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#612732

a dark, soft red · warm · closest name: Maroon

Token name suggestion: Forest Cherry

RGB
97, 39, 50
HSL
349°, 43%, 27%
CMYK
0, 60, 49, 62
Luminance
0.0422

#612732 is a dark soft red, 349° on the wheel and 23/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (11.38:1). As text it scores 11.38:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Maroon, nearest Tailwind family is stone.

hsl(349 43% 27%)rgb(97 39 50)Base step 900AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #612732 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#612732
Hue
349°
red
Saturation
43%
soft
Lightness
27%
dark
Brightness
38%
HSV value
Perceived
25%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0422
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
23/100 cool
Color family
Red
Tone
Soft
Best ink
White
11.38:1
Closest name
Maroon
ΔE2000 16.1
Chroma
28.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.359
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
stone
500 · ΔE 27.7
Web-safe
#663333
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue349° of 360°
Saturation43%
Lightness27%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #612732.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool23% cool

Reads warm. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red60%
Green34%
Blue5%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#612732
HEX (8-digit)#612732ff
RGBrgb(97, 39, 50)
RGBArgba(97, 39, 50, 1)
HSLhsl(349, 43%, 27%)
HSV / HSBhsv(349, 60%, 38%)
HWBhwb(349 15% 62%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 60%, 49%, 62%)
LABlab(24.4 27.5 6.0)
LCHlch(24.4 28.1 12.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.359 0.085 10.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(6.23, 4.22, 3.50)
Decimal6367026
Display P3color(display-p3 0.380 0.153 0.196)
Web-safe#663333

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #612732;
background-color: #612732;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #612732;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#612732] bg-[#612732]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #612732;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.380, green: 0.153, blue: 0.196)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.380, green: 0.153, blue: 0.196, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#612732</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF612732)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF612732)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(50, 39, 97)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(97, 39, 50)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(97, 39, 50)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 97, 39, 50)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.3804f, 0.1529f, 0.1961f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{97,39,50}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #612732 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #612732 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#5B252F, #EDD3D8);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #612732 h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #FAF5F6;
  --brand-100: #F5EBED;
  --brand-200: #EAD1D6;
  --brand-300: #DFAFB8;
  --brand-400: #CF8795;
  --brand-500: #BF5F71;
  --brand-600: #AF465A;
  --brand-700: #913B4B;
  --brand-800: #742F3C;
  --brand-900: #612732;
  --brand-950: #35171D;
  --brand: #612732;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4F5;
  --brand-border: #E8C5CB;
  --brand-hover: #481D25;
  --brand-pressed: #2E1318;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241417;
    --brand-ink: #EDD3D8;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAF5F6',
        100: '#F5EBED',
        200: '#EAD1D6',
        300: '#DFAFB8',
        400: '#CF8795',
        500: '#BF5F71',
        600: '#AF465A',
        700: '#913B4B',
        800: '#742F3C',
        900: '#612732',
        950: '#35171D',
        DEFAULT: '#612732',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAF5F6,
  '100': #F5EBED,
  '200': #EAD1D6,
  '300': #DFAFB8,
  '400': #CF8795,
  '500': #BF5F71,
  '600': #AF465A,
  '700': #913B4B,
  '800': #742F3C,
  '900': #612732,
  '950': #35171D,
);
$brand-base: #612732;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FAF5F6", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F5EBED", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#EAD1D6", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#DFAFB8", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#CF8795", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#BF5F71", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#AF465A", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#913B4B", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#742F3C", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#612732", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#35171D", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#ffffff", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#ffffff on #612732 · 11.38:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 11.38:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 1.84:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #612732 as text scores 11.38:1 on white and 1.84:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F8EDEF at 9.95:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#612732 · 11.38:1
AA on whitealready passes
#612732
The quick fox
#612732 · 11.38:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#612732
The quick fox
#BA5367 · 4.52:1
AA on black+26% L
#BA5367
The quick fox
#CD8290 · 7.19:1
AAA on black+39% L
#CD8290

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #612732 is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#612732 on white: 11.38:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#612732 on black: 1.84:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #612732 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #612732.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White11.38:1AaAa
Slate 5010.88:1AaAa
Slate 10010.39:1AaAa
Slate 2009.24:1AaAa
Slate 3007.67:1AaAa
Slate 4004.44:1AaAa
Slate 5002.39:1AaAa
Slate 6001.50:1AaAa
Slate 7001.10:1AaAa
Slate 8001.28:1AaAa
Slate 9001.57:1AaAa
Black1.84:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #333332
deuteranopia · #423E31
tritanopia · #6A202B

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #612732 is pinned to step 900; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FAF5F6
#F5EBED
#EAD1D6
#DFAFB8
#CF8795
#BF5F71
#AF465A
#913B4B
#742F3C
#612732
#35171D
Base = 900Lightest = 50 · #FAF5F6Darkest = 950 · #35171DText step on white = 600
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.021 10.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.034 10.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.051 10.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.066 10.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.078 10.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.085 10.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.085 10.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.080 10.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.071 10.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.059 10.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.047 10.6);
}

Colors that work with #612732

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#ffffff
White wins here
Surface#FAF4F5
Tinted page background
Border#E8C5CB
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B5A
Captions on the surface
Accent#246448
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#5B252F
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F8EDEF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241417
Dark-mode background
Hover#481D25
One step down in lightness
Pressed#2E1318
Two steps down
Disabled#98616B
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#772535
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
Your export is ready

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #612732

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text on black or near-black surfaces
  • Black text placed on it
  • Status meaning — pair it with an icon or label, never colour alone
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Any size
Safe as a fill behind white type
Yes
Safe as a 1px border on white
Yes

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

urgentappetisingboldphysical

Red arrives before the rest of the page does. It raises attention and appetite, which is why it runs food, sport and clearance pricing.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. The low lightness adds weight and formality.

Worth knowing

It is also the universal error colour. Use it as a brand accent and users may read a warning that is not there.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyMedium
  • Weight73/100
  • TemperatureWarm
  • ApproachabilityHigh

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#276156
Analogous left#61274F
Analogous right#613927
Split-complement 1#276139
Split-complement 2#274F61
Triadic 1#326127
Triadic 2#273261
Tetradic#4F6127
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°349°

#612732 sits at 349°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red38.0%
Green15.3%
Blue19.6%
R · 0–255
97
0x61
G · 0–255
39
0x27
B · 0–255
50
0x32

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta59.8%
Yellow48.5%
Key (black)62.0%

Total ink coverage is 170%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#612732 text on a black background

contrast 1.84:1

Card sample

#612732 text on a white background

contrast 11.38:1

Card sample

#612732 on grey

10.39:1

#612732 on its own surface

10.48:1

#612732 on its dark surface

1.55:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #612732;
Background color
Panel with #612732 background
background-color: #612732;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #612732;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(97, 39, 50, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(97, 39, 50, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #612732;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #612732, #614327);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #612732, #615127);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #612732;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #612732;
caret-color: #612732;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #612732;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F8EDEF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #612732;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#612732 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #612732 over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(97, 39, 50, 0.5)
rgb(97 39 50 / 50%)
#61273280
hsl(349 43% 27% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #612732 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#6127321a#EFE9EB
20%#61273233#DFD4D6
40%#61273266#C0A9AD
60%#61273299#A07D84
80%#612732cc#81525B

Gradients from #612732

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #8D3949, #612732 45%, #5B252F);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #612732, #4B371E);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #612732, #276156);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #A34154 0%, #612732 45%, #5B252F 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF4F5, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #853673 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #774C30 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #5B252F 0%, transparent 65%), #612732;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #612732

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#612732 in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
Food and drinkEntertainmentRetailSport
Common UI roles
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

On screens

Very dark values collapse into each other on cheap panels — leave more lightness between your darkest steps than the numbers suggest.

In dark mode

Too dim on dark surfaces at 1.84:1 — lift it to #BA5367 for body text, or reserve it for fills.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#612732, answered

What color is #612732?

#612732 is a dark soft red, closest to Maroon (ΔE2000 16.1). It sits at 349° on the hue wheel with 43% saturation and 27% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #612732?

rgb(97, 39, 50) — 97 red, 39 green and 50 blue out of 255, or 38% / 15.3% / 19.6% by channel.

What is #612732 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(349, 43%, 27%) and hsv(349, 60%, 38%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #612732 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0422 and perceived brightness is 25%, so white text on it reaches 11.38:1.

Should I use black or white text on #612732?

White. It scores 11.38:1 against #612732, versus 1.84:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #612732 accessible on a white background?

#612732 on white scores 11.38:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #612732?

#276156 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #276139 and #274F61, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #612732?

For interface work: #FAF4F5 as the surface, #E8C5CB for borders, #9B4B5A for secondary text, #246448 as an accent and #5B252F for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #61274F and #613927 stays calm, while #276156 is the loudest partner.

What is #612732 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 60%, 49%, 62%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #612732 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 23 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #613127; nudged cooler, #622648.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #612732?

The stone family — its 500 step is #78716c, ΔE2000 27.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #612732 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #612732 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#612732] or text-[#612732], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #612732 with 50% opacity?

rgba(97, 39, 50, 0.5), or #61273280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #B09399; over black, #311419.

Is #612732 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #663333, ΔE2000 5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #612732 mean?

As a red, it reads urgent, appetising, bold. Red arrives before the rest of the page does. It raises attention and appetite, which is why it runs food, sport and clearance pricing. At this moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #612732?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #8D3949, #612732 45%, #5B252F). For more colour, a short hue run to #4B371E keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #612732 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #612732 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.