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#DD00CC

#DD00CC

Pinks · #d0c is the three-digit shorthand for #DD00CC. In CSS the two notations mean the same color.

HEX#DD00CC
RGB221, 0, 204
HSL305°, 100%, 43%
CMYK0%, 100%, 8%, 13%
Relative luminance0.2

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Text contrast

Aa

On white

4.25:1 Below AA

Aa

On black

4.95:1 Passes AA

Colours that work with it

Complement

#00DB12

Analogous

#8000DB#DB005B

Triadic

#C9DB00#00C9DB

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 #d0c and #DD00CC the same color?

Yes. CSS doubles each digit of a three-digit hex, so #d0c expands to #DD00CC. Only 4,096 colors can be written in three digits, and this is one of them.

Q. What text color works on #DD00CC?

Black text. Contrast against white is 4.25:1 and against black 4.95:1, so pick the larger one — WCAG asks for 4.5:1 at body size.

Q. Which named color is closest to #DD00CC?

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

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