#EA4619

sRGB: 234 / 70 / 25

Infinite horizons flourish beyond boundaries
Sleeping valleys blossom beneath falling stars
Pale reflections reveal unspoken wonders

#EA4619 belongs to the red family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 234 red, 70 green and 25 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 12.9° lands in the red region. Its 83.3% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 50.8% 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 (5.39:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 234, 70, 25
HSL: 12.92°, 83.27%, 50.78%
HSV / HSB: 12.92°, 89.32%, 91.76%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 70.09%, 89.32%, 8.24%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 36.296, 21.946, 3.245
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 53.970, 61.162, 58.636
WCAG relative luminance: 0.21943
24-bit decimal: 15353369

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 #EA4619 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: 5.39:1

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

#19BDEA sits half a turn (180°) from #EA4619 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.

#EA4619 #19BDEA

Analogous

#EA1954 and #EAAF19 sit 30° to either side of #EA4619. 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.

#EA1954 #EA4619 #EAAF19

Triadic

#EA4619, #19EA46 and #4619EA are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#EA4619 #19EA46 #4619EA

Split complementary

Start at #EA4619 and look across the wheel. #19EAAF and #1954EA sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#EA4619 #19EAAF #1954EA

Square

Starting with #EA4619, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #54EA19, #19BDEA, then #AF19EA. Across the square, #EA4619 pairs with #19BDEA, and #54EA19 with #AF19EA.

#EA4619 #54EA19 #19BDEA #AF19EA

Tetradic

#EA4619 and #19BDEA are opposites, as are #BDEA19 and #4619EA. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#EA4619 #BDEA19 #19BDEA #4619EA

Tints

Mixing #EA4619 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #EE6B47, keeps 80% of the original. By #FBDAD1, the mixture is 80% white.

#EA4619 #EE6B47 #F29075 #F7B5A3 #FBDAD1 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #EA4619 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BB3814, keeps 80% of the original. By #2F0E05, the mixture is 80% black.

#EA4619 #BB3814 #8C2A0F #5E1C0A #2F0E05 #000000

Tones

Mixing #EA4619 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #D5522E, keeps 80% of the original. By #95746B, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#EA4619 #D5522E #C05D42 #AA6957 #95746B #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

#EA4619

RGB

rgb(234 70 25)

HSL

hsl(12.919 83.267% 50.784%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #EA4619;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#EA4619 uses 234 red, 70 green and 25 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 91.8%

Green 27.5%

Blue 9.8%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #EA4619 is 0.0% cyan, 70.1% magenta, 89.3% 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 89.3%

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 #EA4619 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

#EA4619 #C75A3C #A46E5F #828282 #5F95A4 #3CA9C7 #19BDEA

Color vision previews

Compare how #EA4619 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.

#786A0D

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.

#A08E08

Tritanopia

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

#FF003F

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.

#AD6409

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.

#B97B09

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#EC422E

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.

#BF695F

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 0.00972

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 0.84755 G 0.32553 B 0.18046

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.68758 G 0.08652 B 0.02734

CIE xyY

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

x 0.590 y 0.357 Y 21.946

CMY

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

C % 8.235 M % 72.549 Y % 90.196

Binary RGB

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

11101010 01000110 00011001