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Muted Pale Red
#D9CBC9

Muted Pale Red (#D9CBC9) with RGB(217, 203, 201) and HSL(7, 17%, 82%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

RedMistywarm

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Interactive

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Values

Production-ready color values

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HEX

#D9CBC9

RGB

rgb(217, 203, 201)

HSL

hsl(7, 17%, 82%)

HSV

hsv(7, 7%, 85%)

CMYK

cmyk(0%, 6%, 7%, 15%)

Decimal

14273481

Contrast

Accessibility checks

On white

1.57:1

On black

13.34:1

Shades

Tonal scale

#181211 #2D2120 #4B3735 #684E4A #86645F #A07D79 #B59A97 #C6B1AE #D9CBC9 #ECE5E4

90080070060050040030020010050

Accessibility

Contrast Audit

On White

FAIL

Text

1.57:1

On Black

WCAG AA PASS

Text

13.34:1

Vision

Simulator

protanopia

deuteranopia

tritanopia

Harmonies

Palette combinations from this base color

Open any harmony as a shareable palette route and keep refining from there.

Complementary

Open palette

#D9CBC9 #C9D7D9

Triadic

Open palette

#D9CBC9 #C9D9CB #CBC9D9

Analogous

Open palette

#D9C9CF #D9C9CB #D9CBC9 #D9CFC9 #D9D3C9

Split complementary

Open palette

#D9CBC9 #C9D9D3 #C9CFD9

Tetradic

Open palette

#D9CBC9 #CFD9C9 #C9D7D9 #D3C9D9

Monochromatic

Open palette

#3C2C2A #684E4A #956F6A #B59A97 #D5C5C3

Analysis

Design expert profile

Detailed psychological and professional strategy for this specific tone.

Muted Pale Red (#D9CBC9) with RGB(217, 203, 201) and HSL(7, 17%, 82%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

redmistywarmhex-d9cbc9h-7s-17l-82

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Developer Handoff

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CSS

/* Muted Pale Red */
color: #D9CBC9;
background-color: #D9CBC9;
border-color: #D9CBC9;
box-shadow: 0 4px 24px #d9cbc940;

Tailwind CSS

bg-[#D9CBC9] text-[#D9CBC9] border-[#D9CBC9] ring-[#D9CBC9]

SwiftUI

Color(red: 0.851, green: 0.796, blue: 0.788)

Flutter / Dart

Color(0xFFD9CBC9)

Android XML

<color name="muted_pale_red">#D9CBC9</color>

React Native

{ color: '#D9CBC9' }

Social Media

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About

About Muted Pale Red

This section gives the same kind of richer color context you’d expect from a dedicated color reference page.

Meaning

Muted Pale Red sits in the red family with a misty tone, so it opens softer surface systems. It reads as energetic, social, and forward-moving.

Applications

Muted Pale Red (#D9CBC9) with RGB(217, 203, 201) and HSL(7, 17%, 82%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems. It performs better as foreground color on dark interfaces and dense contrast surfaces.

Family

Red

Tone

Misty

Temperature

warm

Keywords

red, misty, warm, hex-d9cbc9, h-7, s-17

Conversion

Color conversions

Use these values in CSS, product docs, design tokens, and print-oriented workflows.

HEX

#D9CBC9

RGB

rgb(217, 203, 201)

HSL

hsl(7, 17%, 82%)

HSV

hsv(7, 7%, 85%)

CMYK

cmyk(0%, 6%, 7%, 15%)

Variations

Shades and tonal variations

Build softer surfaces, deeper states, and a cleaner tonal system from the same base hue.

#181211 #2D2120 #4B3735 #684E4A #86645F #A07D79 #B59A97 #C6B1AE #D9CBC9 #ECE5E4

900

#181211

800

#2D2120

700

#4B3735

600

#684E4A

500

#86645F

400

#A07D79

Color harmonies

Harmony-based palette routes

Move from a single color into full palette ideas based on common harmony systems.

Complementary

Open palette

#D9CBC9 #C9D7D9

Triadic

Open palette

#D9CBC9 #C9D9CB #CBC9D9

Analogous

Open palette

#D9C9CF #D9C9CB #D9CBC9 #D9CFC9 #D9D3C9

Split complementary

Open palette

#D9CBC9 #C9D9D3 #C9CFD9

Tetradic

Open palette

#D9CBC9 #CFD9C9 #C9D7D9 #D3C9D9

Monochromatic

Open palette

#3C2C2A #684E4A #956F6A #B59A97 #D5C5C3

Blindness simulator

Color blindness preview

These simulations help you judge whether the color keeps enough identity across common color-vision variations.

Protanopia

#D3D3C9

Red-sensitive cones are reduced, so warm reds and greens can collapse toward similar mid-tones.

Deuteranopia

#D4D5CA

Green-sensitive cones are reduced, which often compresses green and red distinctions.

Tritanopia

#D8CACA

Blue-sensitive cones are reduced, which shifts blues and yellows toward flatter blends.

Contrast checker

Accessibility contrast snapshots

Use these quick checks to understand where the color is more reliable for text, icons, and UI foregrounds.

On white

1.57:1

Fails normal and large text guidance.

On black

13.34:1

AAA passes for normal text.

Similar colors

Nearby color references

Use nearby colors when you want alternatives with a similar overall feel but a different hue or intensity.

Color libraries

Library-ready mappings

These mappings help you slot the color into CSS names, Tailwind-like scales, and semantic design tokens faster.

CSS named match

Muted Pale Red

Closest standard CSS name to #D9CBC9 for developer-friendly reference and docs.

Design token

--color-red-misty

A token-friendly alias you can use in design systems, Tailwind maps, or CSS variables.

Tailwind-friendly scale

red-500

A naming pattern that fits Tailwind-style scale systems and keeps #D9CBC9 as the core value.

HSL token

7 17% 82%

Useful when your component library or theme layer stores semantic colors in HSL channels.

Color palettes

Palette ideas related to this color

These palette routes are pulled from the curated library based on RGB similarity, so you can branch into more complete systems quickly.

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Muted Pale Red#D9CBC9

UI Sandbox

Production-ready color values

Accessibility checks

Tonal scale

Contrast Audit

Simulator

Palette combinations from this base color

Design expert profile

Language

Copy for any framework

Share this color

Muted Pale Red

Nearby named colors

Closest real-world color

About Muted Pale Red

Color conversions

Shades and tonal variations

Harmony-based palette routes

Color blindness preview

Accessibility contrast snapshots

Nearby color references

Library-ready mappings

Palette ideas related to this color

Muted Pale Red
#D9CBC9