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#EE11BB

#EE11BB

Pinks · #e1b is the three-digit shorthand for #EE11BB. In CSS the two notations mean the same color.

HEX#EE11BB
RGB238, 17, 187
HSL314°, 87%, 50%
CMYK0%, 93%, 21%, 7%
Relative luminance0.22

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Text contrast

Aa

On white

3.87:1 Below AA

Aa

On black

5.43:1 Passes AA

Colours that work with it

Complement

#11EE44

Analogous

#B311EE#EE114C

Triadic

#BBEE11#11BBEE

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 #e1b and #EE11BB the same color?

Yes. CSS doubles each digit of a three-digit hex, so #e1b expands to #EE11BB. Only 4,096 colors can be written in three digits, and this is one of them.

Q. What text color works on #EE11BB?

Black text. Contrast against white is 3.87:1 and against black 5.43:1, so pick the larger one — WCAG asks for 4.5:1 at body size.

Q. Which named color is closest to #EE11BB?

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

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