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Pictured: Copper rose, the closest color we have a photo of (#996666)
rgb(169, 92, 104)
#A95C68

Deep Puce #A95C68 RGB Color Code

Deep Puce (#A95C68) is a moderately saturated, medium red. In RGB it is made of 66% red, 36% green and 41% blue (R 169, G 92, B 104). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 351°, 31% saturation and 51% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.171, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 46% magenta, 38% yellow and 34% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a warm color. It goes well with cool blues and greens for contrast. For a matching look, use nearby warm tones.

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Deep Puce color codes

#A95C68 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #A95C68 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(169, 92, 104) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(351, 31%, 51%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(351, 46%, 66%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(351 36% 34%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 46%, 38%, 34%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(56.76% 0.1009 10.87) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(56.76% 0.0991 0.019) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(48.68% 33.07 7.9) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(48.68% 34 13.43) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.6224 0.376 0.4108) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.2269 0.1709 0.152) Valid CSS
Decimal 11099240 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1709. Nearest web-safe color: #996666.

Mix Deep Puce with other colors

See what #A95C68 makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintDeep Puce and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightDeep Puce and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintDeep Puce and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalDeep Puce blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Deep Puce in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

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CSS variable--deep-puce: #A95C68;
Sass variable$deep-puce: #A95C68;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-deep-puce: #A95C68; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'deep-puce': '#A95C68' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.663, green: 0.361, blue: 0.408)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.663, green: 0.361, blue: 0.408, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="deep_puce">#FFA95C68</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFA95C68)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #A95C68 (4.75:1, AA). Here is how #A95C68 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4.75:1 on white
APCA Lc 73
AA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4.42:1 on black
APCA Lc -29
AA LargeTry #AA5D69

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Deep Puce

#A95C68 next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

#A95C68 stays easy to tell apart from its complement and triadic colors for the common types of color blindness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Deep Puce

The color of a flea

Puce comes from the French couleur puce, which means flea color. It became a fashion color at the court of Louis XVI in the late 1700s. It is often called a favorite of Marie Antoinette, but no portrait shows her wearing it. You can read more in the Wikipedia article on puce.

Which puce is this?

Color lists disagree a lot about puce. The code #A95C68 is the puce printed in Maerz and Paul's A Dictionary of Color of 1930, on plate 7. The book calls it just puce. Online color lists name it deep puce to tell it apart from the lighter puce at #CC8899. The ISCC-NBS dictionary gives a much darker puce, #722F37.

Deep puce sits close to China rose, with a touch more brown. White text on it reaches 4.75 to 1, just above the 4.5 to 1 that WCAG asks for in body text.

Deep Puce in a user interface

A sample app screen with #A95C68 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #A95C68 as it is. On the dark theme, #A95C68 is too hard to read as text (3.74:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #B86975 there (4.50:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Deep Puce

These schemes turn the hue of #A95C68 around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#A95C68#5CA99D

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#A95C8Fthis#A95C68#A9775C

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#A95C68#68A95C#5C68A9

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#A95C68#5CA977#5C8FA9

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#A95C68#A99D5C#5CA99D#5C68A9

Square

Four hues 90° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#A95C68#8FA95C#5CA99D#775CA9

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#432328#794049#AB606C#C8979E#E5CDD1

Gradients with Deep Puce

Four CSS gradients made from #A95C68. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #EFDDDF, #A95C68);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #A95C68, #2C1418);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #A95C8F, #A95C68, #A9775C);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #A95C68, #928564, #68A95C);

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Shades, tints and tones of Deep Puce

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Deep Puce sits at step 600. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF4F5
  2. 100
    FFE6E8
  3. 200
    FFCBD1
  4. 300
    F1ABB4
  5. 400
    D88A94
  6. 500
    BA6B77
  7. 600
    A95C68
  8. 700
    803D49
  9. 800
    662E38
  10. 900
    4B2128
  11. 950
    2C1519

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #A95C68 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 3033 Pearl pink#B24C43, close (ΔE 5.2)Tailwind CSSamber-700 #B45309, close (ΔE 9.2)CSS color namesindianred #CD5C5C, close (ΔE 6.9)

ΔE is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of red or search the color library.