ColorXprez

#EDCED5

Baby Pink · very light warm pink

About #EDCED5

#EDCED5 is a muted, very light shade in the pink family. On screen it is built from 93% red, 81% green and 84% blue; for print, its CMYK mix is 0% cyan, 13% magenta, 10% yellow and 7% black. Its overall feel is warm.

Of the common colour names it is similar to Baby Pink (ΔE 9.0); Thistle comes next. Its complementary colour, directly opposite on the colour wheel, is #CEEDE6 — a pale mint tone that gives the strongest contrast in hue.

Designers tend to use very light tones like #EDCED5 for backgrounds, page sections and subtle cards. Put black text on top of it — 14.39:1, a WCAG AAA pass.

Colour codes

HEX
RGB
HSL
HSV / HSB
CMYK
CIELAB
Decimal
CSS
Red237
Green206
Blue213

Closest named colours

Baby Pink
#F4C2C2 · ΔE 9.0
Thistle
#D8BFD8 · ΔE 11.2
Light Gray
#D3D3D3 · ΔE 12.0

ΔE measures visible difference: under 2 is barely noticeable, over 10 is clearly different.

Text on #EDCED5

WCAG contrast for white and black text on this colour.

White heading text
Body copy set on baby pink #EDCED5.
1.46:1Fail
Black heading text
Body copy set on baby pink #EDCED5.
14.39:1AAA

Colour-blindness preview

How #EDCED5 appears to people with the three most common types of colour-vision deficiency.

Normal vision
#EDCED5
Protanopia (no red cones)
#D2D3D5
Deuteranopia (no green cones)
#D9D8D4
Tritanopia (no blue cones)
#F3CCD0

Shades, tints & matching colours

Tints and shades

Complementary

Analogous

Triadic

Split complementary

Tetradic

Similar colours

Frequently asked questions

›What colour is #EDCED5?

#EDCED5 is a muted, very light shade in the pink family. On screen it is built from 93% red, 81% green and 84% blue; for print, its CMYK mix is 0% cyan, 13% magenta, 10% yellow and 7% black. Its overall feel is warm.

›What text colour should I use on #EDCED5?

Use black text. Black on #EDCED5 has a contrast ratio of 14.39:1 (AAA).

›What colours go with #EDCED5?

Its complementary colour is #CEEDE6, and analogous partners are #EDCEE4 and #EDD7CE.