#CA01AC

sRGB: 202 / 1 / 172

Celestial flames flourish beyond boundaries
Silent memories disappear beneath stillness
Brilliant stars awaken sleeping galaxies

#CA01AC belongs to the magenta family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 202 red, 1 green and 172 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 309.0° lands in the magenta region. Its 99.0% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 39.8% 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 (5.11:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 202, 1, 172
HSL: 308.96°, 99.01%, 39.80%
HSV / HSB: 308.96°, 99.50%, 79.22%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 99.50%, 14.85%, 20.78%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 31.813, 15.559, 40.359
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 46.390, 78.235, -36.087
WCAG relative luminance: 0.15557
24-bit decimal: 13238700

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 #CA01AC 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: 4.11:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: AA

White text: 5.11:1

Normal text: AA
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

#01CA1F sits half a turn (180°) from #CA01AC 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.

#CA01AC #01CA1F

Analogous

#8401CA and #CA0148 sit 30° to either side of #CA01AC. 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.

#8401CA #CA01AC #CA0148

Triadic

#CA01AC, #ACCA01 and #01ACCA are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#CA01AC #ACCA01 #01ACCA

Split complementary

Start at #CA01AC and look across the wheel. #47CA01 and #01CA84 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#CA01AC #47CA01 #01CA84

Square

Starting with #CA01AC, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #CA8401, #01CA1F, then #0147CA. Across the square, #CA01AC pairs with #01CA1F, and #CA8401 with #0147CA.

#CA01AC #CA8401 #01CA1F #0147CA

Tetradic

#CA01AC and #01CA1F are opposites, as are #CA1F01 and #01ACCA. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#CA01AC #CA1F01 #01CA1F #01ACCA

Tints

Mixing #CA01AC with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #D534BD, keeps 80% of the original. By #F4CCEE, the mixture is 80% white.

#CA01AC #D534BD #DF67CD #EA99DE #F4CCEE #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #CA01AC with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A2018A, keeps 80% of the original. By #280022, the mixture is 80% black.

#CA01AC #A2018A #790167 #510045 #280022 #000000

Tones

Mixing #CA01AC with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BB1AA3, keeps 80% of the original. By #8F6789, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#CA01AC #BB1AA3 #AC349A #9E4D92 #8F6789 #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

#CA01AC

RGB

rgb(202 1 172)

HSL

hsl(308.955 99.015% 39.804%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #CA01AC;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#CA01AC uses 202 red, 1 green and 172 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 79.2%

Green 0.4%

Blue 67.5%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #CA01AC is 0.0% cyan, 99.5% magenta, 14.9% yellow and 20.8% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 99.5%

Yellow 14.9%

Black 20.8%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #CC00AA. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #C0A in CSS. For a modern design, keep #CA01AC when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CC0099, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #CC00AA Nearest web-safe: #CC0099

Gradient to complement

#CA01AC #A92395 #87447D #666666 #44874E #23A937 #01CA1F

Color vision previews

Compare how #CA01AC 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.

#115DB0

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.

#6277A8

Tritanopia

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

#D52164

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.

#7F50AD

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.

#8B62AA

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#C92297

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#6E6E6E

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.

#A44F91

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 0.59062 G 0.00030 B 0.41254

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 0.72594 G 0.15127 B 0.65437

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.48582 G 0.01990 B 0.38574

CIE xyY

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

x 0.363 y 0.177 Y 15.559

CMY

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

C % 20.784 M % 99.608 Y % 32.549

Binary RGB

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

11001010 00000001 10101100