Light Pink Color Codes

Light Pink is a light, vivid red with the hex code #FFB6C1, RGB values of 255, 182, 193 and an HSL value of hsl(351, 100%, 86%).

HEX	#FFB6C1
RGB	255, 182, 193
HSL	hsl(351, 100%, 86%)
HSV	351°, 29%, 100%
CMYK	0%, 29%, 24%, 0%
LAB	81.05, 27.96, 5.04
CIELCHuv	81.05, 45.80, 2.66°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 1767 C ΔE 3.6 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: lightpink ΔE 0.0

Source CSS Color Module Level 4 keyword 'LightPink'

Light Pink Color Hex Code

The Light Pink color hex code is #FFB6C1. Those six digits are three pairs, FF for red, B6 for green and C1 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#FFB6C1

Light Pink Color RGB Code

The Light Pink RGB code is rgb(255, 182, 193). Red carries the most light at 255 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(255, 182, 193)

Light Pink Color HSV Code

The Light Pink HSV code is 351°, 29%, 100%. Read it as a hue of 351 degrees, 29% saturation and 100% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

351°, 29%, 100%

Light Pink Color CIELChuv Code

The Light Pink CIELCHuv code is 81.05, 45.80, 2.66°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 81 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 46 is how far it sits from grey.

81.05, 45.80, 2.66°

Tonal scale

What are Light Pink Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

Open in the shades & tints generator →

Palettes

What are Light Pink Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #FFB6C1. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Half a turn away is #B6FFF4, a very light, vivid teal. This is the widest separation the wheel offers, and the reason complementary pairs are the default for anything that must stand out. Both are saturated, so give the complement much less area than the base or the two will fight.

Analogous

Either side sit #FFB6E6 and #FFD0B6, 30 degrees out. Low tension by construction: useful when you need several related tones that still feel like one choice.

Triadic

#C1FFB6 and #B6C1FF complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #B6FFD0 and #B6E6FF. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #B6FFF4, and #E6FFB6 with #D0B6FF. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat the darkest of the four as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

1.65:1

1.65

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Fails	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Fails	Fails
UI component needs 3:1	Fails	n/a

Black background

12.71:1

12.71

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Passes
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

At 1.65:1 against white, Light Pink is a fill color rather than a text color. Use it for surfaces, borders and large display type, and set the copy in ink. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 12.71:1. It is a highly saturated color, so it will dominate anything it sits beside. Give it space rather than surrounding it with other strong colors.

Check Light Pink against another color →

Color vision

How Light Pink looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men

actual

#E3E3BE

Light Pink changes substantially here. ΔE 37.4

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#E7ECBE

Light Pink changes substantially here. ΔE 42.2

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000

actual

#FCBCBC

Light Pink shifts slightly here. ΔE 6.4

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000

actual

#C9C9C9

Light Pink changes substantially here. ΔE 28.4

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

To a deuteranope, the most common form, Light Pink reads as #E7ECBE. That is a shift of ΔE 42.2, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. It sits in the red end of the spectrum, which is exactly where red-green deficiency does its damage. Never pair it with a green of similar lightness to signal a difference in meaning: to a large minority the two become one color. The widest shift is under deuteranopia, at ΔE 42.2. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

Simulate a whole palette →

Snippets

Using Light Pink in code

:root {
  --light-pink: #FFB6C1;
}

.example {
  color: var(--light-pink);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'light-pink': '#FFB6C1',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let lightPink = Color(
    red: 1.000,
    green: 0.714,
    blue: 0.757
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="light_pink">#FFB6C1</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const lightPink = Color(0xFFFFB6C1);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Light Pink Color?

Light Pink reads as play and attention. It is saturated enough to dominate anything it sits beside, and at 100% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 81 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Light Pink Color?

In CSS you can write LightPink instead of the hex and get the same color: the two are 0.0 apart, which no eye resolves. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 1767 C at #F9B2B7. The name Light Pink comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Light Pink Color Made?

On a screen Light Pink is made by additive light: 255 red, 182 green and 193 blue out of 255, with red leading and 182 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 29%, 24%, 0%. Starting from the pure hue at 351 degrees, Light Pink is a tint, so it is that hue with white added.