#CAAFA8

sRGB: 202 / 175 / 168

Celestial flames flourish beyond boundaries
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Brilliant stars carry promises of spring

#CAAFA8 belongs to the red family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 202 red, 175 green and 168 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 12.4° lands in the red region. Its 24.3% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 72.5% 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 (10.21:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 202, 175, 168
HSL: 12.35°, 24.29%, 72.55%
HSV / HSB: 12.35°, 16.83%, 79.22%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 13.37%, 16.83%, 20.78%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 46.753, 46.044, 43.472
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 73.574, 8.600, 7.179
WCAG relative luminance: 0.46044
24-bit decimal: 13283240

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 #CAAFA8 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: 10.21:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.06:1

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

#A8C3CA sits half a turn (180°) from #CAAFA8 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.

#CAAFA8 #A8C3CA

Analogous

#CAA8B2 and #CAC0A8 sit 30° to either side of #CAAFA8. 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.

#CAA8B2 #CAAFA8 #CAC0A8

Triadic

#CAAFA8, #A8CAAF and #AFA8CA are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#CAAFA8 #A8CAAF #AFA8CA

Split complementary

Start at #CAAFA8 and look across the wheel. #A8CAC0 and #A8B2CA sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#CAAFA8 #A8CAC0 #A8B2CA

Square

Starting with #CAAFA8, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #B2CAA8, #A8C3CA, then #C0A8CA. Across the square, #CAAFA8 pairs with #A8C3CA, and #B2CAA8 with #C0A8CA.

#CAAFA8 #B2CAA8 #A8C3CA #C0A8CA

Tetradic

#CAAFA8 and #A8C3CA are opposites, as are #C3CAA8 and #AFA8CA. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#CAAFA8 #C3CAA8 #A8C3CA #AFA8CA

Tints

Mixing #CAAFA8 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #D5BFB9, keeps 80% of the original. By #F4EFEE, the mixture is 80% white.

#CAAFA8 #D5BFB9 #DFCFCB #EADFDC #F4EFEE #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #CAAFA8 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A28C86, keeps 80% of the original. By #282322, the mixture is 80% black.

#CAAFA8 #A28C86 #796965 #514643 #282322 #000000

Tones

Mixing #CAAFA8 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BBA6A0, keeps 80% of the original. By #8F8988, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#CAAFA8 #BBA6A0 #AC9C98 #9E9390 #8F8988 #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

#CAAFA8

RGB

rgb(202 175 168)

HSL

hsl(12.353 24.286% 72.549%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #CAAFA8;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#CAAFA8 uses 202 red, 175 green and 168 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 79.2%

Green 68.6%

Blue 65.9%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #CAAFA8 is 0.0% cyan, 13.4% magenta, 16.8% yellow and 20.8% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 13.4%

Yellow 16.8%

Black 20.8%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #CCAAAA. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #CAA in CSS. For a modern design, keep #CAAFA8 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CC9999, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

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

Gradient to complement

#CAAFA8 #C4B2AE #BFB6B3 #B9B9B9 #B3BCBF #AEC0C4 #A8C3CA

Color vision previews

Compare how #CAAFA8 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.

#B5B2A8

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.

#BBB7A8

Tritanopia

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

#D1ACAD

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.

#BDB1A8

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.

#BFB4A8

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#CBAEAA

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#B5B5B5

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.

#C0B2AF

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 0.59062 G 0.42869 B 0.39157

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 0.77473 G 0.69013 B 0.66343

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.56187 G 0.43407 B 0.39766

CIE xyY

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

x 0.343 y 0.338 Y 46.044

CMY

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

C % 20.784 M % 31.373 Y % 34.118

Binary RGB

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

11001010 10101111 10101000