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magenta / pink · neutral

#e331da

a balanced, electric magenta / pink · neutral · closest name: Magenta

Token name suggestion: Signal Blossom

RGB
227, 49, 218
HSL
303°, 76%, 54%
CMYK
0, 78, 4, 11
Luminance
0.2359

#e331da is a balanced electric magenta / pink, 303° on the wheel and 48/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (5.72:1). As text it scores 3.67:1 on white — large text only. Nearest name is Magenta, nearest Tailwind family is fuchsia.

hsl(303 76% 54%)rgb(227 49 218)Base step 500AA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #e331da is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#e331da
Hue
303°
magenta / pink
Saturation
76%
electric
Lightness
54%
balanced
Brightness
89%
HSV value
Perceived
58%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.2359
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
48/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
5.72:1
Closest name
Magenta
ΔE2000 5.6
Chroma
94.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.654
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
fuchsia
500 · ΔE 4.1
Web-safe
#CC33CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue303° of 360°
Saturation76%
Lightness54%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #e331da.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool48% 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
Red69%
Green9%
Blue21%

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

Every format

HEX#e331da
HEX (8-digit)#e331daff
RGBrgb(227, 49, 218)
RGBArgba(227, 49, 218, 1)
HSLhsl(303, 76%, 54%)
HSV / HSBhsv(303, 78%, 89%)
HWBhwb(303 19% 11%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 78%, 4%, 11%)
LABlab(55.7 82.0 -47.8)
LCHlch(55.7 94.9 329.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.654 0.268 330.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(45.43, 23.59, 68.48)
Decimal14889434
Display P3color(display-p3 0.890 0.192 0.855)
Web-safe#CC33CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #e331da;
background-color: #e331da;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #e331da;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#e331da] bg-[#e331da]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #e331da;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.890, green: 0.192, blue: 0.855)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.890, green: 0.192, blue: 0.855, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#E331DA</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFE331DA)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFE331DA)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(218, 49, 227)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(227, 49, 218)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(227, 49, 218)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 227, 49, 218)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8902f, 0.1922f, 0.8549f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{227,49,218}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #e331da 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #e331da 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#700F6B, #EED3ED);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #e331da 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: #FCF3FB;
  --brand-100: #F9E7F8;
  --brand-200: #F4C8F2;
  --brand-300: #F29CED;
  --brand-400: #EB6BE4;
  --brand-500: #e331da;
  --brand-600: #D81DCE;
  --brand-700: #B418AC;
  --brand-800: #901489;
  --brand-900: #681264;
  --brand-950: #410B3E;
  --brand: #e331da;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4FA;
  --brand-border: #EDC0EA;
  --brand-hover: #D41DCA;
  --brand-pressed: #B418AC;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241424;
    --brand-ink: #EED3ED;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FCF3FB',
        100: '#F9E7F8',
        200: '#F4C8F2',
        300: '#F29CED',
        400: '#EB6BE4',
        500: '#e331da',
        600: '#D81DCE',
        700: '#B418AC',
        800: '#901489',
        900: '#681264',
        950: '#410B3E',
        DEFAULT: '#e331da',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FCF3FB,
  '100': #F9E7F8,
  '200': #F4C8F2,
  '300': #F29CED,
  '400': #EB6BE4,
  '500': #e331da,
  '600': #D81DCE,
  '700': #B418AC,
  '800': #901489,
  '900': #681264,
  '950': #410B3E,
);
$brand-base: #e331da;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FCF3FB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F9E7F8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F4C8F2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#F29CED", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#EB6BE4", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#e331da", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#D81DCE", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#B418AC", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#901489", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#681264", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#410B3E", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #e331da · 5.72:1
Use #000000AA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 3.67:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 5.72:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #e331da as text scores 3.67:1 on white and 5.72:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #700F6B at 2.90:1.

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
#CF1CC6 · 4.53:1
AA on white−8% L
#CF1CC6
The quick fox
#991593 · 7.28:1
AAA on white−20% L
#991593
The quick fox
#e331da · 5.72:1
AA on blackalready passes
#e331da
The quick fox
#E95EE2 · 7.16:1
AAA on black+10% L
#E95EE2

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #E331DA 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
#e331da on white: 3.67:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#e331da on black: 5.72:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #e331da as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #e331da.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White3.67:1AaAa
Slate 503.51:1AaAa
Slate 1003.35:1AaAa
Slate 2002.98:1AaAa
Slate 3002.47:1AaAa
Slate 4001.43:1AaAa
Slate 5001.30:1AaAa
Slate 6002.06:1AaAa
Slate 7002.82:1AaAa
Slate 8003.98:1AaAa
Slate 9004.86:1AaAa
Black5.72:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #1176DE
deuteranopia · #6C8ED6
tritanopia · #EC4C86

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. #e331da is pinned to step 500; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FCF3FB
#F9E7F8
#F4C8F2
#F29CED
#EB6BE4
#e331da
#D81DCE
#B418AC
#901489
#681264
#410B3E
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #FCF3FBDarkest = 950 · #410B3EText 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 0.067 330.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.107 330.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.161 330.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.209 330.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.246 330.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.268 330.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.268 330.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.252 330.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.225 330.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.187 330.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.147 330.5);
}

Colors that work with #e331da

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#EDC0EA
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B97
Captions on the surface
Accent#35B814
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#700F6B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FCE9FB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241424
Dark-mode background
Hover#D41DCA
One step down in lightness
Pressed#B418AC
Two steps down
Disabled#CFB5CE
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F038E7
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 #e331da

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

Works well for
  • Headings from 24px up on white
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Small text on white — under 4.5:1
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
24px / 18.66px bold
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #700F6B
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.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. The mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight46/100
  • 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#31E33A
Analogous left#9331E3
Analogous right#E33181
Split-complement 1#81E331
Split-complement 2#31E393
Triadic 1#DAE331
Triadic 2#31DAE3
Tetradic#E39331
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°303°

#e331da sits at 303°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red89.0%
Green19.2%
Blue85.5%
R · 0–255
227
0xe3
G · 0–255
49
0x31
B · 0–255
218
0xda

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta78.4%
Yellow4.0%
Key (black)11.0%

Total ink coverage is 93%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#e331da text on a black background

contrast 5.72:1

Card sample

#e331da text on a white background

contrast 3.67:1

Card sample

#e331da on grey

3.35:1

#e331da on its own surface

3.39:1

#e331da on its dark surface

4.76:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #e331da;
Background color
Panel with #e331da background
background-color: #e331da;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #e331da;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(227, 49, 218, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(227, 49, 218, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #e331da;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #e331da, #E33163);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #e331da, #E33137);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #e331da;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #e331da;
caret-color: #e331da;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #e331da;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FCE9FB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #e331da;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#e331da 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #e331da 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(227, 49, 218, 0.5)
rgb(227 49 218 / 50%)
#e331da80
hsl(303 76% 54% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #e331da 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#e331da1a#FCEAFB
20%#e331da33#F9D6F8
40%#e331da66#F4ADF0
60%#e331da99#EE83E9
80%#e331dacc#E95AE1

Gradients from #e331da

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, #EA67E4, #e331da 45%, #700F6B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #e331da, #D81D43);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #e331da, #31E33A);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #EE82E9 0%, #e331da 45%, #700F6B 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%, #9F5EE9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E74C85 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #700F6B 0%, transparent 65%), #e331da;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #e331da

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.

#e331da 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

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

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 5.72:1.

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.

#e331da, answered

What color is #e331da?

#e331da is a balanced electric magenta / pink, closest to Magenta (ΔE2000 5.6). It sits at 303° on the hue wheel with 76% saturation and 54% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #e331da?

rgb(227, 49, 218) — 227 red, 49 green and 218 blue out of 255, or 89% / 19.2% / 85.5% by channel.

What is #e331da in HSL and HSV?

hsl(303, 76%, 54%) and hsv(303, 78%, 89%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #e331da a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.2359 and perceived brightness is 58%, so black text on it reaches 5.72:1.

Should I use black or white text on #e331da?

Black. It scores 5.72:1 against #e331da, versus 3.67:1 for white — AA at any size.

Is #e331da accessible on a white background?

#e331da on white scores 3.67:1, which only clears AA for large text — 18.66px bold or 24px regular and up. Darken it to #CF1CC6 to reach 4.5:1, or #991593 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #e331da?

#31E33A sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #81E331 and #31E393, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #e331da?

For interface work: #FAF4FA as the surface, #EDC0EA for borders, #9B4B97 for secondary text, #35B814 as an accent and #700F6B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #9331E3 and #E33181 stays calm, while #31E33A is the loudest partner.

What is #e331da in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 78%, 4%, 11%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — a color this saturated sits outside most CMYK gamuts and will print duller than it looks here.

Is #e331da warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 48 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #E33199; nudged cooler, #AB2FE5.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #e331da?

The fuchsia family — its 500 step is #d946ef, ΔE2000 4.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #e331da as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #e331da in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#e331da] or text-[#e331da], 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 #e331da with 50% opacity?

rgba(227, 49, 218, 0.5), or #e331da80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F198ED; over black, #72196D.

Is #e331da a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CC33CC, ΔE2000 4.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #e331da 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 #e331da?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EA67E4, #e331da 45%, #700F6B). For more colour, a short hue run to #D81D43 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #e331da in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #e331da at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.