Hot pink

#e46faa

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, confident and easy to pair. Pinks like this read soft and contemporary. Deep greens and teals opposite it give contrast and warm neutrals keep it soft.

Hot pink color values

Every conversion for #e46faa, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e46faa

RGB228, 111, 170

HSL330, 68%, 66%

HSV330, 51%, 89%

CMYK0%, 51%, 25%, 11%

Lab62.31, 51.97, -10.11

XYZ44.94, 30.77, 41.6

Decimal14970794

Web safe#cc6699

Pantone218 C

Shades of hot pink

#df559b #da3b8b #d0277c #b6226c #9c1d5d #82184d #68133e #4e0f2e #340a1f #1a050f

Tints of hot pink

#e67cb2 #e989b9 #eb96c1 #eea3c8 #f0afd0 #f3bcd8 #f5c9df #f7d6e7 #fae3ef #fcf0f6

Colors that go with hot pink

Complementary#6fe4a9 Analogous#e46fe4 Analogous#e46f6f Triadic#aae46f Triadic#6faae4 Split complementary#6fe46f Split complementary#6fe4e3

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, 51, 25, 11.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e46faa on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 51 25 11

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 51 27 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 read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Hot pink in css

Copy #e46faa straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e46faa; }
.text { color: #e46faa; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e46faa; }

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 #e46faa against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e46faa against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Hot pink on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #e46faa 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 the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn hot pink into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #e46faa 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

Here is how the numbers for #e46faa are worked out. 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.