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#553355

#553355

Pinks · #535 is the three-digit shorthand for #553355. In CSS the two notations mean the same color.

HEX#553355
RGB85, 51, 85
HSL300°, 25%, 27%
CMYK0%, 40%, 0%, 67%
Relative luminance0.05

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Text contrast

Aa

On white

10.55:1 Passes AA

Aa

On black

1.99:1 Below AA

Colours that work with it

Complement

#345634

Analogous

#453456#563445

Triadic

#565634#345656

Shade scale

50100200300400500600700800

Seen with colour blindness

ProtanopiaDeuteranopiaTritanopia

How to read this

  • A hex code writes red, green and blue as two hexadecimal digits each. #ff0000 is red at full strength and the others at zero.
  • HSL states hue (0–360°), saturation and lightness. Nudging a colour brighter means changing one number, which is why it is easier to work with by hand.
  • Text contrast follows WCAG. Body-size text needs 4.5:1 or better, and 21:1 between white and black is the maximum possible.
  • The colour-blindness row computes how this colour appears under three types of colour vision deficiency — the reason never to encode information in colour alone.

Frequently asked questions

Q. Are #535 and #553355 the same color?

Yes. CSS doubles each digit of a three-digit hex, so #535 expands to #553355. Only 4,096 colors can be written in three digits, and this is one of them.

Q. What text color works on #553355?

White text. Contrast against white is 10.55:1 and against black 1.99:1, so pick the larger one — WCAG asks for 4.5:1 at body size.

Q. Which named color is closest to #553355?

Eggplant. It is not an exact match, so where color matters use the hex code itself rather than the name.

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