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magenta / pink · neutral

#c024ac

a dark, vivid magenta / pink · neutral · closest name: Medium Violet Red

Token name suggestion: Dusk Fuchsia

RGB
192, 36, 172
HSL
308°, 68%, 45%
CMYK
0, 81, 10, 25
Luminance
0.1545

#c024ac is a dark vivid magenta / pink, 308° on the wheel and 46/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (5.14:1). As text it scores 5.14:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Medium Violet Red, nearest Tailwind family is fuchsia.

hsl(308 68% 45%)rgb(192 36 172)Base step 600AA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #c024ac is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#c024ac
Hue
308°
magenta / pink
Saturation
68%
vivid
Lightness
45%
dark
Brightness
75%
HSV value
Perceived
48%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1545
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
46/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
5.14:1
Closest name
Medium Violet Red
ΔE2000 7.9
Chroma
80.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.567
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
fuchsia
500 · ΔE 12.8
Web-safe
#CC3399
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue308° of 360°
Saturation68%
Lightness45%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #c024ac.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool46% cool

Reads neutral. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red73%
Green8%
Blue19%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#c024ac
HEX (8-digit)#c024acff
RGBrgb(192, 36, 172)
RGBArgba(192, 36, 172, 1)
HSLhsl(308, 68%, 45%)
HSV / HSBhsv(308, 81%, 75%)
HWBhwb(308 14% 25%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 81%, 10%, 25%)
LABlab(46.2 71.4 -36.4)
LCHlch(46.2 80.2 333.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.567 0.231 334.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(29.82, 15.45, 40.43)
Decimal12592300
Display P3color(display-p3 0.753 0.141 0.675)
Web-safe#CC3399

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #c024ac;
background-color: #c024ac;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #c024ac;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#c024ac] bg-[#c024ac]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #c024ac;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.753, green: 0.141, blue: 0.675)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.753, green: 0.141, blue: 0.675, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#C024AC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFC024AC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFC024AC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(172, 36, 192)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(192, 36, 172)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(192, 36, 172)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 192, 36, 172)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7529f, 0.1412f, 0.6745f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{192,36,172}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #c024ac 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #c024ac 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#6B1460, #EED3EB);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #c024ac h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #FBF3FA;
  --brand-100: #F8E8F6;
  --brand-200: #F2CAED;
  --brand-300: #EDA1E3;
  --brand-400: #E471D6;
  --brand-500: #DC42C8;
  --brand-600: #c024ac;
  --brand-700: #AC209A;
  --brand-800: #891A7B;
  --brand-900: #64175A;
  --brand-950: #3E0E38;
  --brand: #c024ac;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4FA;
  --brand-border: #EDC0E7;
  --brand-hover: #A21E91;
  --brand-pressed: #841976;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241422;
    --brand-ink: #EED3EB;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF3FA',
        100: '#F8E8F6',
        200: '#F2CAED',
        300: '#EDA1E3',
        400: '#E471D6',
        500: '#DC42C8',
        600: '#c024ac',
        700: '#AC209A',
        800: '#891A7B',
        900: '#64175A',
        950: '#3E0E38',
        DEFAULT: '#c024ac',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF3FA,
  '100': #F8E8F6,
  '200': #F2CAED,
  '300': #EDA1E3,
  '400': #E471D6,
  '500': #DC42C8,
  '600': #c024ac,
  '700': #AC209A,
  '800': #891A7B,
  '900': #64175A,
  '950': #3E0E38,
);
$brand-base: #c024ac;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF3FA", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F8E8F6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F2CAED", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#EDA1E3", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#E471D6", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#DC42C8", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#c024ac", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#AC209A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#891A7B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#64175A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3E0E38", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#ffffff", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#ffffff on #c024ac · 5.14:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 5.14:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.09:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #c024ac as text scores 5.14:1 on white and 4.09:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #FBEAF9 at 4.46:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#c024ac · 5.14:1
AA on whitealready passes
#c024ac
The quick fox
#991D89 · 7.26:1
AAA on white−9% L
#991D89
The quick fox
#CD26B7 · 4.56:1
AA on black+3% L
#CD26B7
The quick fox
#E367D3 · 7.15:1
AAA on black+20% L
#E367D3

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #C024AC is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#c024ac on white: 5.14:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#c024ac on black: 4.09:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #c024ac as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #c024ac.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White5.14:1AaAa
Slate 504.91:1AaAa
Slate 1004.69:1AaAa
Slate 2004.17:1AaAa
Slate 3003.46:1AaAa
Slate 4002.00:1AaAa
Slate 5001.08:1AaAa
Slate 6001.48:1AaAa
Slate 7002.02:1AaAa
Slate 8002.85:1AaAa
Slate 9003.48:1AaAa
Black4.09:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #205FAF
deuteranopia · #5F75A9
tritanopia · #C93569

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #c024ac is pinned to step 600; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FBF3FA
#F8E8F6
#F2CAED
#EDA1E3
#E471D6
#DC42C8
#c024ac
#AC209A
#891A7B
#64175A
#3E0E38
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #FBF3FADarkest = 950 · #3E0E38Text step on white = 600
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.058 334.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.092 334.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.138 334.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.180 334.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.212 334.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.231 334.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.231 334.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.217 334.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.194 334.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.162 334.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.127 334.3);
}

Colors that work with #c024ac

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#ffffff
White wins here
Surface#FAF4FA
Tinted page background
Border#EDC0E7
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B91
Captions on the surface
Accent#2FB01C
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#6B1460
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FBEAF9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241422
Dark-mode background
Hover#A21E91
One step down in lightness
Pressed#841976
Two steps down
Disabled#BD97B8
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#DE1BC5
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #c024ac

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Black text placed on it
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Any size
Safe as a fill behind white type
Yes
Safe as a 1px border on white
Yes

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

expressiveyouthfulwarmconfident

Pink is the fastest way to signal that a product is not another enterprise dashboard. It carries beauty, fashion and culture brands.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. The low lightness adds weight and formality.

Worth knowing

Strong gendered associations in some markets — test it with the audience you actually have.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight55/100
  • TemperatureNeutral
  • ApproachabilityBalanced

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#24C038
Analogous left#8624C0
Analogous right#C0245E
Split-complement 1#5EC024
Split-complement 2#24C086
Triadic 1#ACC024
Triadic 2#24ACC0
Tetradic#C08624
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°308°

#c024ac sits at 308°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red75.3%
Green14.1%
Blue67.5%
R · 0–255
192
0xc0
G · 0–255
36
0x24
B · 0–255
172
0xac

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta81.3%
Yellow10.4%
Key (black)24.7%

Total ink coverage is 116%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#c024ac text on a black background

contrast 4.09:1

Card sample

#c024ac text on a white background

contrast 5.14:1

Card sample

#c024ac on grey

4.69:1

#c024ac on its own surface

4.74:1

#c024ac on its dark surface

3.41:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #c024ac;
Background color
Panel with #c024ac background
background-color: #c024ac;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #c024ac;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(192, 36, 172, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(192, 36, 172, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #c024ac;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #c024ac, #C02444);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #c024ac, #C02B24);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #c024ac;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #c024ac;
caret-color: #c024ac;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #c024ac;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FBEAF9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #c024ac;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#c024ac 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #c024ac over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(192, 36, 172, 0.5)
rgb(192 36 172 / 50%)
#c024ac80
hsl(308 68% 45% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #c024ac 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#c024ac1a#F9E9F7
20%#c024ac33#F2D3EE
40%#c024ac66#E6A7DE
60%#c024ac99#D97CCD
80%#c024accc#CD50BD

Gradients from #c024ac

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #DC45C9, #c024ac 45%, #6B1460);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #c024ac, #A61F30);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #c024ac, #24C038);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #E15FD0 0%, #c024ac 45%, #6B1460 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #933CDA 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #D72B5D 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #6B1460 0%, transparent 65%), #c024ac;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #c024ac

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#c024ac in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
BeautyFashionLifestyleYouth brands
Common UI roles
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

On screens

Holds up across typical panel gamma. Still worth checking on an uncalibrated laptop, where mid-tones shift most.

In dark mode

Too dim on dark surfaces at 4.09:1 — lift it to #CD26B7 for body text, or reserve it for fills.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#c024ac, answered

What color is #c024ac?

#c024ac is a dark vivid magenta / pink, closest to Medium Violet Red (ΔE2000 7.9). It sits at 308° on the hue wheel with 68% saturation and 45% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #c024ac?

rgb(192, 36, 172) — 192 red, 36 green and 172 blue out of 255, or 75.3% / 14.1% / 67.5% by channel.

What is #c024ac in HSL and HSV?

hsl(308, 68%, 45%) and hsv(308, 81%, 75%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #c024ac a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1545 and perceived brightness is 48%, so white text on it reaches 5.14:1.

Should I use black or white text on #c024ac?

White. It scores 5.14:1 against #c024ac, versus 4.09:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #c024ac accessible on a white background?

#c024ac on white scores 5.14:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #c024ac?

#24C038 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #5EC024 and #24C086, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #c024ac?

For interface work: #FAF4FA as the surface, #EDC0E7 for borders, #9B4B91 for secondary text, #2FB01C as an accent and #6B1460 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #8624C0 and #C0245E stays calm, while #24C038 is the loudest partner.

What is #c024ac in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 81%, 10%, 25%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #c024ac warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 46 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #C02473; nudged cooler, #9C22C2.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #c024ac?

The fuchsia family — its 500 step is #d946ef, ΔE2000 12.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #c024ac as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #c024ac in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#c024ac] or text-[#c024ac], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #c024ac with 50% opacity?

rgba(192, 36, 172, 0.5), or #c024ac80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E092D6; over black, #601256.

Is #c024ac a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CC3399, ΔE2000 6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #c024ac mean?

As a magenta / pink, it reads expressive, youthful, warm. Pink is the fastest way to signal that a product is not another enterprise dashboard. It carries beauty, fashion and culture brands. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #c024ac?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #DC45C9, #c024ac 45%, #6B1460). For more colour, a short hue run to #A61F30 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #c024ac in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #c024ac at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.