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#fcc3bc

a pale, electric red · warm · closest name: Pink

Token name suggestion: Whisper Cherry

RGB
252, 195, 188
HSL
7°, 91%, 86%
CMYK
0, 23, 25, 1
Luminance
0.6336

#fcc3bc is a pale electric red, 7° on the wheel and 13/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.67:1). As text it scores 1.54:1 on white — use #E7230A instead. Nearest name is Pink, nearest Tailwind family is orange.

hsl(7 91% 86%)rgb(252 195 188)Base step 200AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #fcc3bc is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#fcc3bc
Hue
red
Saturation
91%
electric
Lightness
86%
pale
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
84%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6336
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
13/100 cool
Color family
Red
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
13.67:1
Closest name
Pink
ΔE2000 6.7
Chroma
22.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.866
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
orange
500 · ΔE 26
Web-safe
#FFCCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue7° of 360°
Saturation91%
Lightness86%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #fcc3bc.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool13% 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%
Green62%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#fcc3bc
HEX (8-digit)#fcc3bcff
RGBrgb(252, 195, 188)
RGBArgba(252, 195, 188, 1)
HSLhsl(7, 91%, 86%)
HSV / HSBhsv(7, 25%, 99%)
HWBhwb(7 74% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 23%, 25%, 1%)
LABlab(83.6 19.4 11.4)
LCHlch(83.6 22.4 30.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.866 0.067 26.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(68.74, 63.36, 56.18)
Decimal16565180
Display P3color(display-p3 0.988 0.765 0.737)
Web-safe#FFCCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #fcc3bc;
background-color: #fcc3bc;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #fcc3bc;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#fcc3bc] bg-[#fcc3bc]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #fcc3bc;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.988, green: 0.765, blue: 0.737)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.988, green: 0.765, blue: 0.737, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FCC3BC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFCC3BC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFCC3BC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(188, 195, 252)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(252, 195, 188)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(252, 195, 188)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 252, 195, 188)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9882f, 0.7647f, 0.7373f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{252,195,188}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #fcc3bc 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #fcc3bc 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#7A1205, #EED6D3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #fcc3bc 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: #FDF3F2;
  --brand-100: #FBE7E4;
  --brand-200: #fcc3bc;
  --brand-300: #FA9F94;
  --brand-400: #F86F5E;
  --brand-500: #F53F28;
  --brand-600: #EA230B;
  --brand-700: #C31D09;
  --brand-800: #9C1707;
  --brand-900: #71150A;
  --brand-950: #460D06;
  --brand: #fcc3bc;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF5F4;
  --brand-border: #EDC5C0;
  --brand-hover: #FAA59A;
  --brand-pressed: #F98678;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241514;
    --brand-ink: #EED6D3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDF3F2',
        100: '#FBE7E4',
        200: '#fcc3bc',
        300: '#FA9F94',
        400: '#F86F5E',
        500: '#F53F28',
        600: '#EA230B',
        700: '#C31D09',
        800: '#9C1707',
        900: '#71150A',
        950: '#460D06',
        DEFAULT: '#fcc3bc',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDF3F2,
  '100': #FBE7E4,
  '200': #fcc3bc,
  '300': #FA9F94,
  '400': #F86F5E,
  '500': #F53F28,
  '600': #EA230B,
  '700': #C31D09,
  '800': #9C1707,
  '900': #71150A,
  '950': #460D06,
);
$brand-base: #fcc3bc;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FDF3F2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FBE7E4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#fcc3bc", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#FA9F94", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#F86F5E", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#F53F28", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#EA230B", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#C31D09", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#9C1707", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#71150A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#460D06", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #fcc3bc · 13.67:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.54:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 13.67:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #fcc3bc as text scores 1.54:1 on white and 13.67:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #7A1205 at 7.13:1.

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
#E7230A · 4.52:1
AA on white−39% L
#E7230A
The quick fox
#AC1A08 · 7.23:1
AAA on white−51% L
#AC1A08
The quick fox
#fcc3bc · 13.67:1
AA on blackalready passes
#fcc3bc
The quick fox
#fcc3bc · 13.67:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#fcc3bc

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #F76351 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
#fcc3bc on white: 1.54:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#fcc3bc on black: 13.67:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #fcc3bc as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #fcc3bc.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.54:1AaAa
Slate 501.47:1AaAa
Slate 1001.40:1AaAa
Slate 2001.25:1AaAa
Slate 3001.03:1AaAa
Slate 4001.67:1AaAa
Slate 5003.10:1AaAa
Slate 6004.93:1AaAa
Slate 7006.74:1AaAa
Slate 8009.52:1AaAa
Slate 90011.62:1AaAa
Black13.67:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #CECABB
deuteranopia · #DCD5BB
tritanopia · #FFBCC1

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. #fcc3bc 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.

#FDF3F2
#FBE7E4
#fcc3bc
#FA9F94
#F86F5E
#F53F28
#EA230B
#C31D09
#9C1707
#71150A
#460D06
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #FDF3F2Darkest = 950 · #460D06Text 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 0.017 26.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.027 26.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.040 26.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.052 26.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.061 26.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.067 26.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.067 26.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.063 26.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.056 26.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.047 26.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.037 26.6);
}

Colors that work with #fcc3bc

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#EDC5C0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B534B
Captions on the surface
Accent#06C6AC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#7A1205
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FEE9E7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241514
Dark-mode background
Hover#FAA59A
One step down in lightness
Pressed#F98678
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F3F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FFD3CE
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 #fcc3bc

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 #7A1205
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #F76351

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.

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

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
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight14/100
  • 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#BCF5FC
Analogous left#FCBCD5
Analogous right#FCE3BC
Split-complement 1#BCFCE3
Split-complement 2#BCD5FC
Triadic 1#BCFCC3
Triadic 2#C3BCFC
Tetradic#D5FCBC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°7°

#fcc3bc sits at 7°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red98.8%
Green76.5%
Blue73.7%
R · 0–255
252
0xfc
G · 0–255
195
0xc3
B · 0–255
188
0xbc

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta22.6%
Yellow25.4%
Key (black)1.2%

Total ink coverage is 49%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#fcc3bc text on a black background

contrast 13.67:1

Card sample

#fcc3bc text on a white background

contrast 1.54:1

Card sample

#fcc3bc on grey

1.40:1

#fcc3bc on its own surface

1.42:1

#fcc3bc on its dark surface

11.47:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #fcc3bc;
Background color
Panel with #fcc3bc background
background-color: #fcc3bc;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #fcc3bc;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(252, 195, 188, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(252, 195, 188, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #fcc3bc;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #fcc3bc, #FCEEBC);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fcc3bc, #FAFCBC);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #fcc3bc;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #fcc3bc;
caret-color: #fcc3bc;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #fcc3bc;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FEE9E7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #fcc3bc;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#fcc3bc 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #fcc3bc 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, 195, 188, 0.5)
rgb(252 195 188 / 50%)
#fcc3bc80
hsl(7 91% 86% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #fcc3bc 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#fcc3bc1a#FFF9F8
20%#fcc3bc33#FEF3F2
40%#fcc3bc66#FEE7E4
60%#fcc3bc99#FDDBD7
80%#fcc3bccc#FDCFC9

Gradients from #fcc3bc

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, #FEEEEB, #fcc3bc 45%, #7A1205);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #fcc3bc, #FBEE9F);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fcc3bc, #BCF5FC);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FEF2F0 0%, #fcc3bc 45%, #7A1205 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%, #FEEDF5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FDF2D9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #7A1205 0%, transparent 65%), #fcc3bc;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #fcc3bc

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.

#fcc3bc 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

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 13.67:1.

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.

#fcc3bc, answered

What color is #fcc3bc?

#fcc3bc is a pale electric red, closest to Pink (ΔE2000 6.7). It sits at 7° on the hue wheel with 91% saturation and 86% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #fcc3bc?

rgb(252, 195, 188) — 252 red, 195 green and 188 blue out of 255, or 98.8% / 76.5% / 73.7% by channel.

What is #fcc3bc in HSL and HSV?

hsl(7, 91%, 86%) and hsv(7, 25%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #fcc3bc a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6336 and perceived brightness is 84%, so black text on it reaches 13.67:1.

Should I use black or white text on #fcc3bc?

Black. It scores 13.67:1 against #fcc3bc, versus 1.54:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #fcc3bc accessible on a white background?

#fcc3bc on white scores 1.54:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #E7230A to reach 4.5:1, or #AC1A08 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #fcc3bc?

#BCF5FC sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #BCFCE3 and #BCD5FC, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #fcc3bc?

For interface work: #FAF5F4 as the surface, #EDC5C0 for borders, #9B534B for secondary text, #06C6AC as an accent and #7A1205 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FCBCD5 and #FCE3BC stays calm, while #BCF5FC is the loudest partner.

What is #fcc3bc in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 23%, 25%, 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 #fcc3bc warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 13 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FCD3BC; nudged cooler, #FDBBCC.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #fcc3bc?

The orange family — its 500 step is #f97316, ΔE2000 26 away. That is a visible difference, so define #fcc3bc as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #fcc3bc in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#fcc3bc] or text-[#fcc3bc], 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 #fcc3bc with 50% opacity?

rgba(252, 195, 188, 0.5), or #fcc3bc80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FEE1DE; over black, #7E625E.

Is #fcc3bc a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFCCCC, ΔE2000 3.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #fcc3bc 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 #fcc3bc?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FEEEEB, #fcc3bc 45%, #7A1205). For more colour, a short hue run to #FBEE9F keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #fcc3bc in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #fcc3bc at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.