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Color#ca638frgb(202, 99, 143) · red

#ca638f color

Values, variations, harmonies, an accessible palette and ready-to-paste CSS for #ca638f.

Color values

The same color written in every notation you are likely to need. Click any row to copy it.

What HEX means

#ca638f packs three channels into hexadecimal pairs from 00 to FF: ca red, 63 green, 8f blue.

What RGB means

Red 202, green 99, blue 143 — each from 0 to 255. It is the same color as the hex above, just in decimal.

What HSL means

Hue 334° (red), saturation 49%, lightness 59%. HSL is handy when you want the same hue a little lighter or less saturated.

Why OKLCH

OKLCH is a perceptual space — changing its lightness (63.5%) matches how your eye reads brightness far better than HSL, which is why the palette below is generated in it.

Accessibility & contrast

WCAG requires at least 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text at level AA. Use this to decide whether white or black text belongs on this color.

AaThis text is readable
White text3.69:1
AA AAA AA Large
AaThis text is readable
Black text5.69:1
AA AAA AA Large

Closest accessible alternative

Nudged in lightness to reach 4.5:1 while keeping the hue as close as possible.

Aa

For white text

#b95480

4.52:1

UI preview

How this color behaves in a real interface, not just as a square.

Badge

A paragraph with a themed link inside it.

Information

An alert accented with this color.

Progress

Tints & shades

A tint mixes the color toward white; a shade mixes it toward black. Click any swatch to open it.

Color harmonies

Schemes built by rotating the hue around the color wheel — the starting point for a coherent palette.

Complementary

Opposite on the wheel — maximum contrast.

Analogous

Neighbours on the wheel — calm and cohesive.

Triadic

Three hues 120° apart — vivid but balanced.

Split complementary

Softer than a straight complement.

Tetradic

Four hues — enough for a design system.

Palette generator

A Tailwind-style 50–950 ramp anchored on this color at step 500, generated in OKLCH so the steps feel evenly spaced.

:root {
  --primary-50: #ffedf9;
  --primary-100: #ffddef;
  --primary-200: #ffc3dc;
  --primary-300: #f9a3c5;
  --primary-400: #df7ea6;
  --primary-500: #ca638f;
  --primary-600: #a1406c;
  --primary-700: #852d56;
  --primary-800: #6d1f44;
  --primary-900: #5a1737;
  --primary-950: #340b1f;
}

Gradient

A linear blend from this color to its complement, with the CSS ready to paste.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ca638f, #63ca9d);

Nearest named colors

The closest matches from a corpus of about 31,900 named colours, ranked by ΔE (CIEDE2000) — a measure of how different two colours look. ΔE under 1 is nearly indistinguishable; around 10 is clearly different.

CSS code

Every common way to use this color in a stylesheet or a component.

color: #ca638f;
background-color: #ca638f;
:root {
  --color-primary: #ca638f;
}
color: rgb(202 99 143);
color: oklch(63.5% 0.1392 354.89);
<div class="bg-[#ca638f]">…</div>