#A00A80

sRGB: 160 / 10 / 128

#A00A80 belongs to the magenta family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 160 red, 10 green and 128 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 312.8° lands in the magenta region. Its 88.2% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 33.3% on a scale from black (0%) to white (100%). Of black and white lettering, white has the clearer light-to-dark separation on this background (7.37:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 160, 10, 128
HSL: 312.80°, 88.24%, 33.33%
HSV / HSB: 312.80°, 93.75%, 62.75%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 93.75%, 20.00%, 37.25%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 18.501, 9.250, 21.234
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 36.462, 63.645, -25.521
WCAG relative luminance: 0.09249
24-bit decimal: 10488448

CMYK uses a profile-free approximation. Printed output depends on the press, ink and paper. Lab uses a D65 white point.

Text contrast

Contrast tells you how clearly lettering separates from #A00A80 in light and dark. The ratio compares relative luminance, a measure of light weighted for human vision. Identical colors give 1:1 and black against white gives 21:1. A ratio of 2.99:1 falls just below the 3:1 AA minimum for large text. Body text needs at least 4.5:1 because its finer strokes are harder to distinguish.

Black text: 2.85:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

White text: 7.37:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

AA and AAA are WCAG accessibility levels. AAA sets a higher bar: 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text. Large text begins at 18 pt regular or 14 pt bold. Ratings use the unrounded ratio.

Reference: WCAG text contrast guidance

Palettes & scales

Harmonies rotate the hue. Scales mix the starting color with white, black or middle gray in 20% steps in encoded sRGB.

Complementary

#0AA02A sits half a turn (180°) from #A00A80 on the HSL wheel. Keeping saturation and lightness steady while crossing to the opposite hue gives you a contrasting accent. Check text contrast separately before using the pair for lettering.

#A00A80 #0AA02A

Analogous

#750AA0 and #A00A35 sit 30° to either side of #A00A80. The three hues are neighbors on the wheel, so you can change the color of a border or highlight while keeping it close to the original.

#750AA0 #A00A80 #A00A35

Triadic

#A00A80, #80A00A and #0A80A0 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#A00A80 #80A00A #0A80A0

Split complementary

Start at #A00A80 and look across the wheel. #35A00A and #0AA075 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#A00A80 #35A00A #0AA075

Square

Starting with #A00A80, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #A0750A, #0AA02A, then #0A35A0. Across the square, #A00A80 pairs with #0AA02A, and #A0750A with #0A35A0.

#A00A80 #A0750A #0AA02A #0A35A0

Tetradic

#A00A80 and #0AA02A are opposites, as are #A02A0A and #0A80A0. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#A00A80 #A02A0A #0AA02A #0A80A0

Tints

Mixing #A00A80 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B33B99, keeps 80% of the original. By #ECCEE6, the mixture is 80% white.

#A00A80 #B33B99 #C66CB3 #D99DCC #ECCEE6 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #A00A80 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #800866, keeps 80% of the original. By #20021A, the mixture is 80% black.

#A00A80 #800866 #60064D #400433 #20021A #000000

Tones

Mixing #A00A80 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #9A2280, keeps 80% of the original. By #866880, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#A00A80 #9A2280 #933980 #8D5180 #866880 #808080

Copy color codes

Hex, RGB and HSL are three ways to write this screen color. Paste any of them into a CSS color property.

Hex

#A00A80

RGB

rgb(160 10 128)

HSL

hsl(312.800 88.235% 33.333%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #A00A80;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#A00A80 uses 160 red, 10 green and 128 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 62.7%

Green 3.9%

Blue 50.2%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #A00A80 is 0.0% cyan, 93.8% magenta, 20.0% yellow and 37.3% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 93.8%

Yellow 20.0%

Black 37.3%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #991188. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #918 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #A00A80 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #990099, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #991188 Nearest web-safe: #990099

Gradient to complement

#A00A80 #872372 #6E3C63 #555555 #3C6E47 #238738 #0AA02A

Color vision previews

Compare how #A00A80 appears in each simulation. When two chart lines or status indicators become hard to tell apart, a label, shape or line pattern gives readers another way to distinguish them. Individual perception varies.

Protanopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from long-wavelength cones, some reds and greens can look alike, and reds can appear darker.

#1D4883

Deuteranopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from medium-wavelength cones, some greens can be difficult to distinguish from reds or browns.

#515E7D

Tritanopia

A blue–yellow color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from short-wavelength cones, blue can resemble green, and yellow can resemble pink.

#AA144A

Protanomaly (50%)

An altered long-wavelength cone response can make reds appear dimmer and harder to distinguish from greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#663E81

Deuteranomaly (50%)

An altered medium-wavelength cone response can reduce the visible difference between reds and greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#704D7E

Tritanomaly (50%)

An altered short-wavelength cone response can make blue harder to distinguish from green. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#9F1B71

Grayscale (luminance)

This design check removes hue and preserves relative luminance so you can compare light and dark areas.

#565656

Partial grayscale (50% blend)

This design check mixes the original color halfway toward its grayscale equivalent in linear light. Use it to see how a design holds up as color fades.

#823E6D

Reference: National Eye Institute: Types of Color Vision Deficiency

Technical reference

CAM16 and CIECAM02 below assume D65 white, an average surround, background Y of 20 against white at 100, and adapting luminance of 4.07 cd/m².

Linear sRGB

These channels scale with emitted light. Use them for lighting calculations and physically meaningful blends.

R 0.35153 G 0.00304 B 0.21586

Display P3

P3 displays can reproduce a wider range of reds and greens. These coordinates reproduce this same sRGB swatch on a color-managed P3 display.

R 0.57456 G 0.12632 B 0.48763

Linear Display P3

These P3 channels are proportional to light, before display encoding.

R 0.28966 G 0.01460 B 0.20277

CIE xyY

The x and y coordinates locate chromaticity on a diagram. Y gives relative luminance on a scale where white is 100.

x 0.378 y 0.189 Y 9.250

CMY

Ideal cyan, magenta and yellow are the complements of the encoded red, green and blue channels.

C % 37.255 M % 96.078 Y % 49.804

Binary RGB

Each eight-bit group represents one channel. Together they store the 24-bit hex color.

10100000 00001010 10000000