Hot pink

#de74aa

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for hot pink, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Hot pink is a mid pink, grounded and easy to pair. Pinks like this read soft and contemporary. It works with sage and olive for balance, or with cream for a gentle palette.

Hot pink color values

Every conversion for #de74aa, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#de74aa

RGB222, 116, 170

HSL329, 62%, 66%

HSV329, 48%, 87%

CMYK0%, 48%, 23%, 13%

Lab62.44, 47.58, -9.99

XYZ43.63, 30.92, 41.7

Decimal14578858

Web safe#cc6699

Pantone218 C

Shades of hot pink

#d85b9b #d2428c #c72f7c #ae296d #95235d #7c1d4e #63183e #4a122f #320c1f #19060f

Tints of hot pink

#e180b2 #e48db9 #e799c1 #eaa6c8 #edb2d0 #f0bfd8 #f3cbdf #f6d8e7 #f9e4ef #fcf1f6

Colors that go with hot pink

Complementary#74dea8 Analogous#dd74de Analogous#de7475 Triadic#aade74 Triadic#74aade Split complementary#75de74 Split complementary#74dedd

Hot pink in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 48, 23, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #de74aa on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 48 23 13

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 48 25 19

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Hot pink in css

Copy #de74aa straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #de74aa; }
.text { color: #de74aa; }
.border { border: 2px solid #de74aa; }

How hot pink looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Hot pink and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #de74aa against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #de74aa against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Hot pink on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #de74aa sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around hot pink? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn hot pink into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #de74aa and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from hot pink, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #de74aa come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.