#C19CA1

sRGB: 193 / 156 / 161

Celestial flames dissolve into silence
Shimmering rivers thunder through timeless canyons
Brilliant stars surrender to silence

#C19CA1 belongs to the red family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 193 red, 156 green and 161 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 351.9° lands in the red region. Its 23.0% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 68.4% on a scale from black (0%) to white (100%). Of black and white lettering, black has the clearer light-to-dark separation on this background (8.54:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 193, 156, 161
HSL: 351.89°, 22.98%, 68.43%
HSV / HSB: 351.89°, 19.17%, 75.69%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 19.17%, 16.58%, 24.31%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 40.312, 37.688, 38.870
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 67.790, 14.503, 2.597
WCAG relative luminance: 0.37688
24-bit decimal: 12688545

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 #C19CA1 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: 8.54:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.46:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

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

#9CC1BC sits half a turn (180°) from #C19CA1 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.

#C19CA1 #9CC1BC

Analogous

#C19CB3 and #C1AA9C sit 30° to either side of #C19CA1. 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.

#C19CB3 #C19CA1 #C1AA9C

Triadic

#C19CA1, #A1C19C and #9CA1C1 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#C19CA1 #A1C19C #9CA1C1

Split complementary

Start at #C19CA1 and look across the wheel. #9CC1AA and #9CB4C1 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#C19CA1 #9CC1AA #9CB4C1

Square

Starting with #C19CA1, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #B4C19C, #9CC1BC, then #AA9CC1. Across the square, #C19CA1 pairs with #9CC1BC, and #B4C19C with #AA9CC1.

#C19CA1 #B4C19C #9CC1BC #AA9CC1

Tetradic

#C19CA1 and #9CC1BC are opposites, as are #C1BC9C and #9CA1C1. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#C19CA1 #C1BC9C #9CC1BC #9CA1C1

Tints

Mixing #C19CA1 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CDB0B4, keeps 80% of the original. By #F3EBEC, the mixture is 80% white.

#C19CA1 #CDB0B4 #DAC4C7 #E6D7D9 #F3EBEC #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #C19CA1 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #9A7D81, keeps 80% of the original. By #271F20, the mixture is 80% black.

#C19CA1 #9A7D81 #745E61 #4D3E40 #271F20 #000000

Tones

Mixing #C19CA1 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B4969A, keeps 80% of the original. By #8D8687, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#C19CA1 #B4969A #A79194 #9A8B8D #8D8687 #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

#C19CA1

RGB

rgb(193 156 161)

HSL

hsl(351.892 22.981% 68.431%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #C19CA1;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#C19CA1 uses 193 red, 156 green and 161 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 75.7%

Green 61.2%

Blue 63.1%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #C19CA1 is 0.0% cyan, 19.2% magenta, 16.6% yellow and 24.3% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 19.2%

Yellow 16.6%

Black 24.3%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BB9999. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #B99 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #C19CA1 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CC9999, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #BB9999 Nearest web-safe: #CC9999

Gradient to complement

#C19CA1 #BBA2A6 #B5A8AA #AFAFAF #A8B5B3 #A2BBB8 #9CC1BC

Color vision previews

Compare how #C19CA1 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.

#A1A1A1

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.

#AAA8A0

Tritanopia

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

#C8999E

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.

#AEA0A1

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.

#B1A4A0

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#C19CA0

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#A5A5A5

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.

#B4A1A3

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 0.53328 G 0.33245 B 0.35640

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 0.73379 G 0.61730 B 0.63240

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.49762 G 0.33912 B 0.35769

CIE xyY

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

x 0.345 y 0.322 Y 37.688

CMY

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

C % 24.314 M % 38.824 Y % 36.863

Binary RGB

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

11000001 10011100 10100001