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Hot Pink

Hex #FF69B4, rgb(255 105 180). A pink CSS named color.

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About Hot Pink

Hot Pink is a light saturated pink with the hex code #FF69B4. In RGB it is made of 255 red, 105 green and 180 blue; in HSL its hue is 330°, with 100% saturation and 71% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 72.8%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "hotpink" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 2.65:1 and against black 7.93:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Hot Pink mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

Tints (with white)

Shades (with black)

Tones (with gray)

Hot Pink 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Hot Pink

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

Complementary

Analogous

Triadic

Split complementary

Tetradic

Square

Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Hot Pink with white and black. The readable text color on Hot Pink is black.

Hot Pink textSmall text on white

On white2.65:1

  • AA fail
  • AA Large fail
  • AAA fail
  • UI 3:1 fail

APCA Lc 51

Hot Pink textSmall text on black

On black7.93:1

  • AA pass
  • AA Large pass
  • AAA pass
  • UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -51

Black text on Hot Pink (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Hot Pink appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

  • Protanopia#7E8EB6
  • Deuteranopia#A7A9B0
  • Tritanopia#FF6187
  • Protanomaly#AE89B5
  • Deuteranomaly#BE9BB1
  • Tritanomaly#FF66A1
  • Achromatopsia#9F9F9F

Colors similar to Hot Pink

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Hot Pink in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.hot-pink {
  color: hotpink; /* #FF69B4 */
  background-color: rgb(255 105 180);
  border-color: oklch(72.8% 0.197 352);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-hot-pink-500, text-hot-pink-700... */
@theme {
  --color-hot-pink-50: #FFF8FB;
  --color-hot-pink-100: #FFE8F1;
  --color-hot-pink-200: #FFCFE3;
  --color-hot-pink-300: #FFA8CE;
  --color-hot-pink-400: #FF69B4;
  --color-hot-pink-500: #EF399D;
  --color-hot-pink-600: #D31E87;
  --color-hot-pink-700: #AC0E6D;
  --color-hot-pink-800: #881156;
  --color-hot-pink-900: #6E1145;
  --color-hot-pink-950: #2F001A;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#FF69B4] text-[#000000]">…</div>