Carnation Pink #FF7FA7

About this color

#FF7FA7 is a medium-light, vivid pink. In OKLCH its lightness is 75%, its chroma 0.160 and its hue 2°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Carnation Pink. Black text reads best on it, at 8.84:1.

Colors that go with Carnation Pink

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

Color palettes with Carnation Pink

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

• Glitch and Grid
• Blackcurrant Crumble
• Amber Walk
• Chrome Drive
• Synthwave and Boombox
• Laser Grid
• Boombox Sunset
• Velvet Dusk

Similar named colors

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

• Pinky #FC86AA ΔE 0.014
• Rosa #FE86A4 ΔE 0.017
• Rose Pink #F7879A ΔE 0.031
• Carnation #FD798F ΔE 0.032
• Blush Pink #FE828C ΔE 0.040
• Bubblegum #FF6CB5 ΔE 0.049
• Bubble Gum Pink #FF69AF ΔE 0.050
• Pig Pink #E78EA5 ΔE 0.050

More about Carnation Pink

• Shades of pink
• What pink means

How to make Carnation 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 red

Recipe result: #F5819C, a difference of ΔE 0.024 from Carnation Pink. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make pink? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Carnation 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 Carnation 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

   #FEF2F5

   oklch(97.1% 0.013 0.3)

2. Step 100

   100

   #FCE2E8

   oklch(93.6% 0.03 2)

3. Step 200

   200

   #FACBD6

   oklch(88.6% 0.055 2.6)

4. Step 300

   300

   #F7A5BC

   oklch(80.8% 0.101 1.3)

5. Step 400

   400 (this color)

   #FF7FA7

   oklch(75.3% 0.16 1.9)

6. Step 500

   500

   #E54180

   oklch(63% 0.205 1.8)

7. Step 600

   600

   #D00669

   oklch(55.5% 0.222 2)

8. Step 700

   700

   #B10058

   oklch(49.1% 0.198 2)

9. Step 800

   800

   #920248

   oklch(42.7% 0.171 1.8)

10. Step 900

    900

    #75143C

    oklch(37.6% 0.134 1.8)

11. Step 950

    950

    #450F23

    oklch(27% 0.084 2.1)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Carnation 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.