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magenta / pink · warm

#ff7ecc

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

Token name suggestion: Morning Ruby

RGB
255, 126, 204
HSL
324°, 100%, 75%
CMYK
0, 51, 20, 0
Luminance
0.4054

#ff7ecc is a light electric magenta / pink, 324° on the wheel and 37/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (9.11:1). As text it scores 2.31:1 on white — use #E4008A instead. Nearest name is Hot Pink, nearest Tailwind family is pink.

hsl(324 100% 75%)rgb(255 126 204)Base step 300AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #ff7ecc is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#ff7ecc
Hue
324°
magenta / pink
Saturation
100%
electric
Lightness
75%
light
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
72%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4054
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
37/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
9.11:1
Closest name
Hot Pink
ΔE2000 5.1
Chroma
60.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.763
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
pink
500 · ΔE 12.1
Web-safe
#FF66CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue324° of 360°
Saturation100%
Lightness75%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #ff7ecc.

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
Red52%
Green37%
Blue11%

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

Every format

HEX#ff7ecc
HEX (8-digit)#ff7eccff
RGBrgb(255, 126, 204)
RGBArgba(255, 126, 204, 1)
HSLhsl(324, 100%, 75%)
HSV / HSBhsv(324, 51%, 100%)
HWBhwb(324 49% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 51%, 20%, 0%)
LABlab(69.9 57.9 -17.6)
LCHlch(69.9 60.5 343.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.763 0.179 344.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(59.60, 40.55, 61.80)
Decimal16744140
Display P3color(display-p3 1.000 0.494 0.800)
Web-safe#FF66CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #ff7ecc;
background-color: #ff7ecc;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #ff7ecc;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#ff7ecc] bg-[#ff7ecc]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #ff7ecc;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 1.000, green: 0.494, blue: 0.800)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 1.000, green: 0.494, blue: 0.800, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FF7ECC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFF7ECC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFF7ECC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(204, 126, 255)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(255, 126, 204)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(255, 126, 204)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 255, 126, 204)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(1.0000f, 0.4941f, 0.8000f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{255,126,204}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #ff7ecc 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #ff7ecc 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#80004D, #EED3E3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #ff7ecc 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: #FEF1F9;
  --brand-100: #FCE3F2;
  --brand-200: #FCC0E4;
  --brand-300: #ff7ecc;
  --brand-400: #FF57BD;
  --brand-500: #FF1FA6;
  --brand-600: #F50094;
  --brand-700: #CC007B;
  --brand-800: #A30063;
  --brand-900: #760549;
  --brand-950: #49032E;
  --brand: #ff7ecc;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4F8;
  --brand-border: #EDC0DB;
  --brand-hover: #FF5ABE;
  --brand-pressed: #FF37B0;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #24141E;
    --brand-ink: #EED3E3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FEF1F9',
        100: '#FCE3F2',
        200: '#FCC0E4',
        300: '#ff7ecc',
        400: '#FF57BD',
        500: '#FF1FA6',
        600: '#F50094',
        700: '#CC007B',
        800: '#A30063',
        900: '#760549',
        950: '#49032E',
        DEFAULT: '#ff7ecc',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FEF1F9,
  '100': #FCE3F2,
  '200': #FCC0E4,
  '300': #ff7ecc,
  '400': #FF57BD,
  '500': #FF1FA6,
  '600': #F50094,
  '700': #CC007B,
  '800': #A30063,
  '900': #760549,
  '950': #49032E,
);
$brand-base: #ff7ecc;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FEF1F9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FCE3F2", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#FCC0E4", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#ff7ecc", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#FF57BD", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#FF1FA6", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#F50094", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#CC007B", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#A30063", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#760549", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#49032E", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #ff7ecc · 9.11:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.31:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 9.11:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #ff7ecc as text scores 2.31:1 on white and 9.11:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #80004D at 4.50:1.

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
#E4008A · 4.50:1
AA on white−30% L
#E4008A
The quick fox
#AC0068 · 7.11:1
AAA on white−41% L
#AC0068
The quick fox
#ff7ecc · 9.11:1
AA on blackalready passes
#ff7ecc
The quick fox
#ff7ecc · 9.11:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#ff7ecc

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #FF4BB8 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
#ff7ecc on white: 2.31:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#ff7ecc on black: 9.11:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #ff7ecc as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #ff7ecc.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.31:1AaAa
Slate 502.20:1AaAa
Slate 1002.10:1AaAa
Slate 2001.87:1AaAa
Slate 3001.55:1AaAa
Slate 4001.11:1AaAa
Slate 5002.06:1AaAa
Slate 6003.29:1AaAa
Slate 7004.49:1AaAa
Slate 8006.34:1AaAa
Slate 9007.74:1AaAa
Black9.11:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #899DCF
deuteranopia · #ABB3C9
tritanopia · #FF7D9C

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. #ff7ecc 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.

#FEF1F9
#FCE3F2
#FCC0E4
#ff7ecc
#FF57BD
#FF1FA6
#F50094
#CC007B
#A30063
#760549
#49032E
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #FEF1F9Darkest = 950 · #49032EText 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 0.045 344.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.072 344.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.107 344.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.140 344.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.165 344.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.179 344.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.179 344.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.168 344.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.150 344.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.125 344.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.098 344.9);
}

Colors that work with #ff7ecc

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#00CC1E
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#80004D
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FFE5F5
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#24141E
Dark-mode background
Hover#FF5ABE
One step down in lightness
Pressed#FF37B0
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F3F5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FF92D4
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
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #ff7ecc

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 #80004D
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #FF4BB8

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
  • Weight25/100
  • 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#7EFFB1
Analogous left#F17EFF
Analogous right#FF7E8C
Split-complement 1#8CFF7E
Split-complement 2#7EFFF1
Triadic 1#CCFF7E
Triadic 2#7ECCFF
Tetradic#FFF17E
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°324°

#ff7ecc sits at 324°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red100.0%
Green49.4%
Blue80.0%
R · 0–255
255
0xff
G · 0–255
126
0x7e
B · 0–255
204
0xcc

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta50.6%
Yellow20.0%
Key (black)0.0%

Total ink coverage is 71%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#ff7ecc text on a black background

contrast 9.11:1

Card sample

#ff7ecc text on a white background

contrast 2.31:1

Card sample

#ff7ecc on grey

2.10:1

#ff7ecc on its own surface

2.13:1

#ff7ecc on its dark surface

7.63:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #ff7ecc;
Background color
Panel with #ff7ecc background
background-color: #ff7ecc;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #ff7ecc;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(255, 126, 204, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(255, 126, 204, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #ff7ecc;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ff7ecc, #FF867E);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ff7ecc, #FFA67E);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #ff7ecc;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #ff7ecc;
caret-color: #ff7ecc;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #ff7ecc;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FFE5F5;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #ff7ecc;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#ff7ecc 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #ff7ecc 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(255, 126, 204, 0.5)
rgb(255 126 204 / 50%)
#ff7ecc80
hsl(324 100% 75% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #ff7ecc 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#ff7ecc1a#FFF2FA
20%#ff7ecc33#FFE5F5
40%#ff7ecc66#FFCBEB
60%#ff7ecc99#FFB2E0
80%#ff7ecccc#FF98D6

Gradients from #ff7ecc

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, #FFBBE4, #ff7ecc 45%, #80004D);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #ff7ecc, #FF775F);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ff7ecc, #7EFFB1);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FFDAF0 0%, #ff7ecc 45%, #80004D 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%, #F0B1FF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FF9D9F 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #80004D 0%, transparent 65%), #ff7ecc;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #ff7ecc

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.

#ff7ecc 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 9.11:1.

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.

#ff7ecc, answered

What color is #ff7ecc?

#ff7ecc is a light electric magenta / pink, closest to Hot Pink (ΔE2000 5.1). It sits at 324° on the hue wheel with 100% saturation and 75% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #ff7ecc?

rgb(255, 126, 204) — 255 red, 126 green and 204 blue out of 255, or 100% / 49.4% / 80% by channel.

What is #ff7ecc in HSL and HSV?

hsl(324, 100%, 75%) and hsv(324, 51%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #ff7ecc a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4054 and perceived brightness is 72%, so black text on it reaches 9.11:1.

Should I use black or white text on #ff7ecc?

Black. It scores 9.11:1 against #ff7ecc, versus 2.31:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #ff7ecc accessible on a white background?

#ff7ecc on white scores 2.31:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #E4008A to reach 4.5:1, or #AC0068 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #ff7ecc?

#7EFFB1 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #8CFF7E and #7EFFF1, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #ff7ecc?

For interface work: #FAF4F8 as the surface, #EDC0DB for borders, #9B4B7B for secondary text, #00CC1E as an accent and #80004D for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F17EFF and #FF7E8C stays calm, while #7EFFB1 is the loudest partner.

What is #ff7ecc in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 51%, 20%, 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 #ff7ecc 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 #FF7E9D; nudged cooler, #FF7EFB.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #ff7ecc?

The pink family — its 500 step is #ec4899, ΔE2000 12.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #ff7ecc as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #ff7ecc in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#ff7ecc] or text-[#ff7ecc], 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 #ff7ecc with 50% opacity?

rgba(255, 126, 204, 0.5), or #ff7ecc80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FFBFE6; over black, #803F66.

Is #ff7ecc a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FF66CC, ΔE2000 4.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #ff7ecc 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 #ff7ecc?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FFBBE4, #ff7ecc 45%, #80004D). For more colour, a short hue run to #FF775F keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #ff7ecc in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #ff7ecc at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.