Dark Pink #CB416B

Dark Pink (#CB416B) is a mid-tone, saturated pink with an OKLCH hue of 6°, lightness 0.58 and chroma 0.176. It sits on the warm side of the color wheel. In practice it behaves as an accent color: strong in focal moments, dominant over large fields.

Color values

HEX#CB416B
RGBrgb(203, 65, 107)
HSLhsl(342, 57%, 53%)
HSVhsv(342, 68%, 80%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 68%, 47%, 20%)
CIE Lablab(48.9 57.4 7)
OKLCHoklch(0.583 0.176 6)

How Dark Pink behaves under real light

Under warm 2700K interior light Dark Pink shifts subtly: leans toward orange; in north-facing or shaded light it is virtually unchanged. Overall drift across common illuminants is small (max ΔE ≈ 1), so it is a lighting-stable choice.

Test Dark Pink in the color lighting simulator — sweep it through daylight, warm 2700K light, 4000K LED, and shade alongside the rest of your palette.

Contrast & accessibility

Against white it measures 4.66:1 and against black 4.51:1, so white text is the stronger pairing. That pairing passes WCAG AA for body text.

Colors that go with Dark Pink

Tonal

One color explored: close hues with real lightness and chroma structure, so the palette is the anchor through value rather than a set of colors.

#ffbdca · #f87e9c · #cb416b · #a82652 · #780033 · #420018

Analogous

The anchor's neighbours on the wheel — everything shares an undertone, so the chord carries color without anything having to be muted to get along.

#e67e5e · #dc5f60 · #cb416b · #aa3777 · #87307b · #662977

Shifted

The mid-gap pairing — sage and mustard, terracotta and olive. A foil rotated 40–65° toward warm or cool: too far to be kin, too near to argue, carried by temperature and a deliberate value offset.

#ff9d4a · #c28b61 · #cb416b · #9f2e51 · #7b1037 · #421f00

Contrast

One deliberately opposed voice — a single restrained counterpoint across the wheel, or temperature against temperature where the anchor is too muted to carry a loud opposite.

#00e2d2 · #ba8f97 · #cb416b · #884253 · #632737 · #3a131e

Quiet Support

The anchor as the only color in the room. True neutrals or complement-warmed near-neutrals let it stay dominant.

#e0f8f4 · #aa8d93 · #cb416b · #556563 · #391f25 · #000201

Bright Accent

This color as a ground rather than a subject — its own restraint held across a narrow value band, carrying one saturated voice from the opposite temperature.

#e7f5f3 · #bccdca · #8da19e · #0c2825 · #000504 · #cb416b

Complementary

The opposite hue on the perceptual wheel, tempered to field strength — warm/cool tension without vibration.

#d8dab4 · #41c49e · #cb416b · #785884 · #2c3a29 · #200803

Split-complementary

The complement's two neighbours instead of the complement itself — strong contrast with a lower clash risk.

#cbfef7 · #38af70 · #cb416b · #006d81 · #003119 · #000305

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel; the anchor leads and the other two are held at supporting strength.

#e9f9d3 · #80a53a · #cb416b · #0065a4 · #002a49 · #010400

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs offset by 90° — the richest chord, kept usable by a strict lightness hierarchy.

#fcf2cb · #b09400 · #cb416b · #007168 · #1c106f · #000201

Tints, shades & muted variants

Tints

#D96080 · #E77C95 · #F397AB · #FFB2C2 · #FFD2DA

Shades

#AC2F57 · #8E1D44 · #710831 · #520020 · #340011

Muted

#BC536E · #AD6072 · #9C6B75

Using Dark Pink

Its chroma is high enough to carry accents, calls to action, and focal moments; large fields of it will dominate a composition. In palettes it pairs most predictably with its tonal ramp and analogous neighbors; reserve the complementary hue for small, deliberate contrast.

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