Bright Magenta #FF08E8

About this color

#FF08E8 is a medium-light, vivid purple. In OKLCH its lightness is 69%, its chroma 0.307 and its hue 333°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Bright Magenta. Black text reads best on it, at 6.45:1.

Colors that go with Bright Magenta

Matches found by rotating Bright Magenta around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Bright Magenta

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Bright Magenta, closest first.

• Plasma Glow
• Ultraviolet Afterhours
• Laser and Strobe
• Electric Overdrive
• Laser Overdrive

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Bright Magenta, with their ΔE distance.

• Pink Purple #EF1DE7 ΔE 0.030
• Magenta #FF00FF ΔE 0.034
• Hot Magenta #F504C9 ΔE 0.048
• Purple Pink #D725DE ΔE 0.076
• Light Magenta #FA5FF7 ΔE 0.078
• Violet Pink #FB5FFC ΔE 0.079
• Bright Pink #FE01B1 ΔE 0.082
• Heliotrope #D94FF5 ΔE 0.084

More about Bright Magenta

• Shades of pink
• What pink means

How to make Bright Magenta

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 1 part purple
• 1 part white

Recipe result: #B876D0, a difference of ΔE 0.175 from Bright Magenta. Bright Magenta is more vivid than these paints can mix, so start from a ready-made pink paint and adjust it.

What colors make pink? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Bright Magenta in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Bright Magenta

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 400.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FFF0FC

   oklch(97% 0.022 332.3)

2. Step 100

   100

   #FFDEF8

   oklch(93.5% 0.05 333.2)

3. Step 200

   200

   #FFC3F3

   oklch(88.5% 0.092 333.5)

4. Step 300

   300

   #FF95ED

   oklch(80.9% 0.166 333.5)

5. Step 400

   400 (this color)

   #FF08E8

   oklch(69% 0.307 333.5)

6. Step 500

   500

   #E300CE

   oklch(63.1% 0.282 333.6)

7. Step 600

   600

   #C000AE

   oklch(55.6% 0.249 333.6)

8. Step 700

   700

   #A20093

   oklch(49.1% 0.22 333.5)

9. Step 800

   800

   #860079

   oklch(42.7% 0.191 333.6)

10. Step 900

    900

    #710066

    oklch(37.8% 0.169 333.6)

11. Step 950

    950

    #45003E

    oklch(26.9% 0.121 333.4)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Bright Magenta with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.