Vice City #EE00DD

Vice City (#EE00DD) is a mid-tone, vivid magenta with an OKLCH hue of 332°, lightness 0.66 and chroma 0.296. It sits on the transitional side of the color wheel. In practice it behaves as an accent color: strong in focal moments, dominant over large fields.

Color values

HEX#EE00DD
RGBrgb(238, 0, 221)
HSLhsl(304, 100%, 47%)
HSVhsv(304, 100%, 93%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 100%, 7%, 7%)
CIE Lablab(55.5 90.9 -49.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.656 0.296 332)

How Vice City behaves under real light

Under warm 2700K interior light Vice City shifts subtly: leans toward pink; in north-facing or shaded light it is virtually unchanged. Overall drift across common illuminants is small (max ΔE ≈ 2), so it is a lighting-stable choice.

Test Vice City 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 3.7:1 and against black 5.68:1, so black text is the stronger pairing. That pairing passes WCAG AA for body text.

Colors that go with Vice City

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.

#ffdef9 · #ff97f0 · #ee00dd · #c300b5 · #8b0081 · #580051

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.

#ff8eab · #ff5cba · #ee00dd · #bb21e8 · #892ce5 · #5831d5

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.

#ff8881 · #ee00dd · #bf00b1 · #a6001a · #680060 · #4a0005

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.

#00ea7b · #ee00dd · #8f5c87 · #812278 · #5b0054 · #32002d

Quiet Support

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

#defae5 · #ee00dd · #8c6a86 · #3a4c3f · #2f0d2b · #000701

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.

#eaf5ed · #c2cfc5 · #96a499 · #1e3023 · #000e04 · #ee00dd

Complementary

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

#f0f1cb · #43f548 · #ee00dd · #8e65b0 · #3b4332 · #100624

Split-complementary

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

#c7f8f5 · #ccd984 · #ee00dd · #558b79 · #384436 · #1f050b

Triadic

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

#fff2c7 · #ee00dd · #8f7300 · #00515d · #002128 · #0a0500

Tetradic

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

#ffeee1 · #ee00dd · #ab6200 · #005629 · #001f35 · #000701

Tints, shades & muted variants

Tints

#F74CE6 · #FF71EE · #FF97F0 · #FFB7F3 · #FFD4F7

Shades

#C500B7 · #9D0091 · #77006E · #53004D · #32002E

Muted

#DD48CE · #CB64BE · #B878AE

Using Vice City

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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