A pale pink, black text passes AA
What color is mistyrose?
mistyrose is a pale pink: #ffe4e1 in hex, rgb(255 228 225). Black text on it reaches 17.44:1, passing WCAG AAA. Recolor (recolor.page) shows it on a real page below.
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| Format | Value |
|---|---|
| Keyword | mistyrose |
| Hex | #ffe4e1 |
| RGB | rgb(255 228 225) |
| HSL | hsl(6 100% 94%) |
| OKLCH | oklch(94.0% 0.030 25.3) |
| Nearest Tailwind color | red-100 #ffe2e2, 0.006 away in OKLab |
| White text | 1.20:1: AA fails, AAA fails, large text fails |
| Black text | 17.44:1: AA passes, AAA passes, large text passes |
About mistyrose
A pale pink is the plain description of mistyrose: OKLCH lightness 94.0%, chroma 0.030, hue 25.3 degrees.
HSL and OKLCH agree on how light it is, 94% and 94.0%. The closest CSS named color is antiquewhite (#faebd7), 0.027 away in OKLab: near, and still a visible step from it side by side.
Black text on mistyrose measures 17.44:1, past the 7:1 of WCAG AAA, while white text manages only 1.20:1. It sits at one end of the hue-sorted table of named colors, next to salmon.
In Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 the nearest default color is red-100 (#ffe2e2), 0.006 away in OKLab; for the exact color, an arbitrary value such as bg-[#ffe4e1] works.
Tints and shades
- #fffafa
- #fff6f5
- #fff1f0
- #ffedeb
- #ffe9e6
- #ffe4e1
- #c8b3b0
- #948482
- #635856
- #362f2f
- #0f0c0b
From light to dark: 5 toward white and 5 toward black, mixed in OKLCH a sixth of the way at a time with the hue kept. A step that would repeat its neighbor is left out.
A palette around it
- #ffe4e1
- #626400
- #23d3b3
- #112d43
- #a0719d
Recolor's generator, with mistyrose locked as swatch 1 and the seed taken from its hex, drew a free palette, hues spread around the wheel: #626400, #23d3b3, #112d43, #a0719d. Open it in Recolor.
Using mistyrose
As a text color, mistyrose on a black page gives the same 17.44:1.
.notice {
background-color: mistyrose; /* #ffe4e1 */
color: black; /* 17.44:1 */
}Common questions
Does white text pass WCAG AA on mistyrose?
No. White text measures 1.20:1 on mistyrose, under AA's 4.5:1; black text measures 17.44:1 and passes.
Can mistyrose be written in OKLCH?
Yes: oklch(94.0% 0.030 25.3), computed from #ffe4e1. A named color is an sRGB color, so its OKLCH value converts back to the same hex.
Is there a named color close to mistyrose?
Yes: antiquewhite (#faebd7) is the nearest, 0.027 away in OKLab, then linen at 0.029.