#9983A0
A medium, muted magenta closely aligning with Lightslategray.
About #9983A0
Visually, #9983A0 is defined as a muted magenta. Designers often compare it to the standard color Lightslategray. To achieve this exact tint on a monitor, you would use an RGB mix of 153, 131, and 160.
When sending designs containing this color to a printer, the CMYK values come into play. To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 4% cyan and 18% magenta inks. With a hue angle of 285.5 degrees, it sits comfortably in the magenta spectrum.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) dictate how we should use this color. Because it is a medium color, it is generally recommended to use #000000 text. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.