Hot pink

#e38bba

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

Hot pink is a light pink, open and easy to pair. Light pinks like this suit beauty, baby and lifestyle work. It works with sage and olive for balance, or with cream for a gentle palette.

Hot pink color values

Every conversion for #e38bba, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e38bba

RGB227, 139, 186

HSL328, 61%, 72%

HSV328, 39%, 89%

CMYK0%, 39%, 18%, 11%

Lab68.27, 39.78, -10.26

XYZ49.77, 38.34, 51.23

Decimal14912442

Web safe#cc99cc

Pantone673 C

Shades of hot pink

#dc70aa #d6559a #cf3a8a #bb2d79 #a02767 #852056 #6a1a44 #4f1333 #340c21 #190610

Tints of hot pink

#e595c0 #e89fc6 #eaa9cc #edb4d2 #efbed8 #f2c8de #f4d2e4 #f7dcea #f9e6f0 #fcf1f6

Colors that go with hot pink

Complementary#8be3b4 Analogous#e08be3 Analogous#e38b8e Triadic#bae38b Triadic#8bbae3 Split complementary#8ee38b Split complementary#8be3e0

Hot pink in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 0, 39, 18, 11.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e38bba on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 39 18 11

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 40 21 17

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 #e38bba straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e38bba; }
.text { color: #e38bba; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e38bba; }

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 #e38bba against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e38bba 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 #e38bba 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 #e38bba 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 #e38bba come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.