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rgb(132, 63, 91)
#843F5B

Deep Ruby #843F5B RGB Color Code

Deep Ruby (#843F5B) is a moderately saturated, medium red. In RGB it is made of 52% red, 25% green and 36% blue (R 132, G 63, B 91). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 336Β°, 35% saturation and 38% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.092, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 52% magenta, 31% yellow and 48% 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 Ruby color codes

#843F5B in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #843F5B Valid CSS
RGB rgb(132, 63, 91) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(336, 35%, 38%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(336, 52%, 52%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(336 25% 48%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 52%, 31%, 48%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(46.47% 0.1001 356.1) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(46.47% 0.0999 -0.0068) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(36.61% 32.66 -2.2) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(36.61% 32.74 356.14) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.483 0.2618 0.3539) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.1318 0.0922 0.1098) Valid CSS
Decimal 8666971 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.0922. Nearest web-safe color: #993366.

Mix Deep Ruby with other colors

See what #843F5B 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 Ruby and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightDeep Ruby and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintDeep Ruby and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalDeep Ruby blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Deep Ruby 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-ruby: #843F5B;
Sass variable$deep-ruby: #843F5B;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-deep-ruby: #843F5B; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'deep-ruby': '#843F5B' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.518, green: 0.247, blue: 0.357)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.518, green: 0.247, blue: 0.357, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="deep_ruby">#FF843F5B</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF843F5B)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #843F5B (7.39:1, AAA). Here is how #843F5B does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
7.39:1 on white
APCA Lc 85
AAA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
2.84:1 on black
APCA Lc -17
Fails AATry #A65E7A

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 Ruby

#843F5B 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

With protanopia and deuteranopia, #843F5B and #3F5B84 look much alike. Don't use these colors alone to tell things apart, for example in a chart. Add labels, patterns or a difference in lightness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Deep Ruby

Ruby in a British standard

This dark, purple tinged red is called plain ruby in British Standard 381, where it is color number 542. That standard sets colors for coding, marking and other special jobs. The British color lists were first drawn up in 1930 and reached their present form in 1955.

The Wikipedia article on ruby shows this British color under the heading deep ruby. That keeps it apart from the much brighter ruby, #E0115F, taken from Maerz and Paul's color dictionary of 1930.

Other rubies

Ruby has been used as a color name in English since 1572. The ISCC-NBS system calls this version a dark purplish red. Two more gem reds on this site are antique ruby and medium ruby, which was a Crayola Gem Tones crayon. White text on deep ruby reaches a contrast ratio of 7.39 to 1.

Deep Ruby in a user interface

A sample app screen with #843F5B as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #843F5B as it is. On the dark theme, #843F5B is too hard to read as text (2.40:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #B46A86 there (4.52:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Deep Ruby

These schemes turn the hue of #843F5B 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#843F5B#3F8468

Analogous

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

Open palette
#843F7Ethis#843F5B#84463F

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#843F5B#5B843F#3F5B84

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#843F5B#3F8446#3F7E84

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#843F5B#84683F#3F8468#3F5B84

Square

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

Open palette
this#843F5B#7E843F#3F8468#463F84

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#452130#7D3C56#B15B7E#CC93AA#E6CBD6

Gradients with Deep Ruby

Four CSS gradients made from #843F5B. 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, #E7D7DC, #843F5B);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #843F5B, #200A13);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #843F7E, #843F5B, #84463F);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #843F5B, #766450, #5B843F);

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Shades, tints and tones of Deep Ruby

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 Ruby sits at step 700. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF3F7
  2. 100
    FFE5ED
  3. 200
    FECADC
  4. 300
    EDABC2
  5. 400
    D38AA5
  6. 500
    B66C88
  7. 600
    98526D
  8. 700
    843F5B
  9. 800
    632E44
  10. 900
    492231
  11. 950
    2B151D

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #843F5B in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 4002 Red violet#933D50, very close (Ξ”E 3.4)Tailwind CSSpink-800 #9D174D, close (Ξ”E 7.2)CSS color namesbrown #A52A2A, close (Ξ”E 8.9)

Ξ”E 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 (Ξ”E in OKLab). Browse all shades of red or search the color library.