HEX Color #FF49C5 (Hotpink)

About #FF49C5

At its core, #FF49C5 is a light and vivid hue. It is closely associated with the named CSS color Hotpink. To achieve this exact tint on a monitor, you would use an RGB mix of 255, 73, and 197.

While screens use RGB, printing presses rely on Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black). To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 0% cyan and 71% magenta inks. The HSL representation is 319.1° hue, 100.0% saturation, and 64.3% lightness.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) dictate how we should use this color. The calculated luminance score dictates that #000000 typography is the safest choice. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#FF49C5

RGB255, 73, 197

HSL319.1°, 100.0%, 64.3%

CMYK0%, 71%, 23%, 0%

HSV319.1°, 71.4%, 100.0%

LAB61.7, 78.4, -26.1

XYZ53.7, 30.1, 55.8

Decimal16730565

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#FF49C5 #48FF83

Analogous

#DD48FF #FF4869

Triadic

#C4FF48 #48C4FF

Tetradic

#FFDE48 #48FF83 #4869FF

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#FF49C5

#FF5DCB

#FF71D1

#FF85D8

#FF99DE

#FFAEE5

#FFC2EB

#FFD6F2

#FFEAF8

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#FF49C5

#E240AF

#C63899

#AA3083

#8D286D

#712057

#551841

#38102B

#1C0815

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

3.00:1

Text on #FFFFFF

FAIL

7.01:1

Text on #000000

AAA

2.86:1

Text on #F8FAFC

FAIL

5.96:1

Text on #0F172A

AA

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #FF49C5; }

.text-color { color: #FF49C5; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #FF49C5; }

Similar Colors

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