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Baby pink

#F4C2C2

Baby pink is commonly given as the hex color #F4C2C2, with RGB values 244, 194, 194. It is not a CSS keyword, so the value is a widely used convention rather than a standard.

PinkCommon convention

Quick colors, then fill the screen

Or a gradient

Or let it move

#F4C2C2rgb(244, 194, 194) · hsl(0, 69%, 86%)

Baby pink color codes

Every value for #F4C2C2, ready to paste. Click any code to copy it.

Channel values for #F4C2C2 in each number base
ChannelDecimalShareHexOctalBinary
Red24495.69%F436411110100
Green19476.08%C230211000010
Blue19476.08%C230211000010

The nearest web-safe color is #FFCCCC, from the 216-color palette browsers agreed on before displays could be trusted with more.

About baby pink

A pale, slightly muted pink. Its association with infancy is barely a century old, and was the opposite way round before that.

Shades, tints and tones

Every step is generated from #F4C2C2. Click a swatch to copy its hex.

Shades of baby pink

A shade is the base color with black mixed in. Shades read as deeper and more dramatic, and they are what you reach for when a color needs to recede or carry weight.

Tints of baby pink

A tint is the base color with white mixed in. Tints turn pastel as they lighten, which makes them useful for backgrounds and for anything that has to sit behind text.

Tones of baby pink

A tone is the base color with grey mixed in. Tones lose the shout without losing the hue, and they are usually what separates a considered palette from a loud one.

The baby pink scale

The same color as the 50 to 950 ladder every CSS framework uses, with #F4C2C2 at 500. Click a step to copy its hex, or take the whole scale as variables for a design system.

Color schemes built on baby pink

Harmonies are positions on the color wheel rather than matters of taste, which is why they keep working across very different designs.

Complementary

Two colors from opposite sides of the wheel. They make each other look more vivid, which is why the pairing is used for anything that needs to stand out.

Analogous

Three neighbours on the wheel. Nothing competes, so the result reads calm and settled, closer to how colour behaves in nature.

Split complementary

The base plus the two colors either side of its complement. It keeps most of the contrast while being much easier to balance.

Triadic

Three colors spaced evenly around the wheel. Strong and lively, and usually best with one dominant color and two accents.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs, forming a rectangle on the wheel. The richest scheme available, and the hardest to keep from shouting.

Monochromatic

One hue at different lightness levels. Effortlessly cohesive, and the safest way to build a palette around a brand color.

Colors close to #F4C2C2

Near neighbours, for when this color is almost right. Each one shifts hue, saturation or lightness by a small step.

Baby pink color palettes

Five-color palettes built around #F4C2C2, each following a different scheme. Click any swatch to copy it, or open the generator to build your own.

Analogous

Complementary

Triadic

Monochromatic

Open the palette generator to lock the colors you like and regenerate the rest.

Contrast and readability

Whether baby pink works as text, and what to put on top of it when it is the background. Ratios follow WCAG 2.1, where 4.5 is the bar for body text and 3 for large text.

Baby pink text on white background

1.57:1 · Poor

Large text at 24 pixels

Body text at 16 pixels. A flat field of color removes every variable, which is what makes it useful for judging a display.

  • Body AA
  • Body AAA
  • Large AA
  • Large AAA

Baby pink text on black background

13.34:1 · Excellent

Large text at 24 pixels

Body text at 16 pixels. A flat field of color removes every variable, which is what makes it useful for judging a display.

  • Body AA
  • Body AAA
  • Large AA
  • Large AAA

Used the other way round, #F4C2C2 as a background takes #000000 text. That is the higher-contrast of the two, and it is what the tool picks automatically for any chrome sitting on your color.

Baby pink reads better on a black background of the two. Contrast is a property of the pair, not of one color, so a color that fails here can still be perfectly usable against a different partner.

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The pink family

Baby pink sits in the pink family. Every named pink in the library, with baby pink first.

SwatchNameHexRGBHSL
Baby pink is the color on this page#F4C2C2244, 194, 1940, 69%, 86%
Pink is a CSS keyword#FFC0CB255, 192, 203350, 100%, 88%
Magenta is a CSS keyword#FF00FF255, 0, 255300, 100%, 50%
Hot pink is a CSS keyword#FF69B4255, 105, 180330, 100%, 71%
Rose#FF007F255, 0, 127330, 100%, 50%
Dusty rose#D8A7B1216, 167, 177348, 39%, 75%
Pale violet red is a CSS keyword#DB7093219, 112, 147340, 60%, 65%