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magenta / pink · warm

#fea3c2

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

Token name suggestion: Drift Peony

RGB
254, 163, 194
HSL
340°, 98%, 82%
CMYK
0, 36, 24, 0
Luminance
0.5116

#fea3c2 is a light electric magenta / pink, 340° on the wheel and 28/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (11.23:1). As text it scores 1.87:1 on white — use #E70350 instead. Nearest name is Light Pink, nearest Tailwind family is pink.

hsl(340 98% 82%)rgb(254 163 194)Base step 300AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #fea3c2 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#fea3c2
Hue
340°
magenta / pink
Saturation
98%
electric
Lightness
82%
light
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
78%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5116
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
28/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
11.23:1
Closest name
Light Pink
ΔE2000 6.6
Chroma
37.7
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.814
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
pink
500 · ΔE 18.6
Web-safe
#FF99CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue340° of 360°
Saturation98%
Lightness82%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #fea3c2.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool28% 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
Red41%
Green51%
Blue8%

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

Every format

HEX#fea3c2
HEX (8-digit)#fea3c2ff
RGBrgb(254, 163, 194)
RGBArgba(254, 163, 194, 1)
HSLhsl(340, 98%, 82%)
HSV / HSBhsv(340, 36%, 100%)
HWBhwb(340 64% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 36%, 24%, 0%)
LABlab(76.8 37.7 -1.7)
LCHlch(76.8 37.7 357.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.814 0.114 357.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(63.71, 51.16, 57.55)
Decimal16688066
Display P3color(display-p3 0.996 0.639 0.761)
Web-safe#FF99CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #fea3c2;
background-color: #fea3c2;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #fea3c2;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#fea3c2] bg-[#fea3c2]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #fea3c2;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.996, green: 0.639, blue: 0.761)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.996, green: 0.639, blue: 0.761, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FEA3C2</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFEA3C2)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFEA3C2)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(194, 163, 254)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(254, 163, 194)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(254, 163, 194)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 254, 163, 194)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9961f, 0.6392f, 0.7608f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{254,163,194}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #fea3c2 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #fea3c2 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#7E012C, #EED3DC);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #fea3c2 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: #FDF1F5;
  --brand-100: #FCE3EC;
  --brand-200: #FBC1D5;
  --brand-300: #fea3c2;
  --brand-400: #FD5991;
  --brand-500: #FD216C;
  --brand-600: #F20354;
  --brand-700: #CA0246;
  --brand-800: #A10238;
  --brand-900: #74062C;
  --brand-950: #49041B;
  --brand: #fea3c2;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4F6;
  --brand-border: #EDC0CF;
  --brand-hover: #FE80AB;
  --brand-pressed: #FD5D93;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241419;
    --brand-ink: #EED3DC;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDF1F5',
        100: '#FCE3EC',
        200: '#FBC1D5',
        300: '#fea3c2',
        400: '#FD5991',
        500: '#FD216C',
        600: '#F20354',
        700: '#CA0246',
        800: '#A10238',
        900: '#74062C',
        950: '#49041B',
        DEFAULT: '#fea3c2',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDF1F5,
  '100': #FCE3EC,
  '200': #FBC1D5,
  '300': #fea3c2,
  '400': #FD5991,
  '500': #FD216C,
  '600': #F20354,
  '700': #CA0246,
  '800': #A10238,
  '900': #74062C,
  '950': #49041B,
);
$brand-base: #fea3c2;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FDF1F5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FCE3EC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#FBC1D5", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#fea3c2", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#FD5991", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#FD216C", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#F20354", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#CA0246", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#A10238", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#74062C", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#49041B", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #fea3c2 · 11.23:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.87:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 11.23:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #fea3c2 as text scores 1.87:1 on white and 11.23:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #7E012C at 5.83:1.

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
#E70350 · 4.64:1
AA on white−36% L
#E70350
The quick fox
#B0023D · 7.19:1
AAA on white−47% L
#B0023D
The quick fox
#fea3c2 · 11.23:1
AA on blackalready passes
#fea3c2
The quick fox
#fea3c2 · 11.23:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#fea3c2

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #FD5890 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
#fea3c2 on white: 1.87:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#fea3c2 on black: 11.23:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #fea3c2 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #fea3c2.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.87:1AaAa
Slate 501.79:1AaAa
Slate 1001.71:1AaAa
Slate 2001.52:1AaAa
Slate 3001.26:1AaAa
Slate 4001.37:1AaAa
Slate 5002.55:1AaAa
Slate 6004.05:1AaAa
Slate 7005.54:1AaAa
Slate 8007.82:1AaAa
Slate 9009.55:1AaAa
Black11.23:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #AEB4C3
deuteranopia · #C5C4C0
tritanopia · #FF9EAE

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. #fea3c2 is pinned to step 300; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FDF1F5
#FCE3EC
#FBC1D5
#fea3c2
#FD5991
#FD216C
#F20354
#CA0246
#A10238
#74062C
#49041B
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #FDF1F5Darkest = 950 · #49041BText 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 0.028 357.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.045 357.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.068 357.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.089 357.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.104 357.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.114 357.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.114 357.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.107 357.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.095 357.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.079 357.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.062 357.9);
}

Colors that work with #fea3c2

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#FAF4F6
Tinted page background
Border#EDC0CF
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B66
Captions on the surface
Accent#00CC53
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#7E012C
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FFE6EE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241419
Dark-mode background
Hover#FE80AB
One step down in lightness
Pressed#FD5D93
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F3F4
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FFB7CF
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 #fea3c2

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 #7E012C
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #FD5890

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 lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

Strong gendered associations in some markets — test it with the audience you actually have.

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight18/100
  • 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#A3FEDF
Analogous left#FEA3EF
Analogous right#FEB2A3
Split-complement 1#A3FEB2
Split-complement 2#A3EFFE
Triadic 1#C2FEA3
Triadic 2#A3C2FE
Tetradic#EFFEA3
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°340°

#fea3c2 sits at 340°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red99.6%
Green63.9%
Blue76.1%
R · 0–255
254
0xfe
G · 0–255
163
0xa3
B · 0–255
194
0xc2

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta35.8%
Yellow23.6%
Key (black)0.4%

Total ink coverage is 60%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#fea3c2 text on a black background

contrast 11.23:1

Card sample

#fea3c2 text on a white background

contrast 1.87:1

Card sample

#fea3c2 on grey

1.71:1

#fea3c2 on its own surface

1.72:1

#fea3c2 on its dark surface

9.45:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #fea3c2;
Background color
Panel with #fea3c2 background
background-color: #fea3c2;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #fea3c2;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(254, 163, 194, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(254, 163, 194, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #fea3c2;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #fea3c2, #FEC1A3);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fea3c2, #FED8A3);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #fea3c2;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #fea3c2;
caret-color: #fea3c2;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #fea3c2;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FFE6EE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #fea3c2;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#fea3c2 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #fea3c2 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(254, 163, 194, 0.5)
rgb(254 163 194 / 50%)
#fea3c280
hsl(340 98% 82% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #fea3c2 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#fea3c21a#FFF6F9
20%#fea3c233#FFEDF3
40%#fea3c266#FFDAE7
60%#fea3c299#FEC8DA
80%#fea3c2cc#FEB5CE

Gradients from #fea3c2

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, #FFE0EA, #fea3c2 45%, #7E012C);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #fea3c2, #FEB685);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fea3c2, #A3FEDF);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FFF0F5 0%, #fea3c2 45%, #7E012C 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF4F6, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #FFD6FB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FED0C1 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #7E012C 0%, transparent 65%), #fea3c2;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #fea3c2

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.

#fea3c2 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 11.23:1.

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.

#fea3c2, answered

What color is #fea3c2?

#fea3c2 is a light electric magenta / pink, closest to Light Pink (ΔE2000 6.6). It sits at 340° on the hue wheel with 98% saturation and 82% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #fea3c2?

rgb(254, 163, 194) — 254 red, 163 green and 194 blue out of 255, or 99.6% / 63.9% / 76.1% by channel.

What is #fea3c2 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(340, 98%, 82%) and hsv(340, 36%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #fea3c2 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5116 and perceived brightness is 78%, so black text on it reaches 11.23:1.

Should I use black or white text on #fea3c2?

Black. It scores 11.23:1 against #fea3c2, versus 1.87:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #fea3c2 accessible on a white background?

#fea3c2 on white scores 1.87:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #E70350 to reach 4.5:1, or #B0023D for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #fea3c2?

#A3FEDF sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #A3FEB2 and #A3EFFE, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #fea3c2?

For interface work: #FAF4F6 as the surface, #EDC0CF for borders, #9B4B66 for secondary text, #00CC53 as an accent and #7E012C for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FEA3EF and #FEB2A3 stays calm, while #A3FEDF is the loudest partner.

What is #fea3c2 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 36%, 24%, 0%). 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 #fea3c2 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 28 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FEA6A3; nudged cooler, #FFA2E4.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #fea3c2?

The pink family — its 500 step is #ec4899, ΔE2000 18.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #fea3c2 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #fea3c2 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#fea3c2] or text-[#fea3c2], 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 #fea3c2 with 50% opacity?

rgba(254, 163, 194, 0.5), or #fea3c280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FFD1E1; over black, #7F5261.

Is #fea3c2 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FF99CC, ΔE2000 4.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #fea3c2 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 #fea3c2?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FFE0EA, #fea3c2 45%, #7E012C). For more colour, a short hue run to #FEB685 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #fea3c2 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #fea3c2 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.