Piercing Pink Color

#dd00ee

Piercing Pink is vivid, cool-toned shade of cool magenta. It is better contrasting with white. This color combines beautifully with warm green, cool cyan or warm yellow

Inverse Color #2f1
Complementary Color #10ee00
Color Shade: cool magenta (295.71° hue)
Color Temperature: cool
Lightness: 46.67% (better contrasting with white)
Piercing Pink Color Sample
Piercing Pink Color Sample

Better Alternatives To #dd00ee

If you're looking for a similar cool magenta shade, there are some better alternatives to Piercing Pink Color. The Barbara color for instance is a lighter and a bit more faded option, however this color has a violet bias. Consider a lighter and more soft alternative called Rainbow's Inner Rim (#ff09ff) for more calm effect. Try Fresh Neon Pink as it also a bit more faded and calm.

Complementary Palette

#10ee00 is the best complementary color to Piercing Pink. Warm green shades generally complement the cool magenta hues best as they are found on the opposite end of the color wheel. The most popular #d0e complementary color is Green, as it offers maximum contrast and grab the viewer's attention.

Analogous Palette

The analogous palette of warm blue, cool magenta, and warm magenta colors offers a soft combination of similar cool shades. The analogous colors of White are #6500ee and #e08. Thus found on the left and right of #d0e on the color wheel with a 30° gap. Consider matching Electric Violet and White colors as they work well with Piercing Pink.

Split-complementary Palette

The split-complementary Piercing Pink palette consists of #0e6 and #8e0 colors. They can be found 30° apart on either side of the complementary color (#10ee00). Try White and White colors in combination with #d0e, as they are not as contrasting as a complementary color, hence, giving more hue variety to make your design stand out.

Triadic Palette

The triadic palette of #d0e offers a combination of warm cyan and warm yellow shades and equally high contrast between the three of them. Find triadic colors at the 120° distance from the Piercing Pink. Thus White and White giving maximum hue separation to use all three together.

Square Palette

The square color palette of Piercing Pink contains three additional colors. Thus, complementary Green, White, and White split by 90° on the color wheel. #d0e square combo is a palette of cool magenta, warm red, warm green and cool cyan shades that work together well.

Tetradic Palette

The tetradic palette is a bit more complex than the square and has more of a rectangle shape. Piercing Pink tetradic combo consists of warm green complementary color (#10ee00) and two others. The White is positioned 120° clockwise from the primary color and Blue – 120° from the complementary Green. This palette is not recommended to use as-is. Try to tweak the saturation and brightness of #ed0 and #0010ee.

Conversion Table

In a RGB color space, hex #dd00ee is made of 48% red, 0% green and 52% blue. In a HSL mode Piercing Pink has a hue angle of 295.71°, a saturation of 100% and a lightness of 46.67%. In a CMYK space (used in printing only), hex #dd00ee is made of 6.66% cyan, 93.33% magenta, 0% yellow and 6.67% black ink.

HEX #dd00ee
RGB Decimal rgb(221,0,238)
RGB Percentage 48%, 0%, 52%
CMYK 6.66, 93.33, 0, 6.67
HSL hsl(295.71,100%,46.67%)
HSV (or HSB) hsv(295.71,100%,93.33%)
CIE-LAB lab(53.5411,90.6762,-62.5526)
XYZ xyz(45.2514,21.5452,82.6625)
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