What color is #FC94AF?

A soft, warm rose pink, light and gentle without being a pastel. It sits between baby pink and hot pink in intensity, with a red rather than purple lean.

What is the difference between rose pink and blush?

Rose pink is lighter and brighter; blush is deeper and duller, closer to a muted red. Both are warm, which is what separates them from mauve and lilac.

What colors go with rose pink?

Deep green and navy give it contrast without competing, and warm neutrals such as cream and sand keep the scheme soft. Cool greys wash it out.

Rose pink color: hex codes, shades and palettes

Palettes built around rose pink. Click any swatch to copy its hex code.

Rose pink is a soft, slightly warm pink, #FC94AF is a widely used value, light enough to feel gentle without tipping into pastel. It sits between the paleness of blush and the intensity of hot pink.

Rose pink hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#FC94AF

HEX: #FC94AF
RGB: rgb(252, 148, 175)
HSL: hsl(344, 95%, 78%)
OKLCH: oklch(78.3% 0.128 3.8)
On white: 2.10:1
On black: 9.99:1

Shades of rose pink

9 steps from one base color, generated in OKLCH so each step is an equal perceived step rather than an equal numeric one. Click a swatch to copy it.

Rose pink color values

#FC94AFrgb(252, 148, 175)

Color spaces of #fc94af
RGB	252	148	175
HSL	344°	95%	78%
HSV	344°	41%	99%
CMYK	0.00	0.41	0.31	0.01
XYZ	58.4748	44.9750	46.1504
Yxy	44.9750	0.3909	0.3006
CIE-Lab	72.8754	42.1685	2.9994
Hunter Lab	67.0634	38.2789	6.1433
OKLCH	78.3%	0.128	3.8°

#FC94AF is 252 red, 148 green and 175 blue. Its red channel carries the most of it. The nearest of the 216 web safe colors is #FF9999.

CIE-Lab, XYZ and Yxy are measured against D65, the white point sRGB itself is defined against. Hunter Lab uses the original illuminant C constants, which is what paint and plastics specifications quote, so the two Lab rows are not directly comparable. CMYK is the plain arithmetic conversion: real ink values depend on the press, the paper and the profile.

Base numbers
Base	Red	Green	Blue
Binary	11111100	10010100	10101111
Octal	374	224	257
Decimal	252	148	175
Hex	FC	94	AF

#fc94af mixed with black

Ten even steps of the classic shade ramp, worked out in RGB, which is how the term has always been defined and how other references list it. The OKLCH scale further down this page answers a different question: it steps by equal perceived amounts, so its values are not the same.

#FC94AF
#E2859D
#C9768C
#B0677A
#975869
#7E4A57
#643B46
#4B2C34
#321D22
#190E11
#000000

#fc94af mixed with white

The tint ramp, by the same rule in the other direction.

#FC94AF
#FC9EB7
#FCA9BF
#FCB4C7
#FDBECF
#FDC9D7
#FDD4DF
#FEDEE7
#FEE9EF
#FEF4F7
#FFFFFF

Channel shares

Red43.8%
Green25.7%
Blue30.4%

Color schemes

Turned in OKLCH rather than HSL, so every member keeps the lightness and chroma of the original instead of one of them arriving washed out.

Complementary

#FC94AF
#35D2C1

Triadic

#FC94AF
#A8C666
#70C0FF

Analogous

#FC94AF
#FF9981
#EA98DA

Monochromatic

#832746
#AA4B67
#D36F8A
#FC94AF
#FFD1DB
#FFF6F8
#FFF6F8

#fc94af on black and on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 9.99:1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 2.10:1

Body text needs 4.5:1 to meet AA and large text needs 3:1, so a ratio tells you which of the two backgrounds this color can be read on, and at what size.

CSS for #fc94af

color: #fc94af;
background-color: #fc94af;
border: 3px solid #fc94af;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px 2px #fc94af;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(252, 148, 175, 0.8);

/* Perceptually even, and what a modern stylesheet wants */
color: oklch(78.3% 0.128 3.8);

The OKLCH form is the same color stated so that lightening or darkening it moves by an amount the eye agrees with. Every current browser understands it.

Named shades and close relatives

Rose pink against its neighbours

Pink covers a lot of ground and the names are used loosely. Rose pink is mid-light and warm, with a trace of red rather than purple. Baby pink is paler and flatter. Blush is deeper and duller. Hot pink is the same family at full saturation and reads as aggressive by comparison.

The useful distinction is warmth. A rose pink leans red, a mauve leans purple, and putting the two side by side looks like a mistake even when both are pleasant on their own.

Where rose pink works

Beauty and skincare, florists, wedding material, and any brand reaching for warmth without sweetness. It also works well as an accent in otherwise neutral interfaces, where a single warm pink against grey reads as considered rather than decorative.

It pairs naturally with deep green, navy and warm neutrals such as cream and sand. Against a cool grey it can look washed out, and against another mid-tone pink it simply blurs.

Contrast and readability

Rose pink on white measures 2.10:1 and on black 9.99:1. WCAG AA asks for 4.5:1 on normal text and 3:1 on large text and UI components, so the higher of those two decides which background it belongs on. In the scale above, 500 is the first to clear 4.5:1 on white, at 5.65:1.

The contrast checker reports every level for a given pair and suggests the nearest passing shade on the same hue. The color picker builds this same scale from any color you paste in.

Rose pink color questions

What color is #FC94AF?: A soft, warm rose pink, light and gentle without being a pastel. It sits between baby pink and hot pink in intensity, with a red rather than purple lean.
What is the difference between rose pink and blush?: Rose pink is lighter and brighter; blush is deeper and duller, closer to a muted red. Both are warm, which is what separates them from mauve and lilac.
What colors go with rose pink?: Deep green and navy give it contrast without competing, and warm neutrals such as cream and sand keep the scheme soft. Cool greys wash it out.

Related colors: rose, pink, hot pink, blush, magenta, fuchsia. See every shade on the colors index.

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