#EA2597

sRGB: 234 / 37 / 151

Infinite horizons flourish beyond boundaries
Withered branches wander across quiet meadows
Rising tides embrace the coming dawn

#EA2597 belongs to the rose family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 234 red, 37 green and 151 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 325.3° lands in the rose region. Its 82.4% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 53.1% 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 (5.21:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 234, 37, 151
HSL: 325.28°, 82.43%, 53.14%
HSV / HSB: 325.28°, 84.19%, 91.76%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 84.19%, 35.47%, 8.24%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 40.178, 21.053, 31.227
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 53.007, 77.805, -12.905
WCAG relative luminance: 0.21050
24-bit decimal: 15345047

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 #EA2597 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: 5.21:1

Normal text: AA
Large text: AAA

White text: 4.03:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: AA

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

#25EA78 sits half a turn (180°) from #EA2597 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.

#EA2597 #25EA78

Analogous

#DA25EA and #EA2535 sit 30° to either side of #EA2597. 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.

#DA25EA #EA2597 #EA2535

Triadic

#EA2597, #97EA25 and #2597EA are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#EA2597 #97EA25 #2597EA

Split complementary

Start at #EA2597 and look across the wheel. #35EA25 and #25EADA sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#EA2597 #35EA25 #25EADA

Square

Starting with #EA2597, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #EADA25, #25EA78, then #2535EA. Across the square, #EA2597 pairs with #25EA78, and #EADA25 with #2535EA.

#EA2597 #EADA25 #25EA78 #2535EA

Tetradic

#EA2597 and #25EA78 are opposites, as are #EA7825 and #2597EA. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#EA2597 #EA7825 #25EA78 #2597EA

Tints

Mixing #EA2597 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #EE51AC, keeps 80% of the original. By #FBD3EA, the mixture is 80% white.

#EA2597 #EE51AC #F27CC1 #F7A8D5 #FBD3EA #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #EA2597 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BB1E79, keeps 80% of the original. By #2F071E, the mixture is 80% black.

#EA2597 #BB1E79 #8C165B #5E0F3C #2F071E #000000

Tones

Mixing #EA2597 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #D53792, keeps 80% of the original. By #956E85, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#EA2597 #D53792 #C0498E #AA5C89 #956E85 #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

#EA2597

RGB

rgb(234 37 151)

HSL

hsl(325.279 82.427% 53.137%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #EA2597;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#EA2597 uses 234 red, 37 green and 151 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 91.8%

Green 14.5%

Blue 59.2%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #EA2597 is 0.0% cyan, 84.2% magenta, 35.5% yellow and 8.2% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 84.2%

Yellow 35.5%

Black 8.2%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #EE2299. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #E29 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #EA2597 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #FF3399, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #EE2299 Nearest web-safe: #FF3399

Gradient to complement

#EA2597 #C94692 #A8678D #888888 #67A882 #46C97D #25EA78

Color vision previews

Compare how #EA2597 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.

#51689A

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.

#888B93

Tritanopia

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

#FC005E

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.

#9F5E97

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.

#AC7494

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#EA2E87

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#7F7F7F

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.

#BE5F8B

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 0.82279 G 0.01850 B 0.30947

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 0.84339 G 0.23533 B 0.58132

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.67999 G 0.04520 B 0.29717

CIE xyY

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

x 0.435 y 0.228 Y 21.053

CMY

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

C % 8.235 M % 85.490 Y % 40.784

Binary RGB

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

11101010 00100101 10010111