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magenta / pink · neutral

#ea8eee

a light, vivid magenta / pink · neutral · closest name: Violet

Token name suggestion: Drift Ruby

RGB
234, 142, 238
HSL
298°, 74%, 75%
CMYK
2, 40, 0, 7
Luminance
0.4301

#ea8eee is a light vivid magenta / pink, 298° on the wheel and 51/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (9.60:1). As text it scores 2.19:1 on white — use #C71FCE instead. Nearest name is Violet, nearest Tailwind family is fuchsia.

hsl(298 74% 75%)rgb(234 142 238)Base step 300AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #ea8eee is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#ea8eee
Hue
298°
magenta / pink
Saturation
74%
vivid
Lightness
75%
light
Brightness
93%
HSV value
Perceived
73%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4301
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
51/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
9.60:1
Closest name
Violet
ΔE2000 2.5
Chroma
59.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.775
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
fuchsia
500 · ΔE 14.2
Web-safe
#FF99FF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue298° of 360°
Saturation74%
Lightness75%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #ea8eee.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool51% 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
Red41%
Green45%
Blue14%

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

Every format

HEX#ea8eee
HEX (8-digit)#ea8eeeff
RGBrgb(234, 142, 238)
RGBArgba(234, 142, 238, 1)
HSLhsl(298, 74%, 75%)
HSV / HSBhsv(298, 40%, 93%)
HWBhwb(298 56% 7%)
CMYKcmyk(2%, 40%, 0%, 7%)
LABlab(71.6 49.2 -34.0)
LCHlch(71.6 59.8 325.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.775 0.164 325.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(59.04, 43.01, 86.07)
Decimal15372014
Display P3color(display-p3 0.918 0.557 0.933)
Web-safe#FF99FF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #ea8eee;
background-color: #ea8eee;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #ea8eee;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#ea8eee] bg-[#ea8eee]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #ea8eee;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.918, green: 0.557, blue: 0.933)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.918, green: 0.557, blue: 0.933, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#EA8EEE</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFEA8EEE)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFEA8EEE)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(238, 142, 234)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(234, 142, 238)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(234, 142, 238)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 234, 142, 238)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9176f, 0.5569f, 0.9333f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{234,142,238}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #ea8eee 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #ea8eee 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#6B116F, #EDD3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #ea8eee 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: #FBF3FC;
  --brand-100: #F8E7F9;
  --brand-200: #F2C8F3;
  --brand-300: #ea8eee;
  --brand-400: #E46DE9;
  --brand-500: #DB3CE2;
  --brand-600: #CD20D5;
  --brand-700: #AB1BB1;
  --brand-800: #89158E;
  --brand-900: #631467;
  --brand-950: #3E0C40;
  --brand: #ea8eee;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4FA;
  --brand-border: #EBC0ED;
  --brand-hover: #E46FE9;
  --brand-pressed: #DE50E5;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241424;
    --brand-ink: #EDD3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF3FC',
        100: '#F8E7F9',
        200: '#F2C8F3',
        300: '#ea8eee',
        400: '#E46DE9',
        500: '#DB3CE2',
        600: '#CD20D5',
        700: '#AB1BB1',
        800: '#89158E',
        900: '#631467',
        950: '#3E0C40',
        DEFAULT: '#ea8eee',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF3FC,
  '100': #F8E7F9,
  '200': #F2C8F3,
  '300': #ea8eee,
  '400': #E46DE9,
  '500': #DB3CE2,
  '600': #CD20D5,
  '700': #AB1BB1,
  '800': #89158E,
  '900': #631467,
  '950': #3E0C40,
);
$brand-base: #ea8eee;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF3FC", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F8E7F9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F2C8F3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#ea8eee", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#E46DE9", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#DB3CE2", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#CD20D5", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#AB1BB1", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#89158E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#631467", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3E0C40", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#000000", "$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#000000 on #ea8eee · 9.60:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.19:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 9.60:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #ea8eee as text scores 2.19:1 on white and 9.60:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #6B116F at 4.96:1.

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
#C71FCE · 4.65:1
AA on white−28% L
#C71FCE
The quick fox
#98189D · 7.11:1
AAA on white−39% L
#98189D
The quick fox
#ea8eee · 9.60:1
AA on blackalready passes
#ea8eee
The quick fox
#ea8eee · 9.60:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#ea8eee

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #E15DE7 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
#ea8eee on white: 2.19:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#ea8eee on black: 9.60:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #ea8eee as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #ea8eee.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.19:1AaAa
Slate 502.09:1AaAa
Slate 1002.00:1AaAa
Slate 2001.77:1AaAa
Slate 3001.47:1AaAa
Slate 4001.17:1AaAa
Slate 5002.18:1AaAa
Slate 6003.46:1AaAa
Slate 7004.73:1AaAa
Slate 8006.69:1AaAa
Slate 9008.16:1AaAa
Black9.60:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #85A8F1
deuteranopia · #9EB3EB
tritanopia · #EF98B3

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. #ea8eee is pinned to step 300; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FBF3FC
#F8E7F9
#F2C8F3
#ea8eee
#E46DE9
#DB3CE2
#CD20D5
#AB1BB1
#89158E
#631467
#3E0C40
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #FBF3FCDarkest = 950 · #3E0C40Text step on white = 700
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 0.041 325.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.066 325.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.098 325.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.128 325.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.151 325.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.164 325.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.164 325.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.154 325.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.138 325.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.115 325.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.090 325.5);
}

Colors that work with #ea8eee

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

Text on it#000000
Black wins here
Surface#FAF4FA
Tinted page background
Border#EBC0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#984B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#45B616
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#6B116F
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FBE9FC
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241424
Dark-mode background
Hover#E46FE9
One step down in lightness
Pressed#DE50E5
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F3F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F29AF6
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 #ea8eee

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

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • White text placed on it
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #6B116F
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #E15DE7

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 lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight26/100
  • 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#92EE8E
Analogous left#BA8EEE
Analogous right#EE8EC2
Split-complement 1#C2EE8E
Split-complement 2#8EEEBA
Triadic 1#EEEA8E
Triadic 2#8EEEEA
Tetradic#EEBA8E
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°298°

#ea8eee sits at 298°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red91.8%
Green55.7%
Blue93.3%
R · 0–255
234
0xea
G · 0–255
142
0x8e
B · 0–255
238
0xee

CMYK percentages

Cyan1.7%
Magenta40.3%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)6.7%

Total ink coverage is 49%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#ea8eee text on a black background

contrast 9.60:1

Card sample

#ea8eee text on a white background

contrast 2.19:1

Card sample

#ea8eee on grey

2.00:1

#ea8eee on its own surface

2.02:1

#ea8eee on its dark surface

8.00:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #ea8eee;
Background color
Panel with #ea8eee background
background-color: #ea8eee;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #ea8eee;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(234, 142, 238, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(234, 142, 238, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #ea8eee;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ea8eee, #EE8EB2);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ea8eee, #EE8E9A);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #ea8eee;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #ea8eee;
caret-color: #ea8eee;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #ea8eee;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FBE9FC;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #ea8eee;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#ea8eee 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #ea8eee 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(234, 142, 238, 0.5)
rgb(234 142 238 / 50%)
#ea8eee80
hsl(298 74% 75% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #ea8eee 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#ea8eee1a#FDF4FD
20%#ea8eee33#FBE8FC
40%#ea8eee66#F7D2F8
60%#ea8eee99#F2BBF5
80%#ea8eeecc#EEA5F1

Gradients from #ea8eee

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, #F4C3F6, #ea8eee 45%, #6B116F);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #ea8eee, #EA7396);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ea8eee, #92EE8E);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F9DEFA 0%, #ea8eee 45%, #6B116F 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%, #D0BAF5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F2A9CA 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #6B116F 0%, transparent 65%), #ea8eee;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #ea8eee

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.

#ea8eee 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
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
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

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 9.60:1.

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.

#ea8eee, answered

What color is #ea8eee?

#ea8eee is a light vivid magenta / pink, closest to Violet (ΔE2000 2.5). It sits at 298° on the hue wheel with 74% saturation and 75% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #ea8eee?

rgb(234, 142, 238) — 234 red, 142 green and 238 blue out of 255, or 91.8% / 55.7% / 93.3% by channel.

What is #ea8eee in HSL and HSV?

hsl(298, 74%, 75%) and hsv(298, 40%, 93%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #ea8eee a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4301 and perceived brightness is 73%, so black text on it reaches 9.60:1.

Should I use black or white text on #ea8eee?

Black. It scores 9.60:1 against #ea8eee, versus 2.19:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #ea8eee accessible on a white background?

#ea8eee on white scores 2.19:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #C71FCE to reach 4.5:1, or #98189D for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #ea8eee?

#92EE8E sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #C2EE8E and #8EEEBA, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #ea8eee?

For interface work: #FAF4FA as the surface, #EBC0ED for borders, #984B9B for secondary text, #45B616 as an accent and #6B116F for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #BA8EEE and #EE8EC2 stays calm, while #92EE8E is the loudest partner.

What is #ea8eee in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(2%, 40%, 0%, 7%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #ea8eee warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 51 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #EE8ECF; nudged cooler, #C78DEF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #ea8eee?

The fuchsia family — its 500 step is #d946ef, ΔE2000 14.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #ea8eee as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #ea8eee in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#ea8eee] or text-[#ea8eee], 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 #ea8eee with 50% opacity?

rgba(234, 142, 238, 0.5), or #ea8eee80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F5C7F7; over black, #754777.

Is #ea8eee a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FF99FF, ΔE2000 4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #ea8eee 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 #ea8eee?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F4C3F6, #ea8eee 45%, #6B116F). For more colour, a short hue run to #EA7396 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #ea8eee in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #ea8eee at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.