#E00A95

sRGB: 224 / 10 / 149

Infinite horizons linger without sound
Silent memories awaken beneath celestial skies
Rising tides settle beneath starlight

#E00A95 belongs to the rose family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 224 red, 10 green and 149 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 321.0° lands in the rose region. Its 91.5% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 45.9% on a scale from black (0%) to white (100%). Of black and white lettering, black has the clearer light-to-dark separation on this background (4.65:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 224, 10, 149
HSL: 321.03°, 91.45%, 45.88%
HSV / HSB: 321.03°, 95.54%, 87.84%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 95.54%, 33.48%, 12.16%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 36.273, 18.237, 30.045
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 49.782, 79.132, -16.780
WCAG relative luminance: 0.18234
24-bit decimal: 14682773

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 #E00A95 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: 4.65:1

Normal text: AA
Large text: AAA

White text: 4.52:1

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

#0AE055 sits half a turn (180°) from #E00A95 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.

#E00A95 #0AE055

Analogous

#C00AE0 and #E00A2A sit 30° to either side of #E00A95. 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.

#C00AE0 #E00A95 #E00A2A

Triadic

#E00A95, #95E00A and #0A95E0 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#E00A95 #95E00A #0A95E0

Split complementary

Start at #E00A95 and look across the wheel. #2AE00A and #0AE0C0 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#E00A95 #2AE00A #0AE0C0

Square

Starting with #E00A95, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #E0C00A, #0AE055, then #0A2AE0. Across the square, #E00A95 pairs with #0AE055, and #E0C00A with #0A2AE0.

#E00A95 #E0C00A #0AE055 #0A2AE0

Tetradic

#E00A95 and #0AE055 are opposites, as are #E0550A and #0A95E0. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#E00A95 #E0550A #0AE055 #0A95E0

Tints

Mixing #E00A95 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #E63BAA, keeps 80% of the original. By #F9CEEA, the mixture is 80% white.

#E00A95 #E63BAA #EC6CBF #F39DD5 #F9CEEA #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #E00A95 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B30877, keeps 80% of the original. By #2D021E, the mixture is 80% black.

#E00A95 #B30877 #860659 #5A043C #2D021E #000000

Tones

Mixing #E00A95 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CD2291, keeps 80% of the original. By #936884, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#E00A95 #CD2291 #BA398D #A65188 #936884 #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

#E00A95

RGB

rgb(224 10 149)

HSL

hsl(321.028 91.453% 45.882%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #E00A95;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#E00A95 uses 224 red, 10 green and 149 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 87.8%

Green 3.9%

Blue 58.4%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #E00A95 is 0.0% cyan, 95.5% magenta, 33.5% yellow and 12.2% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 95.5%

Yellow 33.5%

Black 12.2%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #DD1199. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #D19 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #E00A95 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CC0099, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #DD1199 Nearest web-safe: #CC0099

Gradient to complement

#E00A95 #BC2E8A #995180 #757575 #51996A #2EBC60 #0AE055

Color vision previews

Compare how #E00A95 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.

#426098

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.

#7E8291

Tritanopia

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

#F10058

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.

#955595

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.

#A26C92

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#E01E84

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#767676

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.

#B55687

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 0.74540 G 0.00304 B 0.30054

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 0.80574 G 0.18167 B 0.57179

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.61361 G 0.02768 B 0.28660

CIE xyY

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

x 0.429 y 0.216 Y 18.237

CMY

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

C % 12.157 M % 96.078 Y % 41.569

Binary RGB

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

11100000 00001010 10010101