. #fcbfe4 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.

#FDF2F9
#FBE5F2
#fcbfe4
#FA94D2
#F75EBB
#F529A5
#EA0B92
#C3097A
#9C0761
#700A48
#46062D
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #FDF2F9Darkest = 950 · #46062DText 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 0.021 342.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.034 342.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.050 342.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.066 342.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.077 342.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.084 342.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.084 342.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.079 342.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.071 342.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.059 342.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.046 342.0);
}

Colors that work with #fcbfe4

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#FAF4F8
Tinted page background
Border#EDC0DB
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B7B
Captions on the surface
Accent#06C622
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#7A064C
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FEE7F5
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#24141E
Dark-mode background
Hover#FA9DD6
One step down in lightness
Pressed#F97BC7
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F3F5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FFD1ED
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 #fcbfe4

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 #7A064C
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #F754B7

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.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. 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
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight13/100
  • 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#BFFCD7
Analogous left#F6BFFC
Analogous right#FCBFC6
Split-complement 1#C6FCBF
Split-complement 2#BFFCF6
Triadic 1#E4FCBF
Triadic 2#BFE4FC
Tetradic#FCF6BF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°324°

#fcbfe4 sits at 324°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red98.8%
Green74.9%
Blue89.4%
R · 0–255
252
0xfc
G · 0–255
191
0xbf
B · 0–255
228
0xe4

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta24.2%
Yellow9.5%
Key (black)1.2%

Total ink coverage is 35%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#fcbfe4 text on a black background

contrast 13.71:1

Card sample

#fcbfe4 text on a white background

contrast 1.53:1

Card sample

#fcbfe4 on grey

1.40:1

#fcbfe4 on its own surface

1.41:1

#fcbfe4 on its dark surface

11.49:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #fcbfe4;
Background color
Panel with #fcbfe4 background
background-color: #fcbfe4;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #fcbfe4;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(252, 191, 228, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(252, 191, 228, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #fcbfe4;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #fcbfe4, #FCC3BF);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fcbfe4, #FCD2BF);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #fcbfe4;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #fcbfe4;
caret-color: #fcbfe4;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #fcbfe4;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FEE7F5;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #fcbfe4;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#fcbfe4 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #fcbfe4 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(252, 191, 228, 0.5)
rgb(252 191 228 / 50%)
#fcbfe480
hsl(324 91% 87% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #fcbfe4 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#fcbfe41a#FFF9FC
20%#fcbfe433#FEF2FA
40%#fcbfe466#FEE5F4
60%#fcbfe499#FDD9EF
80%#fcbfe4cc#FDCCE9

Gradients from #fcbfe4

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, #FEECF7, #fcbfe4 45%, #7A064C);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #fcbfe4, #FBAFA2);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fcbfe4, #BFFCD7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FEF0F9 0%, #fcbfe4 45%, #7A064C 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF4F8, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #FCF0FE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FDDCDD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #7A064C 0%, transparent 65%), #fcbfe4;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #fcbfe4

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.

#fcbfe4 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
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
Print note

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

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 13.71:1.

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.

#fcbfe4, answered

What color is #fcbfe4?

#fcbfe4 is a pale electric magenta / pink, closest to Pink (ΔE2000 8.2). It sits at 324° on the hue wheel with 91% saturation and 87% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #fcbfe4?

rgb(252, 191, 228) — 252 red, 191 green and 228 blue out of 255, or 98.8% / 74.9% / 89.4% by channel.

What is #fcbfe4 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(324, 91%, 87%) and hsv(324, 24%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #fcbfe4 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6356 and perceived brightness is 84%, so black text on it reaches 13.71:1.

Should I use black or white text on #fcbfe4?

Black. It scores 13.71:1 against #fcbfe4, versus 1.53:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #fcbfe4 accessible on a white background?

#fcbfe4 on white scores 1.53:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #E00B8C to reach 4.5:1, or #AA086A for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #fcbfe4?

#BFFCD7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #C6FCBF and #BFFCF6, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #fcbfe4?

For interface work: #FAF4F8 as the surface, #EDC0DB for borders, #9B4B7B for secondary text, #06C622 as an accent and #7A064C for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F6BFFC and #FCBFC6 stays calm, while #BFFCD7 is the loudest partner.

What is #fcbfe4 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 24%, 10%, 1%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — a color this saturated sits outside most CMYK gamuts and will print duller than it looks here.

Is #fcbfe4 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 37 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FCBFCE; nudged cooler, #FDBFFB.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #fcbfe4?

The pink family — its 500 step is #ec4899, ΔE2000 24.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #fcbfe4 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #fcbfe4 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#fcbfe4] or text-[#fcbfe4], 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 #fcbfe4 with 50% opacity?

rgba(252, 191, 228, 0.5), or #fcbfe480 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FEDFF2; over black, #7E6072.

Is #fcbfe4 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFCCCC, ΔE2000 11.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #fcbfe4 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 chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #fcbfe4?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FEECF7, #fcbfe4 45%, #7A064C). For more colour, a short hue run to #FBAFA2 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #fcbfe4 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #fcbfe4 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.