Dark Pink Color Codes

Dark Pink is a mid-tone, saturated pink with the hex code #CB416B, RGB values of 203, 65, 107 and an HSL value of hsl(342, 57%, 53%).

HEX	#CB416B
RGB	203, 65, 107
HSL	hsl(342, 57%, 53%)
HSV	342°, 68%, 80%
CMYK	0%, 68%, 47%, 20%
LAB	48.94, 57.39, 6.96
CIELCHuv	48.94, 92.79, 358.66°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 205 C ΔE 8.2 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: palevioletred ΔE 17.9

Community source color-name-list, community color-name index

Dark Pink Color Hex Code

The Dark Pink color hex code is #CB416B. Those six digits are three pairs, CB for red, 41 for green and 6B for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#CB416B

Dark Pink Color RGB Code

The Dark Pink RGB code is rgb(203, 65, 107). Red carries the most light at 203 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(203, 65, 107)

Dark Pink Color HSV Code

The Dark Pink HSV code is 342°, 68%, 80%. Read it as a hue of 342 degrees, 68% saturation and 80% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

342°, 68%, 80%

Dark Pink Color CIELChuv Code

The Dark Pink CIELCHuv code is 48.94, 92.79, 358.66°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 49 means mid-toned to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 93 is how far it sits from grey.

48.94, 92.79, 358.66°

Tonal scale

What are Dark Pink Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

Open in the shades & tints generator →

Palettes

What are Dark Pink Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #CB416B. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Half a turn away is #41CBA1, a light, saturated spring green. This is the widest separation the wheel offers, and the reason complementary pairs are the default for anything that must stand out. Neither is especially saturated, so this pairing stays calm enough for large areas of both.

Analogous

Either side sit #CB41B0 and #CB5C41, 30 degrees out. Low tension by construction: useful when you need several related tones that still feel like one choice.

Triadic

#6BCB41 and #416BCB complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #41CB5C and #41B0CB. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #41CBA1, and #B0CB41 with #5C41CB. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

4.66:1

4.66

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Black background

4.51:1

4.51

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Dark Pink clears WCAG AA against white at 4.66:1, so it is safe for body copy as well as headings. Text placed on it should be white, which gives 4.66:1.

Check Dark Pink against another color →

Color vision

How Dark Pink looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men

actual

#A2A163

Dark Pink changes substantially here. ΔE 73.1

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#A8B061

Dark Pink changes substantially here. ΔE 81.8

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000

actual

#C75C5A

Dark Pink shifts noticeably here. ΔE 21.4

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000

actual

#747474

Dark Pink changes substantially here. ΔE 57.8

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

To a deuteranope, the most common form, Dark Pink reads as #A8B061. That is a shift of ΔE 81.8, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. It sits in the red end of the spectrum, which is exactly where red-green deficiency does its damage. Never pair it with a green of similar lightness to signal a difference in meaning: to a large minority the two become one color. The widest shift is under deuteranopia, at ΔE 81.8. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

Simulate a whole palette →

Snippets

Using Dark Pink in code

:root {
  --dark-pink: #CB416B;
}

.example {
  color: var(--dark-pink);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'dark-pink': '#CB416B',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let darkPink = Color(
    red: 0.796,
    green: 0.255,
    blue: 0.420
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="dark_pink">#CB416B</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const darkPink = Color(0xFFCB416B);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Dark Pink Color?

Dark Pink reads as play and attention. It is saturated enough to notice and restrained enough to repeat, and at 57% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 49 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Dark Pink Color?

The closest CSS keyword is PaleVioletRed (#DB7093), though it is not a match: Delta-E 17.9 means the difference is visible side by side. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 205 C at #E54C7C. The name Dark Pink comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Dark Pink Color Made?

On a screen Dark Pink is made by additive light: 203 red, 65 green and 107 blue out of 255, with red leading and 65 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 68%, 47%, 20%. Starting from the pure hue at 342 degrees, Dark Pink is close to the pure hue, with little white or black in it.