CSS named colour

Light Coral

#f08080

A CSS named colour: lightcoral is valid anywhere a colour is expected.

RGB: rgb(240 128 128)
HSL: 0°, 79%, 72%
OKLCh: 72.5% 0.138 21.0

Light Coral in every format

Web & CSSThe everyday formats for stylesheets and design tools.

Hex	`#f08080`
RGB	`rgb(240 128 128)`
RGB legacy	`rgb(240, 128, 128)`
RGB percent	`rgb(94.12% 50.2% 50.2%)`
HSL	`hsl(0 78.9% 72.2%)`
HSL legacy	`hsl(0, 78.9%, 72.2%)`
HSV / HSB	`hsv(0, 46.7%, 94.1%)`
HWB	`hwb(0 50.2% 5.9%)`
Nearest name	`lightcoral`
CMYK	`cmyk(0%, 46.7%, 46.7%, 5.9%)`Naive conversion. Real print work needs an ICC profile.

Perceptual & wide gamutModern CSS colour spaces for uniform scales and P3 displays.

OKLCh	`oklch(72.464% 0.13774 21.029)`Modern CSS colour space for even palettes — better than HSL when building scales.
OKLab	`oklab(72.464% 0.12857 0.04943)`
CIE LCh	`lch(66.65% 48.387 25.08)`
CIE Lab	`lab(66.65% 43.825 20.511)`
Display P3	`color(display-p3 0.8834 0.5247 0.5138)`
Rec. 2020	`color(rec2020 0.7918 0.5015 0.4643)`
srgb-linear	`color(srgb-linear 0.8714 0.2159 0.2159)`Light-linear sRGB — the same numbers a shader wants for maths.
CIE XYZ (D65)	`color(xyz-d65 0.4755 0.3552 0.2478)`

ShadersGLSL, HLSL and WGSL vectors in both encoded and linear form.

GLSL vec3 — sRGB	`vec3(0.941, 0.502, 0.502)`Encoded values. Use when writing straight to the framebuffer.
GLSL vec3 — linear	`vec3(0.871, 0.216, 0.216)`Light-linear values. Use for lighting, blending and mixing.
GLSL vec4 — sRGB	`vec4(0.941, 0.502, 0.502, 1.0)`
GLSL vec4 — linear	`vec4(0.871, 0.216, 0.216, 1.0)`
GLSL ivec3	`ivec3(240, 128, 128)`
HLSL float3 — sRGB	`float3(0.941, 0.502, 0.502)`
HLSL float3 — linear	`float3(0.871, 0.216, 0.216)`
HLSL float4 — sRGB	`float4(0.941, 0.502, 0.502, 1.0)`
HLSL half4 — sRGB	`half4(0.941, 0.502, 0.502, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3f — sRGB	`vec3f(0.941, 0.502, 0.502)`
WGSL vec4f — sRGB	`vec4f(0.941, 0.502, 0.502, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3<f32> — linear	`vec3<f32>(0.871, 0.216, 0.216)`

Engines & appsConstructors for Unity, Unreal, Godot, Flutter, SwiftUI and Android.

Unity Color	`new Color(0.941f, 0.502f, 0.502f, 1.0f)`Color for everyday scripting (0–1). Color32 when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unity Color32	`new Color32(240, 128, 128, 255)`
Unreal FLinearColor	`FLinearColor(0.8714f, 0.2159f, 0.2159f, 1.0f)`FLinearColor for materials and lighting. FColor when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unreal FColor	`FColor(240, 128, 128, 255)`Whole numbers from 0 to 255 — use when an API asks for FColor, not FLinearColor.
Godot Color	`Color(0.941, 0.502, 0.502, 1)`
Flutter Color	`Color(0xFFF08080)`Packed ARGB, so alpha comes first.
Android Color	`Color.rgb(240, 128, 128)`
SwiftUI Color	`Color(red: 0.941, green: 0.502, blue: 0.502)`
UIKit UIColor	`UIColor(red: 0.941, green: 0.502, blue: 0.502, alpha: 1)`

Raw valuesPacked integers and plain arrays.

0x hex	`0xF08080`
0x hex (ARGB)	`0xFFF08080`
Array 0–1	`[0.941, 0.502, 0.502]`
Array 0–255	`[240, 128, 128]`
Decimal integer	`15761536`

Contrast and accessibility

WCAG 2 ratios are what audits and legislation reference. APCA is shown alongside because WCAG 2 is known to misjudge mid-tone backgrounds, and it is the basis of the WCAG 3 draft.

Pairing	WCAG 2 ratio	Level	APCA	Suitable for
Light Coral on white	2.59:1	Fail	Lc 50	Large headings only
Light Coral on black	8.10:1	AAA	Lc 52	Large headings only

Light Coral text on a white background

Light Coral text on a black background

White text on Light Coral

Black text on Light Coral

Tonal scale

Hue held fixed while lightness walks OKLCh, ready to use as a design system ramp.

50#ffefee
100#ffe1df
200#ffc9c6
300#ffa5a4
400#f18585
500#d26566
600#b24c4f
700#95373b
800#7b262b
900#65181e
950#41020a

Tints and shades

Mixed perceptually toward white and black, so the steps feel evenly spaced.

Tint 1#f59695
Tint 2#f9aba9
Tint 3#fcc0be
Tint 4#fed5d4
Tint 5#ffeae9
Shade 1#bc6363
Shade 2#8b4848
Shade 3#5d2e2e
Shade 4#321616
Shade 5#0d0303

Colours that work with Light Coral

Complementary, triadic and analogous partners, rotated in OKLCh so they keep the same apparent brightness.

#00bfc9
#73bb67
#74a5fc
#e680b1
#e98a4f

Closest CSS names

lightcoralexact match
salmonΔEok 0.025
darksalmonΔEok 0.055
coralΔEok 0.060
palevioletredΔEok 0.068
tomatoΔEok 0.072