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#770f13

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

Token name suggestion: Slate Cherry

RGB
119, 15, 19
HSL
358°, 78%, 26%
CMYK
0, 87, 84, 53
Luminance
0.0431

#770f13 is a dark electric red, 358° on the wheel and 18/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (11.28:1). As text it scores 11.28:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Maroon, nearest Tailwind family is red.

hsl(358 78% 26%)rgb(119 15 19)Base step 900AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #770f13 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#770f13
Hue
358°
red
Saturation
78%
electric
Lightness
26%
dark
Brightness
47%
HSV value
Perceived
26%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0431
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
18/100 cool
Color family
Red
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
11.28:1
Closest name
Maroon
ΔE2000 4.4
Chroma
51.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.367
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
red
500 · ΔE 27.4
Web-safe
#660000
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue358° of 360°
Saturation78%
Lightness26%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #770f13.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool18% 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
Red91%
Green8%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#770f13
HEX (8-digit)#770f13ff
RGBrgb(119, 15, 19)
RGBArgba(119, 15, 19, 1)
HSLhsl(358, 78%, 26%)
HSV / HSBhsv(358, 87%, 47%)
HWBhwb(358 6% 53%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 87%, 84%, 53%)
LABlab(24.7 42.9 27.8)
LCHlch(24.7 51.1 33.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.367 0.137 25.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(7.90, 4.31, 1.03)
Decimal7802643
Display P3color(display-p3 0.467 0.059 0.075)
Web-safe#660000

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #770f13;
background-color: #770f13;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #770f13;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#770f13] bg-[#770f13]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #770f13;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.467, green: 0.059, blue: 0.075)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.467, green: 0.059, blue: 0.075, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#770F13</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF770F13)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF770F13)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(19, 15, 119)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(119, 15, 19)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(119, 15, 19)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 119, 15, 19)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4667f, 0.0588f, 0.0745f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{119,15,19}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #770f13 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #770f13 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#710E12, #EED3D4);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #770f13 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: #FCF3F3;
  --brand-100: #F9E6E7;
  --brand-200: #F4C7C9;
  --brand-300: #F29B9F;
  --brand-400: #EC6A6F;
  --brand-500: #E6383E;
  --brand-600: #D91B23;
  --brand-700: #B5171D;
  --brand-800: #911217;
  --brand-900: #770f13;
  --brand-950: #420B0D;
  --brand: #770f13;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4F5;
  --brand-border: #EDC0C1;
  --brand-hover: #570B0E;
  --brand-pressed: #380709;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241414;
    --brand-ink: #EED3D4;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FCF3F3',
        100: '#F9E6E7',
        200: '#F4C7C9',
        300: '#F29B9F',
        400: '#EC6A6F',
        500: '#E6383E',
        600: '#D91B23',
        700: '#B5171D',
        800: '#911217',
        900: '#770f13',
        950: '#420B0D',
        DEFAULT: '#770f13',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FCF3F3,
  '100': #F9E6E7,
  '200': #F4C7C9,
  '300': #F29B9F,
  '400': #EC6A6F,
  '500': #E6383E,
  '600': #D91B23,
  '700': #B5171D,
  '800': #911217,
  '900': #770f13,
  '950': #420B0D,
);
$brand-base: #770f13;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FCF3F3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F9E6E7", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F4C7C9", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#F29B9F", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#EC6A6F", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#E6383E", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#D91B23", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#B5171D", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#911217", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#770f13", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#420B0D", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #770f13 · 11.28:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 11.28:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 1.86:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #770f13 as text scores 11.28:1 on white and 1.86:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #FCE8E9 at 9.59:1.

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
#770f13 · 11.28:1
AA on whitealready passes
#770f13
The quick fox
#770f13 · 11.28:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#770f13
The quick fox
#E3222A · 4.53:1
AA on black+25% L
#E3222A
The quick fox
#ED6F74 · 7.13:1
AAA on black+42% L
#ED6F74

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #770F13 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
#770f13 on white: 11.28:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#770f13 on black: 1.86:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #770f13 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #770f13.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White11.28:1AaAa
Slate 5010.78:1AaAa
Slate 10010.29:1AaAa
Slate 2009.15:1AaAa
Slate 3007.60:1AaAa
Slate 4004.40:1AaAa
Slate 5002.37:1AaAa
Slate 6001.49:1AaAa
Slate 7001.09:1AaAa
Slate 8001.30:1AaAa
Slate 9001.58:1AaAa
Black1.86:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #322C12
deuteranopia · #4B420E
tritanopia · #840012

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. #770f13 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.

#FCF3F3
#F9E6E7
#F4C7C9
#F29B9F
#EC6A6F
#E6383E
#D91B23
#B5171D
#911217
#770f13
#420B0D
Base = 900Lightest = 50 · #FCF3F3Darkest = 950 · #420B0DText 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 0.034 25.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.055 25.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.082 25.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.107 25.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.126 25.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.137 25.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.137 25.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.129 25.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.115 25.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.096 25.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.075 25.9);
}

Colors that work with #770f13

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#EDC0C1
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B4E
Captions on the surface
Accent#0C7A5A
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#710E12
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FCE8E9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241414
Dark-mode background
Hover#570B0E
One step down in lightness
Pressed#380709
Two steps down
Disabled#966062
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#910A0F
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 #770f13

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

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text on black or near-black surfaces
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • 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.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. 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
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight74/100
  • 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#0F7773
Analogous left#770F47
Analogous right#773F0F
Split-complement 1#0F773F
Split-complement 2#0F4777
Triadic 1#13770F
Triadic 2#0F1377
Tetradic#47770F
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°358°

#770f13 sits at 358°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red46.7%
Green5.9%
Blue7.5%
R · 0–255
119
0x77
G · 0–255
15
0x0f
B · 0–255
19
0x13

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta87.4%
Yellow84.0%
Key (black)53.3%

Total ink coverage is 225%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#770f13 text on a black background

contrast 1.86:1

Card sample

#770f13 text on a white background

contrast 11.28:1

Card sample

#770f13 on grey

10.29:1

#770f13 on its own surface

10.38:1

#770f13 on its dark surface

1.57:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #770f13;
Background color
Panel with #770f13 background
background-color: #770f13;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #770f13;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(119, 15, 19, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(119, 15, 19, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #770f13;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #770f13, #77500F);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #770f13, #776A0F);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #770f13;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #770f13;
caret-color: #770f13;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #770f13;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FCE8E9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #770f13;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#770f13 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #770f13 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(119, 15, 19, 0.5)
rgb(119 15 19 / 50%)
#770f1380
hsl(358 78% 26% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #770f13 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#770f131a#F1E7E7
20%#770f1333#E4CFD0
40%#770f1366#C99FA1
60%#770f1399#AD6F71
80%#770f13cc#923F42

Gradients from #770f13

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, #AD161C, #770f13 45%, #710E12);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #770f13, #5C450C);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #770f13, #0F7773);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #C91920 0%, #770f13 45%, #710E12 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%, #A4156E 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #925812 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #710E12 0%, transparent 65%), #770f13;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #770f13

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.

#770f13 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

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

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 1.86:1 — lift it to #E3222A 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.

#770f13, answered

What color is #770f13?

#770f13 is a dark electric red, closest to Maroon (ΔE2000 4.4). It sits at 358° on the hue wheel with 78% saturation and 26% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #770f13?

rgb(119, 15, 19) — 119 red, 15 green and 19 blue out of 255, or 46.7% / 5.9% / 7.5% by channel.

What is #770f13 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(358, 78%, 26%) and hsv(358, 87%, 47%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #770f13 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0431 and perceived brightness is 26%, so white text on it reaches 11.28:1.

Should I use black or white text on #770f13?

White. It scores 11.28:1 against #770f13, versus 1.86:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #770f13 accessible on a white background?

#770f13 on white scores 11.28:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #770f13?

#0F7773 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #0F773F and #0F4777, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #770f13?

For interface work: #FAF4F5 as the surface, #EDC0C1 for borders, #9B4B4E for secondary text, #0C7A5A as an accent and #710E12 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #770F47 and #773F0F stays calm, while #0F7773 is the loudest partner.

What is #770f13 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 87%, 84%, 53%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — a color this saturated sits outside most CMYK gamuts and will print duller than it looks here.

Is #770f13 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 18 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #772D0F; nudged cooler, #780E39.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #770f13?

The red family — its 500 step is #ef4444, ΔE2000 27.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #770f13 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #770f13 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#770f13] or text-[#770f13], 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 #770f13 with 50% opacity?

rgba(119, 15, 19, 0.5), or #770f1380 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BB8789; over black, #3C080A.

Is #770f13 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #660000, ΔE2000 4.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #770f13 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 chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #770f13?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #AD161C, #770f13 45%, #710E12). For more colour, a short hue run to #5C450C keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #770f13 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #770f13 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.