Pink Color Codes

Pink is a light, vivid red with the hex code #FFC0CB, RGB values of 255, 192, 203 and an HSL value of hsl(350, 100%, 88%).

HEX	#FFC0CB
RGB	255, 192, 203
HSL	hsl(350, 100%, 88%)
HSV	350°, 25%, 100%
CMYK	0%, 25%, 20%, 0%
LAB	83.59, 24.14, 3.33
CIELCHuv	83.59, 38.57, 0.65°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 1895 C ΔE 1.0 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: pink ΔE 0.0

Source CSS Color Module Level 4 keyword 'Pink'

Pink Color Hex Code

The Pink color hex code is #FFC0CB. Those six digits are three pairs, FF for red, C0 for green and CB for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#FFC0CB

Pink Color RGB Code

The Pink RGB code is rgb(255, 192, 203). Red carries the most light at 255 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(255, 192, 203)

Pink Color HSV Code

The Pink HSV code is 350°, 25%, 100%. Read it as a hue of 350 degrees, 25% saturation and 100% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

350°, 25%, 100%

Pink Color CIELChuv Code

The Pink CIELCHuv code is 83.59, 38.57, 0.65°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 84 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 39 is how far it sits from grey.

83.59, 38.57, 0.65°

Tonal scale

What are 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 Pink Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #FFC0CB. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Half a turn away is #C0FFF4, a very light, vivid teal. 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 #FFC0EB and #FFD5C0, 30 degrees out. Low tension by construction: useful when you need several related tones that still feel like one choice.

Triadic

#CBFFC0 and #C0CBFF 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: #C0FFD5 and #C0EBFF. 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 #C0FFF4, and #EBFFC0 with #D5C0FF. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat the darkest of the four 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

1.54:1

1.54

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	Fails	Fails
UI component needs 3:1	Fails	n/a

Black background

13.65:1

13.65

contrast ratio on black background

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

At 1.54:1 against white, Pink is a fill color rather than a text color. Use it for surfaces, borders and large display type, and set the copy in ink. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 13.65:1. 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 Pink against another color →

Color vision

How 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

#E7E6C8

Pink changes substantially here. ΔE 31.8

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

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#EAEEC8

Pink changes substantially here. ΔE 36.2

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

#FCC6C6

Pink shifts slightly here. ΔE 6.5

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

#D0D0D0

Pink shifts noticeably here. ΔE 24.4

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, Pink reads as #EAEEC8. That is a shift of ΔE 36.2, 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 36.2. 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 Pink in code

:root {
  --pink: #FFC0CB;
}

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

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'pink': '#FFC0CB',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let pink = Color(
    red: 1.000,
    green: 0.753,
    blue: 0.796
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="pink">#FFC0CB</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const pink = Color(0xFFFFC0CB);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Pink Color?

Pink reads as warmth and confidence. It is light enough to sit behind text rather than compete with it, and at 100% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 84 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Pink Color?

In CSS you can write Pink 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 1895 C at #FCBFC9. The name Pink comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Pink Color Made?

On a screen Pink is made by additive light: 255 red, 192 green and 203 blue out of 255, with red leading and 192 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 25%, 20%, 0%. Starting from the pure hue at 350 degrees, Pink is a tint, so it is that hue with white added.