HEX atlas value

#FED6CD

#FED6CD is a warm red HEX color nearest Pastel Pink. RGB 254, 214, 205, HSL 11° 96% 90%, luminance 0.7357; view contrast and conversions.

red warm light pastel

#FED6CD Sample readable text

HEX #FED6CD

RGB rgb(254, 214, 205)

HSL hsl(11 96% 90%)

CMYK cmyk(0, 16, 19, 0)

Luminance 0.7357

Contrast Black 15.71:1White 1.34:1

CSS

--color-fed6cd: #FED6CD;
.background-fed6cd { background-color: #FED6CD; }
.text-fed6cd { color: #FED6CD; }

HEX meaning and use

About #FED6CD

#FED6CD is classified as a warm red value with light and pastel visual character. #FED6CD is visually closest to Pastel Pink, a named red color with HEX #FFD1DC.

The RGB channels are 254, 214, and 205, with red carrying the strongest channel weight. In HSL, the hue is 11deg with 96% saturation and 90% lightness, so this page treats it as a high-saturation, light atlas color rather than a generic swatch.

Practical uses for this HEX value include color conversion, WCAG contrast checks, CSS color tokens, and soft UI backgrounds. Its luminance is 0.7357, black text provides the stronger contrast for readable interface or documentation use, and Its nearest named-color distance is 15.84, which helps separate this atlas value from adjacent named color records.

WCAG Accessibility

Black text15.71:1AA Pass

White text1.34:1AA Fail

AA text options: #000000, #1A1A1A, #36454F.

AAA text options: #000000, #1A1A1A, #36454F.

Accessibility-Safe Pairings and Alternatives

Use these pairings when #FED6CD needs readable text, badges, interface states, or nearby accessible alternatives.

Black text#00000015.71:1 · AAA

White text#FFFFFF1.34:1 · Fail

Accessible Alternatives

White#FFFFFF · #000000 text · best 21:1 #FEEECD#FEEECD · #000000 text · best 18.33:1 #CDF5FE#CDF5FE · #000000 text · best 18.09:1 Champagne#F7E7CE · #000000 text · best 17.28:1 Bisque#FFE4C4 · #000000 text · best 17.15:1

Generated Palette

#FED6CD#FED6CD

#CDF5FE#CDF5FE

#FECDDD#FECDDD

#FEEECD#FEEECD

White#FFFFFF

#FC8C73#FC8C73

Color Harmonies

#CDF5FE#CDF5FE

#FECDDD#FECDDD

#FEEECD#FEEECD

#CDFED6#CDFED6

#D6CDFE#D6CDFE

Variants

White#FFFFFF

#FC8C73#FC8C73

#FFD5CC#FFD5CC

#F8DAD3#F8DAD3

White#FFFFFF

#FFF7F5#FFF7F5

Nearest Named Colors

Pastel Pink#FFD1DC

Bisque#FFE4C4

Champagne#F7E7CE

Morganite#F5C6C6

Pastel Peach#FFDAB9

Luminance0.7357

Black text15.71:1AA Pass

White text1.34:1AA Fail

hexCanonical HEX value

rgbRed, green, blue channels

hslHue, saturation, lightness

cmykApproximate print conversion

wcagAA and AAA contrast options

harmoniesMathematical harmony sets

variantsGenerated tone variants

nearestColorsKnowledge graph neighbors

Structured sections

Color systems

{"hex":"#FED6CD","rgb":[254,214,205],"hsl":[11,96,90],"cmyk":[0,16,19,0],"luminance":0.7357,"contrast":{"black":15.71,"white":1.34}}

WCAG

{"AA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"AAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]}

Safe pairings

[{"name":"Black text","hex":"#000000","contrast":15.71,"wcagAA":true,"wcagAAA":true},{"name":"White text","hex":"#FFFFFF","contrast":1.34,"wcagAA":false,"wcagAAA":false}]

Accessible alternatives

[{"name":"White","hex":"#FFFFFF","family":"gray","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":21,"contrastWhite":1,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"#FEEECD","hex":"#FEEECD","family":"orange","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":18.33,"contrastWhite":1.15,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"#CDF5FE","hex":"#CDF5FE","family":"cyan","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":18.09,"contrastWhite":1.16,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"Champagne","hex":"#F7E7CE","family":"orange","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":17.28,"contrastWhite":1.22,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"Bisque","hex":"#FFE4C4","family":"orange","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":17.15,"contrastWhite":1.22,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]}]

AI context

{"semanticGroups":["warm red","light","pastel","light red","pastel red","Pastel Pink adjacent"],"useCases":["color conversion","WCAG contrast checks","CSS color tokens","soft UI backgrounds","light surfaces","high-attention visual states"],"contrastSafeWith":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"relatedEndpoints":["https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/hex/fed6cd.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/hex.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/pastel-pink.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/bisque.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/champagne.json"]}

Harmonies

{"complementary":"#CDF5FE","analogous":["#FECDDD","#FEEECD"],"triadic":["#CDFED6","#D6CDFE"],"tetradic":["#DDFECD","#CDF5FE","#EECDFE"],"splitComplementary":["#CDFEEE","#CDDDFE"],"monochromatic":["#FFFFFF","#FED6CD","#FC8C73"]}

Variants

{"light":"#FFFFFF","dark":"#FC8C73","saturated":"#FFD5CC","desaturated":"#F8DAD3","pastel":"#FFFFFF","neon":"#FFF7F5"}

Nearest named colors

[{"slug":"pastel-pink","name":"Pastel Pink","hex":"#FFD1DC","distance":15.84297951775486},{"slug":"bisque","name":"Bisque","hex":"#FFE4C4","distance":16.673332000533065},{"slug":"champagne","name":"Champagne","hex":"#F7E7CE","distance":18.411952639521967},{"slug":"morganite","name":"Morganite","hex":"#F5C6C6","distance":19.6468827043885},{"slug":"pastel-peach","name":"Pastel Peach","hex":"#FFDAB9","distance":20.42057785666214}]

#FED6CD

CSS

About #FED6CD

WCAG Accessibility

Accessibility-Safe Pairings and Alternatives

Accessible Alternatives

Generated Palette

Color Harmonies

Variants

Nearest Named Colors

Machine-Readable HEX Data (JSON)

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