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#79110a

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

Token name suggestion: Forest Cardinal

RGB
121, 17, 10
HSL
4°, 85%, 26%
CMYK
0, 86, 92, 53
Luminance
0.0449

#79110a is a dark electric red, 4° on the wheel and 15/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (11.07:1). As text it scores 11.07:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Maroon, nearest Tailwind family is red.

hsl(4 85% 26%)rgb(121 17 10)Base step 900AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #79110a is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#79110a
Hue
red
Saturation
85%
electric
Lightness
26%
dark
Brightness
47%
HSV value
Perceived
26%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0449
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
15/100 cool
Color family
Red
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
11.07:1
Closest name
Maroon
ΔE2000 2.1
Chroma
54.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.372
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
red
500 · ΔE 27.1
Web-safe
#660000
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue4° of 360°
Saturation85%
Lightness26%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #79110a.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool15% 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%
Green9%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#79110a
HEX (8-digit)#79110aff
RGBrgb(121, 17, 10)
RGBArgba(121, 17, 10, 1)
HSLhsl(4, 85%, 26%)
HSV / HSBhsv(4, 92%, 47%)
HWBhwb(4 4% 53%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 86%, 92%, 53%)
LABlab(25.2 42.7 33.1)
LCHlch(25.2 54.0 37.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.372 0.139 29.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(8.14, 4.49, 0.72)
Decimal7934218
Display P3color(display-p3 0.475 0.067 0.039)
Web-safe#660000

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #79110a;
background-color: #79110a;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #79110a;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#79110a] bg-[#79110a]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #79110a;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.475, green: 0.067, blue: 0.039)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.475, green: 0.067, blue: 0.039, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#79110A</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF79110A)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF79110A)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(10, 17, 121)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(121, 17, 10)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(121, 17, 10)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 121, 17, 10)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4745f, 0.0667f, 0.0392f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{121,17,10}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #79110a 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #79110a 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#76110A, #EED4D3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #79110a 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: #FCF3F2;
  --brand-100: #FAE7E5;
  --brand-200: #F7C8C5;
  --brand-300: #F69D97;
  --brand-400: #F26D64;
  --brand-500: #EE3C30;
  --brand-600: #E22013;
  --brand-700: #BC1B10;
  --brand-800: #97150C;
  --brand-900: #79110a;
  --brand-950: #440C08;
  --brand: #79110a;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF5F4;
  --brand-border: #EDC3C0;
  --brand-hover: #580C07;
  --brand-pressed: #370805;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241514;
    --brand-ink: #EED4D3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FCF3F2',
        100: '#FAE7E5',
        200: '#F7C8C5',
        300: '#F69D97',
        400: '#F26D64',
        500: '#EE3C30',
        600: '#E22013',
        700: '#BC1B10',
        800: '#97150C',
        900: '#79110a',
        950: '#440C08',
        DEFAULT: '#79110a',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FCF3F2,
  '100': #FAE7E5,
  '200': #F7C8C5,
  '300': #F69D97,
  '400': #F26D64,
  '500': #EE3C30,
  '600': #E22013,
  '700': #BC1B10,
  '800': #97150C,
  '900': #79110a,
  '950': #440C08,
);
$brand-base: #79110a;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FCF3F2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FAE7E5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F7C8C5", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#F69D97", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#F26D64", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#EE3C30", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#E22013", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#BC1B10", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#97150C", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#79110a", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#440C08", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #79110a · 11.07:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 11.07:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 1.90:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #79110a as text scores 11.07:1 on white and 1.90:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #FDE9E7 at 9.48:1.

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
#79110a · 11.07:1
AA on whitealready passes
#79110a
The quick fox
#79110a · 11.07:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#79110a
The quick fox
#E52013 · 4.55:1
AA on black+23% L
#E52013
The quick fox
#F26B62 · 7.05:1
AAA on black+41% L
#F26B62

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #79110A 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
#79110a on white: 11.07:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#79110a on black: 1.90:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #79110a as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #79110a.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White11.07:1AaAa
Slate 5010.58:1AaAa
Slate 10010.10:1AaAa
Slate 2008.98:1AaAa
Slate 3007.45:1AaAa
Slate 4004.32:1AaAa
Slate 5002.33:1AaAa
Slate 6001.46:1AaAa
Slate 7001.07:1AaAa
Slate 8001.32:1AaAa
Slate 9001.61:1AaAa
Black1.90:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #342D07
deuteranopia · #4D4403
tritanopia · #860011

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. #79110a 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.

#FCF3F2
#FAE7E5
#F7C8C5
#F69D97
#F26D64
#EE3C30
#E22013
#BC1B10
#97150C
#79110a
#440C08
Base = 900Lightest = 50 · #FCF3F2Darkest = 950 · #440C08Text 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 0.035 29.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.055 29.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.083 29.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.108 29.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.128 29.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.139 29.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.139 29.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.130 29.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.116 29.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.097 29.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.076 29.4);
}

Colors that work with #79110a

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#FAF5F4
Tinted page background
Border#EDC3C0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B504B
Captions on the surface
Accent#077C66
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#76110A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FDE9E7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241514
Dark-mode background
Hover#580C07
One step down in lightness
Pressed#370805
Two steps down
Disabled#94625F
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#930D04
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
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #79110a

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#0A7279
Analogous left#790A3B
Analogous right#79490A
Split-complement 1#0A7949
Split-complement 2#0A3B79
Triadic 1#0A7911
Triadic 2#110A79
Tetradic#3B790A
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°4°

#79110a sits at 4°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red47.5%
Green6.7%
Blue3.9%
R · 0–255
121
0x79
G · 0–255
17
0x11
B · 0–255
10
0x0a

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta86.0%
Yellow91.7%
Key (black)52.5%

Total ink coverage is 230%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#79110a text on a black background

contrast 1.90:1

Card sample

#79110a text on a white background

contrast 11.07:1

Card sample

#79110a on grey

10.10:1

#79110a on its own surface

10.24:1

#79110a on its dark surface

1.59:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #79110a;
Background color
Panel with #79110a background
background-color: #79110a;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #79110a;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(121, 17, 10, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(121, 17, 10, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #79110a;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #79110a, #795B0A);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #79110a, #79770A);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #79110a;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #79110a;
caret-color: #79110a;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #79110a;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FDE9E7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #79110a;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#79110a 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #79110a 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(121, 17, 10, 0.5)
rgb(121 17 10 / 50%)
#79110a80
hsl(4 85% 26% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #79110a 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#79110a1a#F2E7E7
20%#79110a33#E4CFCE
40%#79110a66#C9A09D
60%#79110a99#AF706C
80%#79110acc#94413B

Gradients from #79110a

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, #B2190F, #79110a 45%, #76110A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #79110a, #5D4D08);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #79110a, #0A7279);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #CE1D11 0%, #79110a 45%, #76110A 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF5F4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #A80E5E 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #95650C 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #76110A 0%, transparent 65%), #79110a;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #79110a

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.

#79110a 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 1.90:1 — lift it to #E52013 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.

#79110a, answered

What color is #79110a?

#79110a is a dark electric red, closest to Maroon (ΔE2000 2.1). It sits at 4° on the hue wheel with 85% saturation and 26% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #79110a?

rgb(121, 17, 10) — 121 red, 17 green and 10 blue out of 255, or 47.5% / 6.7% / 3.9% by channel.

What is #79110a in HSL and HSV?

hsl(4, 85%, 26%) and hsv(4, 92%, 47%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #79110a a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0449 and perceived brightness is 26%, so white text on it reaches 11.07:1.

Should I use black or white text on #79110a?

White. It scores 11.07:1 against #79110a, versus 1.90:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #79110a accessible on a white background?

#79110a on white scores 11.07:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #79110a?

#0A7279 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #0A7949 and #0A3B79, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #79110a?

For interface work: #FAF5F4 as the surface, #EDC3C0 for borders, #9B504B for secondary text, #077C66 as an accent and #76110A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #790A3B and #79490A stays calm, while #0A7279 is the loudest partner.

What is #79110a in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 86%, 92%, 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 #79110a warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 15 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #792C0A; nudged cooler, #7A092B.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #79110a?

The red family — its 500 step is #ef4444, ΔE2000 27.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #79110a as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #79110a in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#79110a] or text-[#79110a], 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 #79110a with 50% opacity?

rgba(121, 17, 10, 0.5), or #79110a80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BC8885; over black, #3D0905.

Is #79110a a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #660000, ΔE2000 4.4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #79110a 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 #79110a?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #B2190F, #79110a 45%, #76110A). For more colour, a short hue run to #5D4D08 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #79110a in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #79110a at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.