#A01421

sRGB: 160 / 20 / 33

Radiant blossoms linger without sound
Fragile reflections breathe beneath silver clouds
Distant echoes surrender to silence

#A01421 belongs to the red family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 160 red, 20 green and 33 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 354.4° lands in the red region. Its 77.8% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 35.3% 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 (8.03:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 160, 20, 33
HSL: 354.43°, 77.78%, 35.29%
HSV / HSB: 354.43°, 87.50%, 62.75%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 87.50%, 79.38%, 37.25%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 15.022, 8.085, 2.209
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 34.159, 54.128, 31.942
WCAG relative luminance: 0.08084
24-bit decimal: 10490913

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 #A01421 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: 2.62:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

White text: 8.03:1

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

#14A093 sits half a turn (180°) from #A01421 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.

#A01421 #14A093

Analogous

#A01467 and #A04D14 sit 30° to either side of #A01421. 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.

#A01467 #A01421 #A04D14

Triadic

#A01421, #21A014 and #1421A0 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#A01421 #21A014 #1421A0

Split complementary

Start at #A01421 and look across the wheel. #14A04D and #1467A0 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#A01421 #14A04D #1467A0

Square

Starting with #A01421, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #67A014, #14A093, then #4D14A0. Across the square, #A01421 pairs with #14A093, and #67A014 with #4D14A0.

#A01421 #67A014 #14A093 #4D14A0

Tetradic

#A01421 and #14A093 are opposites, as are #A09314 and #1421A0. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#A01421 #A09314 #14A093 #1421A0

Tints

Mixing #A01421 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B3434D, keeps 80% of the original. By #ECD0D3, the mixture is 80% white.

#A01421 #B3434D #C6727A #D9A1A6 #ECD0D3 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #A01421 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #80101A, keeps 80% of the original. By #200407, the mixture is 80% black.

#A01421 #80101A #600C14 #40080D #200407 #000000

Tones

Mixing #A01421 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #9A2A34, keeps 80% of the original. By #866A6D, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#A01421 #9A2A34 #933F47 #8D555A #866A6D #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

#A01421

RGB

rgb(160 20 33)

HSL

hsl(354.429 77.778% 35.294%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #A01421;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#A01421 uses 160 red, 20 green and 33 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 62.7%

Green 7.8%

Blue 12.9%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #A01421 is 0.0% cyan, 87.5% magenta, 79.4% yellow and 37.3% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 87.5%

Yellow 79.4%

Black 37.3%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #991122. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #912 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #A01421 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #990033, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #991122 Nearest web-safe: #990033

Gradient to complement

#A01421 #892B34 #714347 #5A5A5A #43716D #2B8980 #14A093

Color vision previews

Compare how #A01421 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.

#443D20

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.

#665B1B

Tritanopia

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

#B1001B

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.

#71381E

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.

#7A4B1C

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#A11021

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#505050

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.

#803B3E

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 0.35153 G 0.00700 B 0.01521

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 0.57520 G 0.14479 B 0.15324

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.29036 G 0.01843 B 0.02036

CIE xyY

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

x 0.593 y 0.319 Y 8.085

CMY

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

C % 37.255 M % 92.157 Y % 87.059

Binary RGB

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

10100000 00010100 00100001