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#DD66CC

#DD66CC

Pinks · #d6c is the three-digit shorthand for #DD66CC. In CSS the two notations mean the same color.

HEX#DD66CC
RGB221, 102, 204
HSL309°, 64%, 63%
CMYK0%, 54%, 8%, 13%
Relative luminance0.29

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Text contrast

Aa

On white

3.07:1 Below AA

Aa

On black

6.85:1 Passes AA

Colours that work with it

Complement

#64DD76

Analogous

#B364DD#DD648F

Triadic

#CBDD64#64CBDD

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 #d6c and #DD66CC the same color?

Yes. CSS doubles each digit of a three-digit hex, so #d6c expands to #DD66CC. Only 4,096 colors can be written in three digits, and this is one of them.

Q. What text color works on #DD66CC?

Black text. Contrast against white is 3.07:1 and against black 6.85:1, so pick the larger one — WCAG asks for 4.5:1 at body size.

Q. Which named color is closest to #DD66CC?

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

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