#590607

sRGB: 89 / 6 / 7

#590607 belongs to the red family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 89 red, 6 green and 7 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 359.3° lands in the red region. Its 87.4% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 18.6% on a scale from black (0%) to white (100%). Of black and white lettering, white has the clearer light-to-dark separation on this background (14.44:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 89, 6, 7
HSL: 359.28°, 87.37%, 18.63%
HSV / HSB: 359.28°, 93.26%, 34.90%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 93.26%, 92.13%, 65.10%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 4.223, 2.270, 0.417
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 16.844, 35.526, 23.081
WCAG relative luminance: 0.02269
24-bit decimal: 5834247

CMYK uses a profile-free approximation. Printed output depends on the press, ink and paper. Lab uses a D65 white point.

Text contrast

Contrast tells you how clearly lettering separates from #590607 in light and dark. The ratio compares relative luminance, a measure of light weighted for human vision. Identical colors give 1:1 and black against white gives 21:1. A ratio of 2.99:1 falls just below the 3:1 AA minimum for large text. Body text needs at least 4.5:1 because its finer strokes are harder to distinguish.

Black text: 1.45:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

White text: 14.44:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

AA and AAA are WCAG accessibility levels. AAA sets a higher bar: 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text. Large text begins at 18 pt regular or 14 pt bold. Ratings use the unrounded ratio.

Reference: WCAG text contrast guidance

Palettes & scales

Harmonies rotate the hue. Scales mix the starting color with white, black or middle gray in 20% steps in encoded sRGB.

Complementary

#065958 sits half a turn (180°) from #590607 on the HSL wheel. Keeping saturation and lightness steady while crossing to the opposite hue gives you a contrasting accent. Check text contrast separately before using the pair for lettering.

#590607 #065958

Analogous

#590631 and #592F06 sit 30° to either side of #590607. The three hues are neighbors on the wheel, so you can change the color of a border or highlight while keeping it close to the original.

#590631 #590607 #592F06

Triadic

#590607, #075906 and #060759 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#590607 #075906 #060759

Split complementary

Start at #590607 and look across the wheel. #06592F and #063059 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#590607 #06592F #063059

Square

Starting with #590607, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #305906, #065958, then #2E0659. Across the square, #590607 pairs with #065958, and #305906 with #2E0659.

#590607 #305906 #065958 #2E0659

Tetradic

#590607 and #065958 are opposites, as are #595806 and #060759. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#590607 #595806 #065958 #060759

Tints

Mixing #590607 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #7A3839, keeps 80% of the original. By #DECDCD, the mixture is 80% white.

#590607 #7A3839 #9B6A6A #BD9B9C #DECDCD #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #590607 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #470506, keeps 80% of the original. By #120101, the mixture is 80% black.

#590607 #470506 #350404 #240203 #120101 #000000

Tones

Mixing #590607 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #611E1F, keeps 80% of the original. By #786868, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#590607 #611E1F #693737 #704F50 #786868 #808080

Copy color codes

Hex, RGB and HSL are three ways to write this screen color. Paste any of them into a CSS color property.

Hex

#590607

RGB

rgb(89 6 7)

HSL

hsl(359.277 87.368% 18.627%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #590607;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#590607 uses 89 red, 6 green and 7 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 34.9%

Green 2.4%

Blue 2.7%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #590607 is 0.0% cyan, 93.3% magenta, 92.1% yellow and 65.1% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 93.3%

Yellow 92.1%

Black 65.1%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #550000. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #500 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #590607 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #660000, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #550000 Nearest web-safe: #660000

Gradient to complement

#590607 #4B1415 #3D2222 #303030 #223D3D #144B4B #065958

Color vision previews

Compare how #590607 appears in each simulation. When two chart lines or status indicators become hard to tell apart, a label, shape or line pattern gives readers another way to distinguish them. Individual perception varies.

Protanopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from long-wavelength cones, some reds and greens can look alike, and reds can appear darker.

#231E06

Deuteranopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from medium-wavelength cones, some greens can be difficult to distinguish from reds or browns.

#373003

Tritanopia

A blue–yellow color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from short-wavelength cones, blue can resemble green, and yellow can resemble pink.

#630008

Protanomaly (50%)

An altered long-wavelength cone response can make reds appear dimmer and harder to distinguish from greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#3D1B05

Deuteranomaly (50%)

An altered medium-wavelength cone response can reduce the visible difference between reds and greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#432604

Tritanomaly (50%)

An altered short-wavelength cone response can make blue harder to distinguish from green. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#5A0409

Grayscale (luminance)

This design check removes hue and preserves relative luminance so you can compare light and dark areas.

#2A2A2A

Partial grayscale (50% blend)

This design check mixes the original color halfway toward its grayscale equivalent in linear light. Use it to see how a design holds up as color fades.

#461D1D

Reference: National Eye Institute: Types of Color Vision Deficiency

Technical reference

CAM16 and CIECAM02 below assume D65 white, an average surround, background Y of 20 against white at 100, and adapting luminance of 4.07 cd/m².

Linear sRGB

These channels scale with emitted light. Use them for lighting calculations and physically meaningful blends.

R 0.09990 G 0.00182 B 0.00212

Display P3

P3 displays can reproduce a wider range of reds and greens. These coordinates reproduce this same sRGB swatch on a color-managed P3 display.

R 0.31803 G 0.06175 B 0.04817

Linear Display P3

These P3 channels are proportional to light, before display encoding.

R 0.08249 G 0.00508 B 0.00377

CIE xyY

The x and y coordinates locate chromaticity on a diagram. Y gives relative luminance on a scale where white is 100.

x 0.611 y 0.328 Y 2.270

CMY

Ideal cyan, magenta and yellow are the complements of the encoded red, green and blue channels.

C % 65.098 M % 97.647 Y % 97.255

Binary RGB

Each eight-bit group represents one channel. Together they store the 24-bit hex color.

01011001 00000110 00000111