#952000

sRGB: 149 / 32 / 0

Restless currents dance upon still waters
Withered branches fade beyond remembrance
Lost whispers vanish without farewell

#952000 belongs to the red family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 149 red, 32 green and 0 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 12.9° lands in the red region. Its 100.0% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 29.2% 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 (8.45:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 149, 32, 0
HSL: 12.89°, 100.00%, 29.22%
HSV / HSB: 12.89°, 100.00%, 58.43%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 78.52%, 100.00%, 41.57%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 12.911, 7.424, 0.753
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 32.753, 46.884, 45.700
WCAG relative luminance: 0.07423
24-bit decimal: 9773056

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 #952000 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: 2.48:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

White text: 8.45:1

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

#007595 sits half a turn (180°) from #952000 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.

#952000 #007595

Analogous

#95002A and #956B00 sit 30° to either side of #952000. 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.

#95002A #952000 #956B00

Triadic

#952000, #009520 and #200095 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#952000 #009520 #200095

Split complementary

Start at #952000 and look across the wheel. #00956B and #002A95 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#952000 #00956B #002A95

Square

Starting with #952000, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #2A9500, #007595, then #6B0095. Across the square, #952000 pairs with #007595, and #2A9500 with #6B0095.

#952000 #2A9500 #007595 #6B0095

Tetradic

#952000 and #007595 are opposites, as are #759500 and #200095. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#952000 #759500 #007595 #200095

Tints

Mixing #952000 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #AA4D33, keeps 80% of the original. By #EAD2CC, the mixture is 80% white.

#952000 #AA4D33 #BF7966 #D5A699 #EAD2CC #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #952000 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #771A00, keeps 80% of the original. By #1E0600, the mixture is 80% black.

#952000 #771A00 #591300 #3C0D00 #1E0600 #000000

Tones

Mixing #952000 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #91331A, keeps 80% of the original. By #846D66, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#952000 #91331A #8D4633 #885A4D #846D66 #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

#952000

RGB

rgb(149 32 0)

HSL

hsl(12.886 100.000% 29.216%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #952000;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#952000 uses 149 red, 32 green and 0 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 58.4%

Green 12.5%

Blue 0.0%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #952000 is 0.0% cyan, 78.5% magenta, 100.0% yellow and 41.6% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 78.5%

Yellow 100.0%

Black 41.6%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #992200. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #920 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #952000 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #993300, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #992200 Nearest web-safe: #993300

Gradient to complement

#952000 #7C2E19 #633C32 #4B4B4B #325963 #19677C #007595

Color vision previews

Compare how #952000 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.

#463C00

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.

#625600

Tritanopia

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

#A5001C

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.

#6B3800

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.

#744900

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#961D11

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#4D4D4D

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.

#783B36

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 0.30054 G 0.01444 B 0.00000

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 0.53685 G 0.16779 B 0.07171

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.24975 G 0.02394 B 0.00618

CIE xyY

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

x 0.612 y 0.352 Y 7.424

CMY

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

C % 41.569 M % 87.451 Y % 100.000

Binary RGB

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

10010101 00100000 00000000