Candy Pink #FF63E9

About this color

#FF63E9 is a medium-light, vivid purple. In OKLCH its lightness is 74%, its chroma 0.238 and its hue 334°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Candy Pink. Black text reads best on it, at 8.21:1.

Colors that go with Candy Pink

Matches found by rotating Candy Pink around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Candy Pink

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Candy Pink, closest first.

No curated palette has a color within ΔE 0.06 of Candy Pink yet.

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Candy Pink, with their ΔE distance.

• Light Magenta #FA5FF7 ΔE 0.026
• Violet Pink #FB5FFC ΔE 0.032
• Purply Pink #F075E6 ΔE 0.039
• Violet #EE82EE ΔE 0.060
• Orchid #DA70D6 ΔE 0.072
• Hot Pink #FF69B4 ΔE 0.082
• Bubblegum #FF6CB5 ΔE 0.083
• Bubblegum Pink #FE83CC ΔE 0.084

More about Candy Pink

• Shades of pink
• What pink means

How to make Candy Pink

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 3 parts pink
• 1 part purple

Recipe result: #D788BF, a difference of ΔE 0.121 from Candy Pink. Candy Pink is more vivid than these paints can mix, so start from a ready-made pink paint and adjust it.

What colors make pink? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Candy Pink in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Candy Pink

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 400.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FEF1FB

   oklch(97.1% 0.019 333.5)

2. Step 100

   100

   #FDE0F6

   oklch(93.7% 0.043 334.3)

3. Step 200

   200

   #FCC5F0

   oklch(88.5% 0.083 334.1)

4. Step 300

   300

   #FA9AE9

   oklch(80.9% 0.15 333.6)

5. Step 400

   400 (this color)

   #FF63E9

   oklch(74.3% 0.238 333.7)

6. Step 500

   500

   #E300CE

   oklch(63.1% 0.282 333.6)

7. Step 600

   600

   #C000AE

   oklch(55.6% 0.249 333.6)

8. Step 700

   700

   #A20093

   oklch(49.1% 0.22 333.5)

9. Step 800

   800

   #860079

   oklch(42.7% 0.191 333.6)

10. Step 900

    900

    #710066

    oklch(37.8% 0.169 333.6)

11. Step 950

    950

    #45003E

    oklch(26.9% 0.121 333.4)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Candy Pink with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.