Pink (#FFC0CB) is a very light, highly saturated red hue. The CSS keyword pink is a soft pastel, widely used for baby showers, bakeries and beauty brands.
In RGB it is made of 255 red, 192 green and 203 blue. Its HSL hue angle is 350° with 100% saturation and 88% lightness, while its perceptual OKLCH lightness is 87% with a chroma of 0.074. For print, a starting CMYK mix is 0% cyan, 25% magenta, 20% yellow and 0% black.
As a text color on white, Pink has a contrast ratio of 1.54:1, which fails WCAG AA even for large text. On black it reaches 13.65:1 and passes AA for normal text. If you use Pink as a background, put black (or very dark) text on it. The APCA lightness contrast is Lc 79 for black text and Lc -28 for white text.
Its perceptual complement is #9BE4DC, close to powder blue. Colors that look most similar are millennial pink, apricot, silver. It looks fairly similar to people with red-green color blindness (ΔE 7), so its meaning mostly survives.