#88104F

sRGB: 136 / 16 / 79

Golden embers illuminate hidden paths
Fragile reflections fade beyond remembrance
Quiet wishes echo beyond eternity

#88104F belongs to the rose family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 136 red, 16 green and 79 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 328.5° lands in the rose region. Its 78.9% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 29.8% 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 (9.40:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 136, 16, 79
HSL: 328.50°, 78.95%, 29.80%
HSV / HSB: 328.50°, 88.24%, 53.33%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 88.24%, 41.91%, 46.67%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 11.750, 6.170, 7.970
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 29.838, 51.499, -4.624
WCAG relative luminance: 0.06169
24-bit decimal: 8917071

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 #88104F 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: 2.23:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

White text: 9.40:1

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

#108849 sits half a turn (180°) from #88104F 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.

#88104F #108849

Analogous

#851088 and #881013 sit 30° to either side of #88104F. 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.

#851088 #88104F #881013

Triadic

#88104F, #4F8810 and #104F88 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#88104F #4F8810 #104F88

Split complementary

Start at #88104F and look across the wheel. #138810 and #108885 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#88104F #138810 #108885

Square

Starting with #88104F, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #888510, #108849, then #101388. Across the square, #88104F pairs with #108849, and #888510 with #101388.

#88104F #888510 #108849 #101388

Tetradic

#88104F and #108849 are opposites, as are #884910 and #104F88. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#88104F #884910 #108849 #104F88

Tints

Mixing #88104F with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A04072, keeps 80% of the original. By #E7CFDC, the mixture is 80% white.

#88104F #A04072 #B87095 #CF9FB9 #E7CFDC #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #88104F with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #6D0D3F, keeps 80% of the original. By #1B0310, the mixture is 80% black.

#88104F #6D0D3F #520A2F #360620 #1B0310 #000000

Tones

Mixing #88104F with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #862659, keeps 80% of the original. By #826A76, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#88104F #862659 #853D63 #83536C #826A76 #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

#88104F

RGB

rgb(136 16 79)

HSL

hsl(328.500 78.947% 29.804%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #88104F;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#88104F uses 136 red, 16 green and 79 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 53.3%

Green 6.3%

Blue 31.0%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #88104F is 0.0% cyan, 88.2% magenta, 41.9% yellow and 46.7% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 88.2%

Yellow 41.9%

Black 46.7%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #881155. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #815 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #88104F when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #990066, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #881155 Nearest web-safe: #990066

Gradient to complement

#88104F #74244E #60384D #4C4C4C #38604B #24744A #108849

Color vision previews

Compare how #88104F 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.

#2E3850

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.

#4E4E4C

Tritanopia

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

#94002F

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.

#5B324F

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.

#63404D

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#881446

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#464646

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.

#6D334B

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 0.24620 G 0.00518 B 0.07819

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 0.48834 G 0.11874 B 0.30507

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.20341 G 0.01318 B 0.07577

CIE xyY

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

x 0.454 y 0.238 Y 6.170

CMY

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

C % 46.667 M % 93.725 Y % 69.020

Binary RGB

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

10001000 00010000 01001111