Dark Hot Pink #D90166

About this color

#D90166 is a medium-dark, vivid red. In OKLCH its lightness is 57%, its chroma 0.229 and its hue 5°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Dark Hot Pink. White text reads best on it, at 5.06:1.

Colors that go with Dark Hot Pink

Matches found by rotating Dark Hot Pink around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Dark Hot Pink

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Dark Hot Pink, closest first.

• Laser Grid
• Cherry Compote
• Plum and Rhubarb
• Pomegranate and Blackcurrant
• Pomegranate Orchard
• Lemon Rind

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Dark Hot Pink, with their ΔE distance.

• Cerise #DE0C62 ΔE 0.015
• Lipstick #D5174E ΔE 0.038
• Ruby #CA0147 ΔE 0.052
• Dark Pink #CB416B ΔE 0.054
• Crimson #DC143C ΔE 0.061
• Medium Violet Red #C71585 ΔE 0.061
• Deep Rose #C74767 ΔE 0.067
• Cherry #CF0234 ΔE 0.069

More about Dark Hot Pink

• Shades of pink
• What pink means

How to make Dark Hot Pink

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 red

Recipe result: #D7262E, a difference of ΔE 0.081 from Dark Hot Pink. Dark Hot Pink 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 Dark Hot Pink 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 Dark Hot Pink

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 600.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FEF2F4

   oklch(97.1% 0.013 5.8)

2. Step 100

   100

   #FDE2E7

   oklch(93.6% 0.03 5)

3. Step 200

   200

   #FBCAD4

   oklch(88.4% 0.057 4.6)

4. Step 300

   300

   #F9A4B8

   oklch(80.8% 0.103 4.3)

5. Step 400

   400

   #F26F93

   oklch(70.8% 0.164 5)

6. Step 500

   500

   #E93D79

   oklch(63.1% 0.211 4.7)

7. Step 600

   600 (this color)

   #D90166

   oklch(57% 0.229 4.7)

8. Step 700

   700

   #B20052

   oklch(49.1% 0.197 4.8)

9. Step 800

   800

   #930043

   oklch(42.7% 0.172 4.5)

10. Step 900

    900

    #771138

    oklch(37.6% 0.137 4.7)

11. Step 950

    950

    #460E21

    oklch(27% 0.086 4.5)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Dark Hot Pink 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.