Hot pink

#e985c2

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

This is Hot pink, a strong pink at 323 degrees. Light pinks like this suit beauty, baby and lifestyle work. Deep greens and teals opposite it give contrast and warm neutrals keep it soft.

Hot pink color values

Every conversion for #e985c2, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e985c2

RGB233, 133, 194

HSL323, 69%, 72%

HSV323, 43%, 91%

CMYK0%, 43%, 17%, 9%

Lab68.02, 46.09, -15.05

XYZ51.73, 37.99, 55.65

Decimal15304130

Web safe#ff99cc

Pantone237 C

Shades of hot pink

#e469b4 #df4ca6 #da3097 #c42386 #a81e72 #8c195f #6f144c #530f38 #360a25 #1a0512

Tints of hot pink

#eb90c7 #ed9acd #efa5d2 #f1b0d7 #f3badd #f5c5e2 #f6d0e7 #f8dbed #fae5f2 #fcf0f7

Colors that go with hot pink

Complementary#85e9ac Analogous#de85e9 Analogous#e98590 Triadic#c2e985 Triadic#85c2e9 Split complementary#90e985 Split complementary#85e9de

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, 43, 17, 9.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e985c2 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 43 17 9

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 44 20 15

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 #e985c2 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e985c2; }
.text { color: #e985c2; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e985c2; }

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 #e985c2 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e985c2 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 #e985c2 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 #e985c2 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

Every value on this page for #e985c2 is computed, not guessed. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.