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rgb(255, 127, 127)
#FF7F7F

Light Red #FF7F7F RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Light Red (#FF7F7F) is a vivid, light red. In RGB it is made of 100% red, 50% green and 50% blue (R 255, G 127, B 127). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 0°, 100% saturation and 75% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.380, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 50% magenta, 50% yellow and 0% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a warm color. It goes well with cool blues and greens for contrast. For a matching look, use nearby warm tones.

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Light Red color codes

#FF7F7F in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #FF7F7F Valid CSS
RGB rgb(255, 127, 127) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(0, 100%, 75%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(0, 50%, 100%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(0 50% 0%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 50%, 50%, 0%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(74.28% 0.1563 21.56) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(74.28% 0.1454 0.0574) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(68.57% 49.67 24.07) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(68.57% 55.2 25.86) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.9358 0.5255 0.5124) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.5266 0.3797 0.2464) Valid CSS
Decimal 16744319 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.3797. Nearest web-safe color: #FF6666.

Mix Light Red with other colors

See what #FF7F7F 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.

PaintLight Red and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightLight Red and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintLight Red and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalLight Red blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Light Red in your code

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

WhereCodeCopy
CSS variable--light-red: #FF7F7F;
Sass variable$light-red: #FF7F7F;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-light-red: #FF7F7F; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'light-red': '#FF7F7F' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 1, green: 0.498, blue: 0.498)
UIKitUIColor(red: 1, green: 0.498, blue: 0.498, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="light_red">#FFFF7F7F</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFFF7F7F)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #FF7F7F (8.59:1, AAA). Here is how #FF7F7F does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
2.44:1 on white
APCA Lc 48
Fails AATry #C84E51
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
8.59:1 on black
APCA Lc -54
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 Light Red

#FF7F7F 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

#FF7F7F stays easy to tell apart from its complement and triadic colors for the common types of color blindness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Light Red

Red mixed with white

#FF7F7F is pure red mixed half and half with white. The red channel stays full while green and blue go to the middle. You can make it yourself in the color mixer. The Wikipedia section on light red gives #FF8080, which is the same mix rounded up by one step.

That section names X11 and HTML as sources, but neither has this color. The named colors in CSS have lightcoral and lightpink, but there is no lightred keyword.

Other colors called light red

Wikipedia's alphabetical list gives a much paler light red, #FFCCCB. The Crayola list on Wikipedia says the crayon melon has also been called Light Red. Close cousins on this site are light coral and pastel red.

Light Red in a user interface

A sample app screen with #FF7F7F as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #FF7F7F as it is. On the light theme, #FF7F7F is too hard to read as text (2.44:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #C84E51 there (4.50:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Light Red

These schemes turn the hue of #FF7F7F 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
this#FF7F7F#7FFFFF

Analogous

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

Open palette
#FF7FBFthis#FF7F7F#FFBF7F

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#FF7F7F#7FFF7F#7F7FFF

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#FF7F7F#7FFFBF#7FBFFF

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#FF7F7F#FFFF7F#7FFFFF#7F7FFF

Square

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

Open palette
this#FF7F7F#BFFF7F#7FFFFF#BF7FFF

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#660000#B90000#FF0D0D#FF6060#FFB3B3

Gradients with Light Red

Four CSS gradients made from #FF7F7F. 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, #FFE7E6, #FF7F7F);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FF7F7F, #481F1F);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FF7FBF, #FF7F7F, #FFBF7F);

Edit in the gradient generator

Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FF7F7F, #D5C580, #7FFF7F);

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Shades, tints and tones of Light Red

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)

Light Red sits at step 400. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF4F3
  2. 100
    FFE6E5
  3. 200
    FFCCCA
  4. 300
    FFA5A2
  5. 400
    FF7F7F
  6. 500
    D4585B
  7. 600
    B43D42
  8. 700
    942930
  9. 800
    771C23
  10. 900
    581419
  11. 950
    331010

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #FF7F7F in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 3014 Antique pink#D47479, close (ΔE 8.4)Tailwind CSSred-400 #F87171, very close (ΔE 3.4)CSS color namessalmon #FA8072, nearly the same (ΔE 2.0)

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 red or search the color library.