Misty Rose Color Codes

Misty Rose is a very light, vivid red with the hex code #FFE4E1, RGB values of 255, 228, 225 and an HSL value of hsl(6, 100%, 94%).

HEX	#FFE4E1
RGB	255, 228, 225
HSL	hsl(6, 100%, 94%)
HSV	6°, 12%, 100%
CMYK	0%, 11%, 12%, 0%
LAB	92.66, 8.75, 4.84
CIELCHuv	92.66, 17.12, 19.44°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 705 C ΔE 3.3 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: mistyrose ΔE 0.0

Source CSS Color Module Level 4 keyword 'MistyRose'

Misty Rose Color Hex Code

The Misty Rose color hex code is #FFE4E1. Those six digits are three pairs, FF for red, E4 for green and E1 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#FFE4E1

Misty Rose Color RGB Code

The Misty Rose RGB code is rgb(255, 228, 225). Red carries the most light at 255 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(255, 228, 225)

Misty Rose Color HSV Code

The Misty Rose HSV code is 6°, 12%, 100%. Read it as a hue of 6 degrees, 12% saturation and 100% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

6°, 12%, 100%

Misty Rose Color CIELChuv Code

The Misty Rose CIELCHuv code is 92.66, 17.12, 19.44°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 93 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 17 is how far it sits from grey.

92.66, 17.12, 19.44°

Tonal scale

What are Misty Rose 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 Misty Rose Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #FFE4E1. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Directly opposite sits #E1FCFF, a very light, vivid teal. No other pairing separates two hues further, so this is the one to reach for when a single element has to win attention. Both are saturated, so give the complement much less area than the base or the two will fight.

Analogous

#FFE1ED and #FFF3E1 sit 30 degrees either side. All three share most of their hue, so the set reads as one family instead of three separate decisions. Good for backgrounds and for state variations that should not announce themselves.

Triadic

#E1FFE4 and #E4E1FF 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: #E1FFF3 and #E1EDFF. 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 #E1FCFF, and #EDFFE1 with #F3E1FF. 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

1.20:1

1.20

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

17.44:1

17.44

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 1.20:1 against white, Misty Rose 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 17.44:1. 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 Misty Rose against another color →

Color vision

How Misty Rose 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

#F4F4E2

Misty Rose shifts noticeably here. ΔE 12.8

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

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#F5F7E2

Misty Rose shifts noticeably here. ΔE 14.5

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

#FEE2E2

Misty Rose holds up almost unchanged here. ΔE 1.7

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

#EAEAEA

Misty Rose shifts slightly here. ΔE 10.0

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, Misty Rose reads as #F5F7E2. That is a shift of ΔE 14.5, 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 14.5. 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 Misty Rose in code

:root {
  --misty-rose: #FFE4E1;
}

.example {
  color: var(--misty-rose);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'misty-rose': '#FFE4E1',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let mistyRose = Color(
    red: 1.000,
    green: 0.894,
    blue: 0.882
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="misty_rose">#FFE4E1</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const mistyRose = Color(0xFFFFE4E1);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Misty Rose Color?

Misty Rose reads as warmth and confidence. It is light enough to sit behind text rather than compete with it, and at 100% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 93 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Misty Rose Color?

In CSS you can write MistyRose 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 705 C at #F9DDD6. The name Misty Rose comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Misty Rose Color Made?

On a screen Misty Rose is made by additive light: 255 red, 228 green and 225 blue out of 255, with red leading and 225 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 11%, 12%, 0%. Starting from the pure hue at 6 degrees, Misty Rose is a tint, so it is that hue with white added.