Photo in the color Maroon (X11)
Pictured: Maroon (X11)
rgb(176, 48, 96)
#B03060

Maroon #B03060 RGB Color Code

Also known as Rich Maroon

Maroon (#B03060) is a vivid, medium red. In RGB it is made of 69% red, 19% green and 38% blue (R 176, G 48, B 96). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 338Β°, 57% saturation and 44% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.122, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 73% magenta, 45% yellow and 31% 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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Maroon color codes

#B03060 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #B03060 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(176, 48, 96) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(338, 57%, 44%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(338, 73%, 69%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(338 19% 31%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 73%, 45%, 31%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(51.77% 0.1677 2.38) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(51.77% 0.1676 0.007) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(41.98% 54.41 3.55) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(41.98% 54.53 3.73) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.6361 0.2293 0.3751) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.2107 0.1219 0.1231) Valid CSS
Decimal 11546720 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1219. Nearest web-safe color: #993366.

Mix Maroon with other colors

See what #B03060 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.

PaintMaroon and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightMaroon and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintMaroon and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalMaroon blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Maroon 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--maroon: #B03060;
Sass variable$maroon: #B03060;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-maroon: #B03060; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'maroon': '#B03060' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.69, green: 0.188, blue: 0.376)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.69, green: 0.188, blue: 0.376, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="maroon">#FFB03060</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFB03060)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #B03060 (6.11:1, AA). Here is how #B03060 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
6.11:1 on white
APCA Lc 79
AA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
3.44:1 on black
APCA Lc -22
AA LargeTry #C64572

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 Maroon

#B03060 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

#B03060 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 Maroon

Two colors with one name

Ask for maroon in a web page and you get #800000, a dark brown red. The code on this page, #B03060, is the maroon of the X11 color list instead. X11 is the window system used on Linux and other Unix computers, and it came with its own list of color names.

The first web browsers, Mosaic and Netscape Navigator, were X11 programs and borrowed that list. When the web's standards group wrote the official color keywords, it kept maroon as #800000 from the 16 basic colors of HTML 3.2. That left the word with two meanings, as the article on X11 color names explains.

Since 2014, X11 accepts both. X11 Maroon means #B03060, and Web Maroon means #800000. Wikipedia calls the X11 shade rich maroon, and this site also lists the same code as rich maroon. The web version is maroon (HTML/CSS).

Four numbered maroons

Like many X11 names, maroon comes in numbered versions. Maroon1 is a hot pink, #FF34B3. Maroon2 and maroon3 get darker step by step, and maroon4 is a deep plum, #8B1C62. None of them look much like the brownish maroon most people picture.

Named after a nut

The word comes from the French marron, a chestnut. English speakers began using maroon for a color in 1789, according to Maerz and Paul's A Dictionary of Color of 1930. White text on the X11 shade reaches a contrast ratio of 6.11 to 1.

Maroon in a user interface

A sample app screen with #B03060 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #B03060 as it is. On the dark theme, #B03060 is too hard to read as text (2.91:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #D4527E there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Maroon

These schemes turn the hue of #B03060 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#B03060#30B080

Analogous

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

Open palette
#B030A0this#B03060#B04030

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#B03060#60B030#3060B0

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#B03060#30B040#30A0B0

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#B03060#B08030#30B080#3060B0

Square

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

Open palette
this#B03060#A0B030#30B080#4030B0

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#50162C#91284F#CB4175#DD82A4#EFC3D3

Gradients with Maroon

Four CSS gradients made from #B03060. 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, #F4D6DD, #B03060);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #B03060, #2E0615);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #B030A0, #B03060, #B04030);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #B03060, #997A51, #60B030);

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Shades, tints and tones of Maroon

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)

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

  1. 50
    FFF3F6
  2. 100
    FFE5EB
  3. 200
    FFCBD7
  4. 300
    FFA1BA
  5. 400
    F2739A
  6. 500
    D3527E
  7. 600
    B03060
  8. 700
    94214E
  9. 800
    77153C
  10. 900
    58102C
  11. 950
    330E1A

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #B03060 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 3027 Raspberry red#B42041, very close (Ξ”E 4.4)Tailwind CSSpink-700 #BE185D, very close (Ξ”E 3.2)CSS color namesbrown #A52A2A, close (Ξ”E 7.6)

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.