#EA4614

sRGB: 234 / 70 / 20

Infinite horizons flourish beyond boundaries
Sleeping valleys blossom beneath falling stars
Pale reflections drift toward tomorrow

#EA4614 belongs to the red family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 234 red, 70 green and 20 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 14.0° lands in the red region. Its 84.3% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 49.8% 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 (5.38:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 234, 70, 20
HSL: 14.02°, 84.25%, 49.80%
HSV / HSB: 14.02°, 91.45%, 91.76%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 70.09%, 91.45%, 8.24%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 36.247, 21.926, 2.985
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 53.949, 61.089, 60.297
WCAG relative luminance: 0.21923
24-bit decimal: 15353364

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 #EA4614 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: 5.38:1

Normal text: AA
Large text: AAA

White text: 3.90:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: AA

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

#14B8EA sits half a turn (180°) from #EA4614 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.

#EA4614 #14B8EA

Analogous

#EA144D and #EAB114 sit 30° to either side of #EA4614. 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.

#EA144D #EA4614 #EAB114

Triadic

#EA4614, #14EA46 and #4614EA are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#EA4614 #14EA46 #4614EA

Split complementary

Start at #EA4614 and look across the wheel. #14EAB1 and #144DEA sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#EA4614 #14EAB1 #144DEA

Square

Starting with #EA4614, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #4DEA14, #14B8EA, then #B114EA. Across the square, #EA4614 pairs with #14B8EA, and #4DEA14 with #B114EA.

#EA4614 #4DEA14 #14B8EA #B114EA

Tetradic

#EA4614 and #14B8EA are opposites, as are #B8EA14 and #4614EA. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#EA4614 #B8EA14 #14B8EA #4614EA

Tints

Mixing #EA4614 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #EE6B43, keeps 80% of the original. By #FBDAD0, the mixture is 80% white.

#EA4614 #EE6B43 #F29072 #F7B5A1 #FBDAD0 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #EA4614 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BB3810, keeps 80% of the original. By #2F0E04, the mixture is 80% black.

#EA4614 #BB3810 #8C2A0C #5E1C08 #2F0E04 #000000

Tones

Mixing #EA4614 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #D5522A, keeps 80% of the original. By #95746A, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#EA4614 #D5522A #C05D3F #AA6955 #95746A #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

#EA4614

RGB

rgb(234 70 20)

HSL

hsl(14.019 84.252% 49.804%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #EA4614;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#EA4614 uses 234 red, 70 green and 20 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 91.8%

Green 27.5%

Blue 7.8%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #EA4614 is 0.0% cyan, 70.1% magenta, 91.5% yellow and 8.2% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 70.1%

Yellow 91.5%

Black 8.2%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #EE4411. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #E41 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #EA4614 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #FF3300, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #EE4411 Nearest web-safe: #FF3300

Gradient to complement

#EA4614 #C65938 #A36C5B #7F7F7F #5B92A3 #38A5C6 #14B8EA

Color vision previews

Compare how #EA4614 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.

#786A04

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.

#A08E00

Tritanopia

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

#FF003E

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.

#AD6400

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.

#B97B00

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#EC422C

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#818181

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.

#BF695E

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 0.82279 G 0.06125 B 0.00700

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 0.84755 G 0.32553 B 0.17131

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.68758 G 0.08652 B 0.02486

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 0.359 Y 21.926

CMY

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

C % 8.235 M % 72.549 Y % 92.157

Binary RGB

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

11101010 01000110 00010100