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#FF9ED3

Wisteria · light warm pink

About #FF9ED3

With the hex code #FF9ED3, this is a light pink with a moderately saturated character. Its RGB recipe is 100% red, 62% green and 83% blue, while a printer would mix 0% cyan, 38% magenta, 17% yellow and 0% black. It reads as a warm colour.

If you had to name it, it is somewhere between Wisteria and Light Pink — a ΔE of 22.1 — followed by Light Pink. For maximum hue contrast, pair it with its complement #9EFFCA, a seafoam shade.

In design, a light colour like this works best for large surfaces, cards and soft highlights. Put black text on top of it — 11.08:1, a WCAG AAA pass.

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Red255
Green158
Blue211

Closest named colours

Wisteria
#C9A0DC · ΔE 22.1
Light Pink
#FFB6C1 · ΔE 23.0
Lilac
#C8A2C8 · ΔE 23.3

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

Text on #FF9ED3

WCAG contrast for white and black text on this colour.

White heading text
Body copy set on wisteria #FF9ED3.
1.89:1Fail
Black heading text
Body copy set on wisteria #FF9ED3.
11.08:1AAA

Colour-blindness preview

How #FF9ED3 appears to people with the three most common types of colour-vision deficiency.

Normal vision
#FF9ED3
Protanopia (no red cones)
#A5B2D5
Deuteranopia (no green cones)
#BEC2D0
Tritanopia (no blue cones)
#FF9DB1

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Frequently asked questions

›What colour is #FF9ED3?

With the hex code #FF9ED3, this is a light pink with a moderately saturated character. Its RGB recipe is 100% red, 62% green and 83% blue, while a printer would mix 0% cyan, 38% magenta, 17% yellow and 0% black. It reads as a warm colour.

›What text colour should I use on #FF9ED3?

Use black text. Black on #FF9ED3 has a contrast ratio of 11.08:1 (AAA).

›What colours go with #FF9ED3?

Its complementary colour is #9EFFCA, and analogous partners are #FA9EFF and #FF9EA3.