#AE1E62a warm vivid magenta

At a glance#AE1E62, oklch(50.1% 0.184 358.5), is a warm vivid magenta, close to Plastic Lips #AA2266 or Murderous Magenta #B3205F. Pair it with a cool brilliant blue #509BD1 as an accent, a warm medium orange #D37B4B for harmony, and a warm pale purple #9F8A90 as a neutral. Try it as a text color on light backgrounds, or a brand or accent color, and it holds AA contrast against white. A coated press has to move it a little, by less than a print run varies anyway.
Color codes

#AE1E62 in RGB, HSL, OKLCH & more

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Color family

What kind of magenta is #AE1E62?

Every color has a place in the standard vocabulary. This is #AE1E62's, measured rather than asserted.

#AE1E62's Munsell numbers: hue 7.3RP, value 3.9 (how light), chroma 13.2 (how vivid). That places it in ISCC-NBS block vivid purplish red, one of 267 named ranges the standard sorts every color into. Chroma 13.2 is moderate. Clearly colored, but not so saturated it fights the colors around it.

There's still some room before it hits the edge of what your screen can show for this hue. It could go a little more saturated and stay in gamut.

Munsell coordinates and block from the ISCC-NBS system, computed by Rhapsody's own renotation inversion.

Tints & shades

Shades of #AE1E62, lighter and darker

For hover states, washed backgrounds, and dark surfaces that still read as #AE1E62. 13 steps, spaced evenly by eye, with the color itself sitting at its natural depth, magenta-700.

Tints (light surfaces; dark text passes on every one)

Midtones (the color at full strength, for brand & accent work)

Shades (dark surfaces; light text passes on every one)

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Accessibility

Is #AE1E62 accessible? Contrast with white & black

Strong contrast makes your work readable by everyone, and meets the WCAG standard accessibility law points at. AA is the floor; AAA is the tier worth aiming for in body text. White text on #AE1E62 passes AA. For AAA, use its scale. Every strip below is one surface, and the marks are the steps that reach AAA on it.

Rows are text, columns are background · 62 of 210 pairings reach WCAG 2.2 AAA, shown here.

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Print

#AE1E62 in CMYK: one value for files, one per press

Presses move this color a little, by less than a print run varies anyway, so a printer would call it a match. The pairs below show where each standard lands.

In CMYK, #AE1E62 is . That is the value design tools and file formats use when no press is involved.

On press (what each standard prints)

CGATS21 CRPC1 (coldset news) shifts on press
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 15.7, 6.3× the 2.5 a run varies by

GRACoL 2013 Uncoated (CRPC3) shifts on press
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 11.5, 4.6× the 2.5 a run varies by

GRACoL 2013 (CRPC6) within tolerance
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 1.2, under the 2.5 a press run varies by

PSO Coated v3 (FOGRA51) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

Coated FOGRA39 prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

Japan Color 2011 Coated prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

APTEC Flexo Coated prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

CGATS21 CRPC7 (extended gamut) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

Press values computed through the ICC characterization data each standard proofs against. Each CMYK above is the closest that standard can get, near enough that a press run's own variation is the larger difference.

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The strip shows this page's tints and shades on screen, then through a standard GRACoL 2013 conversion.

The Magentas

Colors similar to #AE1E62

This color sits in The Magentas, close to the border with The Fuchsias. Explore The Magentas

The row runs cooler on the left, warmer on the right.

The wheel's warm pole sits near Pumpkin, its cool pole near Goluboy.

Named colors near this one: Plastic Lips #AA2266 (via color-name-list) · Murderous Magenta #B3205F (via color-name-list) · Vivacious #A7295F (via color-name-list) · Berry 700 #AE005E · Plum Paradise #AA1166 (via color-name-list)

Pairings

Colors that go with #AE1E62

The complementary color, straight across the wheel, is a cool bright turquoise #74E0ED. Rhapsody's pick is the split complement, just to one side of it, a livelier pair.

The accent is for the moments that need attention, the harmony for the ones that need calm; the neutral carries the text and surfaces in between.

Downloads

Take #AE1E62 with you

The work on this page doesn't stay here. Save a card and the color arrives in your file, your deck or your board already decided.

#AE1E62 color codes: hex #AE1E62, RGB, HSL, CMYK, and OKLCH, from Rhapsody
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The full tonal scale of #AE1E62, 13 steps from light to dark with every hex, from Rhapsody
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#AE1E62 paired with a cool brilliant blue #509BD1, a warm medium orange #D37B4B, a warm pale purple #9F8A90: hex values and roles, from Rhapsody
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