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Shades of pink

varieties of the color pink

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ19847189
Source-derived summary

Pink colors are usually light or desaturated shades of reds, roses, and magentas which are created on computer and television screens using the RGB color model and in printing with the CMYK color model. As such, it is an arbitrary classification of color.

Below is a list of some of the common pink colors.

Web colors

Pink

Displayed here is the web color pink.

Light pink

Displayed here is the web color light pink. The name of the web color is written as "lightpink" (no space) in HTML for computer display.

Although this color is called "light pink", as can be ascertained by inspecting its hex code, it is actually a slightly deeper, not a lighter, tint of pink than the color pink itself. A more accurate name for it in terms of traditional color nomenclature would therefore be medium light pink.

Hot pink

Displayed here is the web color hot pink. The name of the web color is written as "hotpink" (no space) in HTML for computer display.

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“Shades of pink” enters the record as varieties of the color pink. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Shades, pink and varieties can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 169-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Shades, pink and varieties.
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This entry incorporates text from Shades of pink” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.