#970331

sRGB: 151 / 3 / 49

Restless currents awaken with sunrise
Silent memories flicker through endless evenings
Fleeting moments surrender to silence

#970331 belongs to the rose family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 151 red, 3 green and 49 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 341.4° lands in the rose region. Its 96.1% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 30.2% 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 (8.85:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 151, 3, 49
HSL: 341.35°, 96.10%, 30.20%
HSV / HSB: 341.35°, 98.01%, 59.22%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 98.01%, 67.55%, 40.78%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 13.349, 6.867, 3.528
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 31.503, 55.148, 18.143
WCAG relative luminance: 0.06866
24-bit decimal: 9896753

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 #970331 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: 2.37:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

White text: 8.85:1

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

#039769 sits half a turn (180°) from #970331 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.

#970331 #039769

Analogous

#97037B and #971F03 sit 30° to either side of #970331. 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.

#97037B #970331 #971F03

Triadic

#970331, #319703 and #033197 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#970331 #319703 #033197

Split complementary

Start at #970331 and look across the wheel. #03971F and #037B97 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#970331 #03971F #037B97

Square

Starting with #970331, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #7B9703, #039769, then #1F0397. Across the square, #970331 pairs with #039769, and #7B9703 with #1F0397.

#970331 #7B9703 #039769 #1F0397

Tetradic

#970331 and #039769 are opposites, as are #976903 and #033197. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#970331 #976903 #039769 #033197

Tints

Mixing #970331 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #AC355A, keeps 80% of the original. By #EACDD6, the mixture is 80% white.

#970331 #AC355A #C16883 #D59AAD #EACDD6 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #970331 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #790227, keeps 80% of the original. By #1E010A, the mixture is 80% black.

#970331 #790227 #5B021D #3C0114 #1E010A #000000

Tones

Mixing #970331 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #921C41, keeps 80% of the original. By #856770, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#970331 #921C41 #8E3551 #894E60 #856770 #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

#970331

RGB

rgb(151 3 49)

HSL

hsl(341.351 96.104% 30.196%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #970331;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#970331 uses 151 red, 3 green and 49 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 59.2%

Green 1.2%

Blue 19.2%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #970331 is 0.0% cyan, 98.0% magenta, 67.5% yellow and 40.8% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 98.0%

Yellow 67.5%

Black 40.8%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #990033. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #903 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #970331 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #990033, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #990033 Nearest web-safe: #990033

Gradient to complement

#970331 #7E1C3A #663444 #4D4D4D #346656 #1C7E60 #039769

Color vision previews

Compare how #970331 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.

#3A3831

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.

#5C542D

Tritanopia

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

#A6001C

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.

#683230

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.

#71442E

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#98012C

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#4A4A4A

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.

#78343F

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 0.30947 G 0.00091 B 0.03071

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 0.54170 G 0.10706 B 0.20068

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.25469 G 0.01115 B 0.03332

CIE xyY

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

x 0.562 y 0.289 Y 6.867

CMY

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

C % 40.784 M % 98.824 Y % 80.784

Binary RGB

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

10010111 00000011 00110001