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#fed5df

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

Token name suggestion: Mist Cardinal

RGB
254, 213, 223
HSL
345°, 95%, 92%
CMYK
0, 16, 12, 0
Luminance
0.7399

#fed5df is a pale electric red, 345° on the wheel and 25/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.80:1). As text it scores 1.33:1 on white — use #E8063D instead. Nearest name is Pink, nearest Tailwind family is pink.

hsl(345 95% 92%)rgb(254 213 223)Base step 100AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #fed5df is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#fed5df
Hue
345°
red
Saturation
95%
electric
Lightness
92%
pale
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
89%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7399
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
25/100 cool
Color family
Red
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
15.80:1
Closest name
Pink
ΔE2000 6.3
Chroma
15.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.910
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
pink
500 · ΔE 30.3
Web-safe
#FFCCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue345° of 360°
Saturation95%
Lightness92%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #fed5df.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool25% 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
Red28%
Green64%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#fed5df
HEX (8-digit)#fed5dfff
RGBrgb(254, 213, 223)
RGBArgba(254, 213, 223, 1)
HSLhsl(345, 95%, 92%)
HSV / HSBhsv(345, 16%, 100%)
HWBhwb(345 84% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 16%, 12%, 0%)
LABlab(88.9 15.9 0.4)
LCHlch(88.9 15.9 1.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.910 0.048 1.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(77.99, 73.99, 79.97)
Decimal16700895
Display P3color(display-p3 0.996 0.835 0.875)
Web-safe#FFCCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #fed5df;
background-color: #fed5df;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #fed5df;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#fed5df] bg-[#fed5df]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #fed5df;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.996, green: 0.835, blue: 0.875)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.996, green: 0.835, blue: 0.875, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FED5DF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFED5DF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFED5DF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(223, 213, 254)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(254, 213, 223)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(254, 213, 223)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 254, 213, 223)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9961f, 0.8353f, 0.8745f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{254,213,223}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #fed5df 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #fed5df 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#7D0321, #EED3D9);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #fed5df 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: #FDF1F4;
  --brand-100: #fed5df;
  --brand-200: #FAC2CF;
  --brand-300: #FC91AB;
  --brand-400: #FB5B82;
  --brand-500: #FA2458;
  --brand-600: #EF063F;
  --brand-700: #C70534;
  --brand-800: #9F042A;
  --brand-900: #730822;
  --brand-950: #480515;
  --brand: #fed5df;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4F6;
  --brand-border: #EDC0CB;
  --brand-hover: #FDB2C5;
  --brand-pressed: #FC8FAA;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241418;
    --brand-ink: #EED3D9;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDF1F4',
        100: '#fed5df',
        200: '#FAC2CF',
        300: '#FC91AB',
        400: '#FB5B82',
        500: '#FA2458',
        600: '#EF063F',
        700: '#C70534',
        800: '#9F042A',
        900: '#730822',
        950: '#480515',
        DEFAULT: '#fed5df',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDF1F4,
  '100': #fed5df,
  '200': #FAC2CF,
  '300': #FC91AB,
  '400': #FB5B82,
  '500': #FA2458,
  '600': #EF063F,
  '700': #C70534,
  '800': #9F042A,
  '900': #730822,
  '950': #480515,
);
$brand-base: #fed5df;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FDF1F4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#fed5df", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#FAC2CF", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#FC91AB", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#FB5B82", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#FA2458", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#EF063F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#C70534", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#9F042A", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#730822", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#480515", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #fed5df · 15.80:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.33:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 15.80:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #fed5df as text scores 1.33:1 on white and 15.80:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #7D0321 at 8.28:1.

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
#E8063D · 4.64:1
AA on white−45% L
#E8063D
The quick fox
#B1042E · 7.18:1
AAA on white−56% L
#B1042E
The quick fox
#fed5df · 15.80:1
AA on blackalready passes
#fed5df
The quick fox
#fed5df · 15.80:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#fed5df

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #FB5980 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
#fed5df on white: 1.33:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#fed5df on black: 15.80:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #fed5df as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #fed5df.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.33:1AaAa
Slate 501.27:1AaAa
Slate 1001.21:1AaAa
Slate 2001.08:1AaAa
Slate 3001.12:1AaAa
Slate 4001.93:1AaAa
Slate 5003.58:1AaAa
Slate 6005.70:1AaAa
Slate 7007.79:1AaAa
Slate 80011.00:1AaAa
Slate 90013.43:1AaAa
Black15.80:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #DADBDF
deuteranopia · #E3E2DE
tritanopia · #FFD3D8

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. #fed5df 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.

#FDF1F4
#fed5df
#FAC2CF
#FC91AB
#FB5B82
#FA2458
#EF063F
#C70534
#9F042A
#730822
#480515
Base = 100Lightest = 50 · #FDF1F4Darkest = 950 · #480515Text 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 0.012 1.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.019 1.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.028 1.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.037 1.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.044 1.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.048 1.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.048 1.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.045 1.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.040 1.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.033 1.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.026 1.7);
}

Colors that work with #fed5df

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#EDC0CB
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B5E
Captions on the surface
Accent#00CC68
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#7D0321
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FEE6EC
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241418
Dark-mode background
Hover#FDB2C5
One step down in lightness
Pressed#FC8FAA
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F3F4
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FFD6E0
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 #fed5df

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 #7D0321
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #FB5980

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
  • Weight8/100
  • 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#D5FEF4
Analogous left#FED5F4
Analogous right#FEE0D5
Split-complement 1#D5FEE0
Split-complement 2#D5F4FE
Triadic 1#DFFED5
Triadic 2#D5DFFE
Tetradic#F4FED5
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°345°

#fed5df sits at 345°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red99.6%
Green83.5%
Blue87.5%
R · 0–255
254
0xfe
G · 0–255
213
0xd5
B · 0–255
223
0xdf

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta16.1%
Yellow12.2%
Key (black)0.4%

Total ink coverage is 29%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#fed5df text on a black background

contrast 15.80:1

Card sample

#fed5df text on a white background

contrast 1.33:1

Card sample

#fed5df on grey

1.21:1

#fed5df on its own surface

1.22:1

#fed5df on its dark surface

13.29:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #fed5df;
Background color
Panel with #fed5df background
background-color: #fed5df;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #fed5df;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(254, 213, 223, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(254, 213, 223, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #fed5df;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #fed5df, #FEE6D5);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fed5df, #FEF1D5);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #fed5df;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #fed5df;
caret-color: #fed5df;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #fed5df;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FEE6EC;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #fed5df;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#fed5df 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #fed5df 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, 213, 223, 0.5)
rgb(254 213 223 / 50%)
#fed5df80
hsl(345 95% 92% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #fed5df 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#fed5df1a#FFFBFC
20%#fed5df33#FFF7F9
40%#fed5df66#FFEEF2
60%#fed5df99#FEE6EC
80%#fed5dfcc#FEDDE5

Gradients from #fed5df

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, #FFEBF0, #fed5df 45%, #7D0321);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #fed5df, #FDDBB7);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fed5df, #D5FEF4);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FFF0F4 0%, #fed5df 45%, #7D0321 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%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FFF7F3 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #7D0321 0%, transparent 65%), #fed5df;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #fed5df

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.

#fed5df 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 15.80:1.

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.

#fed5df, answered

What color is #fed5df?

#fed5df is a pale electric red, closest to Pink (ΔE2000 6.3). It sits at 345° on the hue wheel with 95% saturation and 92% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #fed5df?

rgb(254, 213, 223) — 254 red, 213 green and 223 blue out of 255, or 99.6% / 83.5% / 87.5% by channel.

What is #fed5df in HSL and HSV?

hsl(345, 95%, 92%) and hsv(345, 16%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #fed5df a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7399 and perceived brightness is 89%, so black text on it reaches 15.80:1.

Should I use black or white text on #fed5df?

Black. It scores 15.80:1 against #fed5df, versus 1.33:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #fed5df accessible on a white background?

#fed5df on white scores 1.33:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #E8063D to reach 4.5:1, or #B1042E for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #fed5df?

#D5FEF4 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #D5FEE0 and #D5F4FE, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #fed5df?

For interface work: #FAF4F6 as the surface, #EDC0CB for borders, #9B4B5E for secondary text, #00CC68 as an accent and #7D0321 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FED5F4 and #FEE0D5 stays calm, while #D5FEF4 is the loudest partner.

What is #fed5df in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 16%, 12%, 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 #fed5df warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 25 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FEDAD5; nudged cooler, #FED5EE.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #fed5df?

The pink family — its 500 step is #ec4899, ΔE2000 30.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #fed5df as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #fed5df in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#fed5df] or text-[#fed5df], 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 #fed5df with 50% opacity?

rgba(254, 213, 223, 0.5), or #fed5df80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FFEAEF; over black, #7F6B70.

Is #fed5df a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFCCCC, ΔE2000 4.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #fed5df 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 #fed5df?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FFEBF0, #fed5df 45%, #7D0321). For more colour, a short hue run to #FDDBB7 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #fed5df in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #fed5df at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.