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Pictured: Pale pink, the closest color we have a photo of (#FADADD)
rgb(240, 222, 220)
#F0DEDC

Butterfly Kisses #F0DEDC RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Butterfly Kisses (#F0DEDC) is a neutral white. In RGB it is made of 94% red, 87% green and 86% blue (R 240, G 222, B 220). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 6°, 40% saturation and 90% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.759, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 8% magenta, 8% yellow and 6% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a neutral color. It goes well with warm oranges and reds for contrast. For a calm, matching look, use nearby cool tones.

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Butterfly Kisses color codes

#F0DEDC in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #F0DEDC Valid CSS
RGB rgb(240, 222, 220) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(6, 40%, 90%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(6, 8%, 94%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(6 86% 6%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 8%, 8%, 6%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(91.45% 0.0201 25.18) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(91.45% 0.0181 0.0085) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(89.9% 6.13 3.33) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(89.9% 6.98 28.5) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.9292 0.8731 0.8647) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.7497 0.7594 0.7842) Valid CSS
Decimal 15785692 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.7594. Nearest web-safe color: #FFCCCC.

Mix Butterfly Kisses with other colors

See what #F0DEDC makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

Use Butterfly Kisses in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

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CSS variable--butterfly-kisses: #F0DEDC;
Sass variable$butterfly-kisses: #F0DEDC;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-butterfly-kisses: #F0DEDC; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'butterfly-kisses': '#F0DEDC' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.941, green: 0.871, blue: 0.863)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.941, green: 0.871, blue: 0.863, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="butterfly_kisses">#FFF0DEDC</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFF0DEDC)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #F0DEDC (16.19:1, AAA). Here is how #F0DEDC does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.30:1 on white
APCA Lc 15
Fails AATry #837371
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
16.19:1 on black
APCA Lc -89
AAA

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Butterfly Kisses

#F0DEDC next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

#F0DEDC has almost no hue, so it looks much the same with every type of color blindness. Only its lightness counts. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

Butterfly Kisses in a user interface

A sample app screen with #F0DEDC as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #F0DEDC as it is. On the light theme, #F0DEDC is too hard to read as text (1.30:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #837371 there (4.51:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Butterfly Kisses

These schemes turn the hue of #F0DEDC around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette

Square

Four hues 90° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette

Gradients with Butterfly Kisses

Four CSS gradients made from #F0DEDC. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #FCF8F8, #F0DEDC);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F0DEDC, #433D3C);

Edit in the gradient generator

Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #F0DCE4, #F0DEDC, #F0E8DC);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #F0DEDC, #E6E7DD, #DCF0DE);

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Shades, tints and tones of Butterfly Kisses

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Butterfly Kisses sits at step 200. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FBF5F4
  2. 100
    F3EBEA
  3. 200
    F0DEDC
  4. 300
    CBBDBB
  5. 400
    AF9F9D
  6. 500
    928280
  7. 600
    776866
  8. 700
    5F5250
  9. 800
    4B3F3E
  10. 900
    372E2D
  11. 950
    201C1B

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #F0DEDC in three color systems that designers and builders use.

ΔE is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of white or search the color library.