#BA0C19

sRGB: 186 / 12 / 25

#BA0C19 belongs to the red family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 186 red, 12 green and 25 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 355.5° lands in the red region. Its 87.9% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 38.8% 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 (6.66:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 186, 12, 25
HSL: 355.52°, 87.88%, 38.82%
HSV / HSB: 355.52°, 93.55%, 72.94%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 93.55%, 86.56%, 27.06%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 20.556, 10.774, 1.917
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 39.197, 62.208, 43.142
WCAG relative luminance: 0.10772
24-bit decimal: 12192793

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 #BA0C19 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: 3.15:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: AA

White text: 6.66:1

Normal text: AA
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

#0CBAAD sits half a turn (180°) from #BA0C19 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.

#BA0C19 #0CBAAD

Analogous

#BA0C70 and #BA560C sit 30° to either side of #BA0C19. 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.

#BA0C70 #BA0C19 #BA560C

Triadic

#BA0C19, #19BA0C and #0C19BA are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BA0C19 #19BA0C #0C19BA

Split complementary

Start at #BA0C19 and look across the wheel. #0CBA56 and #0C70BA sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BA0C19 #0CBA56 #0C70BA

Square

Starting with #BA0C19, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #70BA0C, #0CBAAD, then #560CBA. Across the square, #BA0C19 pairs with #0CBAAD, and #70BA0C with #560CBA.

#BA0C19 #70BA0C #0CBAAD #560CBA

Tetradic

#BA0C19 and #0CBAAD are opposites, as are #BAAD0C and #0C19BA. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BA0C19 #BAAD0C #0CBAAD #0C19BA

Tints

Mixing #BA0C19 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #C83D47, keeps 80% of the original. By #F1CED1, the mixture is 80% white.

#BA0C19 #C83D47 #D66D75 #E39EA3 #F1CED1 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BA0C19 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #950A14, keeps 80% of the original. By #250205, the mixture is 80% black.

#BA0C19 #950A14 #70070F #4A050A #250205 #000000

Tones

Mixing #BA0C19 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #AE232E, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C696B, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BA0C19 #AE232E #A33A42 #975257 #8C696B #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

#BA0C19

RGB

rgb(186 12 25)

HSL

hsl(355.517 87.879% 38.824%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #BA0C19;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BA0C19 uses 186 red, 12 green and 25 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 72.9%

Green 4.7%

Blue 9.8%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BA0C19 is 0.0% cyan, 93.5% magenta, 86.6% yellow and 27.1% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 93.5%

Yellow 86.6%

Black 27.1%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BB1111. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #B11 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #BA0C19 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CC0000, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #BB1111 Nearest web-safe: #CC0000

Gradient to complement

#BA0C19 #9D2932 #80464A #636363 #46807C #299D94 #0CBAAD

Color vision previews

Compare how #BA0C19 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.

#4E4516

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.

#76690C

Tritanopia

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

#CE0016

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.

#833F12

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.

#8E560E

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BB031C

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#5C5C5C

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.

#954345

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 0.49102 G 0.00368 B 0.00972

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 0.66855 G 0.15107 B 0.14054

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.40450 G 0.01985 B 0.01751

CIE xyY

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

x 0.618 y 0.324 Y 10.774

CMY

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

C % 27.059 M % 95.294 Y % 90.196

Binary RGB

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

10111010 00001100 00011001