Magenta color
Magenta is a purple-red between pink and violet, one of the three printing inks. No single wavelength of light makes it: the eye mixes it from red and blue. Its hex code is #CC2E8A.
- Hex
- #CC2E8A
- RGB
- 204, 46, 138
- OKLCH
- 57.8% 0.209 350.3
- Value
- 5 of 10
- Family
- Red-violet
Is magenta warm or cool?
Both, a little: red-violet sits right at the line between the warm half of the color wheel and the cool half, so it can read as either, depending on what is beside it. On its own, magenta leans warm. It is a mid-tone color, value 5 of 10, and its opposite is moss. More in warm and cool colors.
Magenta tints, tones and shades
A tint adds white, a tone adds gray of the same lightness, and a shade adds black. Each row starts with magenta itself.
The opposite of magenta
Opposite magenta on the color wheel sits moss, #597315. Side by side, each makes the other look stronger; mixed, they turn each other gray.
Colors that go with magenta
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