Crayola crayon color
Crayola Pink Sherbet #F78FA7
Crayola Pink Sherbet is shown here as #F78FA7, the commonly published value for the crayon. It is a light soft pink in the pink family. In OKLCH it sits at lightness 0.766, chroma 0.128 and hue 5.7°. The nearest CSS named color is palevioletred (#DB7093), ΔE2000 8.9 away.
- Relative luminance
- 0.4221
- OKLCH L · C · h
- 0.766 · 0.128 · 5.7
- Best text
- Black 9.44:1
- Hue family
- Pink
#F78FA7 color codes
- HEX
#F78FA7- RGB
rgb(247, 143, 167)- HSL
hsl(346, 87%, 76%)- OKLCH
oklch(0.766 0.128 5.7)- OKLab
oklab(0.766 0.127 0.013)- CIELAB (D65)
L* 71.02, a* 41.98, b* 4.68- XYZ (D65)
X 55.16, Y 42.21, Z 41.79- CMYK (naive)
cmyk(0%, 42%, 32%, 3%)
CIELAB and XYZ use the D65 white point; CSS lab() uses D50, so paste the OKLCH or HEX value into stylesheets. CMYK here is a plain formula with no press profile.
Crayola is a trademark of Crayola LLC, which this site is not affiliated with. The value is the commonly published sRGB rendering of the crayon, not a Crayola specification.
Legibility
Contrast: is #F78FA7 accessible?
Black text on it reaches 9.44:1, passing AAA. White text fails at 2.22:1.
WCAG 2 gives the same ratio whichever color is the text; APCA does not, so its Lc changes sign and size with polarity.
Open the Contrast System-
Black text on it
9.44:1
- AA passes
- AA large passes
- AAA passes
- APCA Lc +60
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White text on it
2.22:1
- AA fails
- AA large fails
- AAA fails
- APCA Lc −48
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As text on black
9.44:1
- AA passes
- AA large passes
- AAA passes
- APCA Lc −58
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As text on white
2.22:1
- AA fails
- AA large fails
- AAA fails
- APCA Lc +43
Nearest versions that pass 4.5:1
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For text on white
#B8566F 4.56:1
Darkening its OKLCH lightness from 0.77 to 0.58 reaches 4.56:1 on white, keeping the hue.
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For text on black
#F78FA7 9.44:1
It already reaches 9.44:1 on black, so no change is needed.
Checking another pair? Use the Contrast Checker.
Studio
Adjust #F78FA7 live
Move lightness, chroma and hue in OKLCH, or drag on the map. The map is every lightness and chroma at the current hue: sRGB inside the solid area, Display P3 out to the dashed line.
Scale
Shades and tints of #F78FA7
Eleven OKLCH lightness steps at this hue, each with its contrast against white and black. #F78FA7 sits at step 300.
Under each step, white and black text on it; a bold figure passes 4.5:1.
Gamut
How vivid #F78FA7 can get
At its lightness and hue, sRGB reaches OKLCH chroma 0.145; #F78FA7 uses 88% of it. Display P3, which many recent phones and laptops show, reaches 0.188 there: 29% more.
- sRGB
- Display P3
- Rec. 2020
- Dominant wavelength
- OKLCH chroma
- 0.128
- sRGB edge
- 0.145
- Display P3 edge
- 0.188
- Rec. 2020 edge
- 0.274
- Dominant wavelength
- Complementary 495 nm
- Excitation purity
- 25%
- Chromaticity
- x 0.3963, y 0.3033
- This color#F78FA7
- Most vivid in sRGB#FF89A5
- Most vivid in Display P3oklch(0.766 0.188 5.7)
On a screen without Display P3 the last tile shows the sRGB edge instead.
.accent {
color: #f78fa7;
}
@media (color-gamut: p3) {
.accent { color: color(display-p3 1 0.5052 0.6339); }
}Mixing
Mixing #F78FA7
Each row is the same mix worked out in a different space, with the halfway color at its end. sRGB, which older CSS gradients use, can sag gray or dark in the middle; OKLab keeps the lightness steps even; OKLCH holds chroma and hue as it goes.
White #FFFFFF
- sRGB50%#FBC7D3
- OKLab50%#FFC8D2
- OKLCH50%#FFC8D2
Black #000000
- sRGB50%#7C4854
- OKLab50%#60343E
- OKLCH50%#60343E
Its complement #28CDBF
- sRGB50%#90AEB3
- OKLab50%#B3B3B3
- OKLCH50%#9EACFF
/* A gradient and a mix, worked out in OKLCH */
background: linear-gradient(in oklch, #f78fa7, white);
color: color-mix(in oklch, #f78fa7 50%, white);In use
#F78FA7 in an interface
A button, a link, a heading, a focused field, an icon and a chart line in this color, on a light page and a dark one. Each check is a WCAG 2 contrast minimum: 1.4.3 for text, 1.4.11 for the rest.
Light page
- Button labelText, 4.5:19.44:1 Passes
- Link and body-size textText, 4.5:12.22:1 Fails
- Large headingLarge text, 3:12.22:1 Fails
- Icons, borders and focus ringsNon-text, 3:12.22:1 Fails
For text on this page, the nearest shade that passes is #B8566F 4.56:1
Dark page
- Button labelText, 4.5:19.44:1 Passes
- Link and body-size textText, 4.5:18.42:1 Passes
- Large headingLarge text, 3:18.42:1 Passes
- Icons, borders and focus ringsNon-text, 3:18.42:1 Passes
Color vision
How #F78FA7 looks with color blindness
Deuteranopia changes it most, ΔE2000 28.9; tritanopia changes it least, 4.0.
Simulated with Machado et al. (2009) at full severity, in linear light.
Simulate a whole page What each type sees-
Protanopia
No working red (long-wavelength) cones
#A0A2A8 ΔE2000 24.7
Distinct
Reads as gray
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Deuteranopia
No working green (medium-wavelength) cones
#BAB5A5 ΔE2000 28.9
Distinct
Reads as light grayish amber
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Tritanopia
No working blue (short-wavelength) cones
#FF8698 ΔE2000 4.0
Close match
Reads as light soft pink
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Achromatopsia
No cone color vision; lightness only
#AEAEAE ΔE2000 24.2
Distinct
Reads as light gray
Pairing check
Checked against its complement, #28CDBF. Their lightness contrast is only 1.12:1, so where hue collapses, add a label, icon or pattern.
| Vision | The pair | ΔE2000 | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal vision | #F78FA7 · #28CDBF | 60.0 | Stays distinct |
| Protanopia | #A0A2A8 · #C2C1BF | 9.6 | Harder to tell apart |
| Deuteranopia | #BAB5A5 · #ACB1C1 | 15.6 | Stays distinct |
| Tritanopia | #FF8698 · #00D2C8 | 62.0 | Stays distinct |
| Achromatopsia | #AEAEAE · #B8B8B8 | 2.8 | Easily confused |
Harmony
Color harmonies for #F78FA7
Its complement is #28CDBF, a light soft cyan, on the cool side of the wheel.
Hue rotations in OKLCH, mapped into sRGB by trimming chroma so hue and lightness stay put.
Open the Harmony Studio- Base#F78FA7
- Complement#28CDBF
Complementary
Open in Harmony Studio- −30°#E693D2
- Base#F78FA7
- +30°#F99479
Analogous
Open in Harmony Studio- Base#F78FA7
- +120°#9FC263
- +240°#69BBFF
Triadic
Open in Harmony Studio- Base#F78FA7
- +150°#67CB90
- +210°#2BC7E6
Split-complementary
Open in Harmony StudioCode
Design tokens
Ready-to-paste tokens in six formats. Rename them to fit your system.
:root {
--color-crayola-pink-sherbet: #f78fa7;
}// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
theme: {
extend: {
colors: {
'crayola-pink-sherbet': '#f78fa7',
},
},
},
};/* app.css — Tailwind CSS v4 */
@import "tailwindcss";
@theme {
--color-crayola-pink-sherbet: oklch(0.766 0.128 5.7);
}{
"color": {
"crayola-pink-sherbet": {
"$type": "color",
"$value": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [0.9686, 0.5608, 0.6549],
"hex": "#f78fa7"
},
"$description": "Crayola Pink Sherbet"
}
}
}import SwiftUI
enum Palette {
static let crayolaPinkSherbet = Color(.sRGB, red: 0.969, green: 0.561, blue: 0.655, opacity: 1)
}import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color
object Palette {
val CrayolaPinkSherbet = Color(0xFFF78FA7)
}Matches
The nearest match in each system
The closest CSS name, Tailwind shade, RAL Classic paint and Crayola crayon by ΔE2000; under 2 is hard to tell apart side by side. RAL and Crayola values approximate physical colors.
Tools
Open #F78FA7 in the tools
Each opens over this page. More colors live in the Color Library, and every color page is listed on the hub.
- Color InspectorEvery format, its names, contrast and color vision in one panel.
- Contrast SystemBlack and white text on this color, with fixes in both directions.
- Harmony StudioPalettes built from this color, walked to a contrast target if you ask.
- Color Space ConverterThe same color in 34 notations, with its gamut headroom.
- Color Name FinderThe nearest of 1,055 color names by ΔE2000.