Magenta Color Codes

Magenta is a mid-tone, vivid purple with the hex code #FF00FF, RGB values of 255, 0, 255 and an HSL value of hsl(300, 100%, 50%).

HEX	#FF00FF
RGB	255, 0, 255
HSL	hsl(300, 100%, 50%)
HSV	300°, 100%, 100%
CMYK	0%, 100%, 0%, 0%
LAB	60.32, 98.23, -60.82
CIELCHuv	60.32, 137.40, 307.72°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 246 C ΔE 40.5 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: fuchsia ΔE 0.0

Source CSS Color Module Level 4 keyword 'Magenta'

Magenta Color Hex Code

The Magenta color hex code is #FF00FF. Those six digits are three pairs, FF for red, 00 for green and FF for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#FF00FF

Magenta Color RGB Code

The Magenta RGB code is rgb(255, 0, 255). Red carries the most light at 255 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(255, 0, 255)

Magenta Color HSV Code

The Magenta HSV code is 300°, 100%, 100%. Read it as a hue of 300 degrees, 100% saturation and 100% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

300°, 100%, 100%

Magenta Color CIELChuv Code

The Magenta CIELCHuv code is 60.32, 137.40, 307.72°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 60 means mid-toned to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 137 is how far it sits from grey.

60.32, 137.40, 307.72°

Tonal scale

What are Magenta 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 Magenta Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #FF00FF. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Half a turn away is #00FF00, a light, vivid green. This is the widest separation the wheel offers, and the reason complementary pairs are the default for anything that must stand out. Both are saturated, so give the complement much less area than the base or the two will fight.

Analogous

Either side sit #8000FF and #FF0080, 30 degrees out. Low tension by construction: useful when you need several related tones that still feel like one choice.

Triadic

#FFFF00 and #00FFFF 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: #80FF00 and #00FF80. 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 #00FF00, and #FF8000 with #0080FF. 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

3.14:1

3.14

contrast ratio on white background

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

Black background

6.70:1

6.70

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

Against white Magenta reaches 3.14:1, enough for large text and UI borders, but short of the 4.5:1 that body copy needs. Darken it for anything set small. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 6.70:1. It is a highly saturated color, so it will dominate anything it sits beside. Give it space rather than surrounding it with other strong colors.

Check Magenta against another color →

Color vision

How Magenta 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

#C6C5E2

Magenta changes substantially here. ΔE 105.3

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

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#CFDADA

Magenta changes substantially here. ΔE 120.9

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

#F9C6C0

Magenta changes substantially here. ΔE 110.1

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

#919191

Magenta changes substantially here. ΔE 115.5

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, Magenta reads as #CFDADA. That is a shift of ΔE 120.9, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. The widest shift is under deuteranopia, at ΔE 120.9. 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 Magenta in code

:root {
  --magenta: #FF00FF;
}

.example {
  color: var(--magenta);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'magenta': '#FF00FF',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let magenta = Color(
    red: 1.000,
    green: 0.000,
    blue: 1.000
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="magenta">#FF00FF</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const magenta = Color(0xFFFF00FF);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Magenta Color?

Magenta reads as play and attention. It is saturated enough to dominate anything it sits beside, and at 100% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 60 it behaves as a warm-leaning color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Magenta Color?

In CSS you can write Fuchsia instead of the hex and get the same color: the two are 0.0 apart, which no eye resolves. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 246 C at #CC00A0. The name Magenta comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Magenta Color Made?

On a screen Magenta is made by additive light: 255 red, 0 green and 255 blue out of 255, with red leading and 0 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 100%, 0%, 0%. Starting from the pure hue at 300 degrees, Magenta is close to the pure hue, with little white or black in it.