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#AA3333

Raging Raisin #AA3333 RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Raging Raisin (#AA3333) is a vivid, medium red. In RGB it is made of 67% red, 20% green and 20% blue (R 170, G 51, B 51). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 0°, 54% saturation and 43% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.112, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 70% magenta, 70% yellow and 33% 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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Raging Raisin color codes

#AA3333 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #AA3333 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(170, 51, 51) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(0, 54%, 43%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(0, 70%, 67%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(0 20% 33%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 70%, 70%, 33%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(50% 0.1553 24.73) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(50% 0.1411 0.065) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(40.44% 49.09 29.29) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(40.44% 57.16 30.83) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.6151 0.2357 0.2192) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.1836 0.1115 0.0432) Valid CSS
Decimal 11154227 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1115. Nearest web-safe color: #993333.

Mix Raging Raisin with other colors

See what #AA3333 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.

Use Raging Raisin 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--raging-raisin: #AA3333;
Sass variable$raging-raisin: #AA3333;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-raging-raisin: #AA3333; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'raging-raisin': '#AA3333' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.667, green: 0.2, blue: 0.2)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.667, green: 0.2, blue: 0.2, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="raging_raisin">#FFAA3333</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFAA3333)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #AA3333 (6.50:1, AA). Here is how #AA3333 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
6.50:1 on white
APCA Lc 81
AA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
3.23:1 on black
APCA Lc -21
AA LargeTry #C54C49

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 Raging Raisin

#AA3333 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

#AA3333 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.

Raging Raisin in a user interface

A sample app screen with #AA3333 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #AA3333 as it is. On the dark theme, #AA3333 is too hard to read as text (2.73:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #D35955 there (4.51:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Raging Raisin

These schemes turn the hue of #AA3333 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

Analogous

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

Open palette

Triadic

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

Open palette

Split complementary

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

Open palette

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette

Square

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

Open palette

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette

Gradients with Raging Raisin

Four CSS gradients made from #AA3333. 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, #F2D7D4, #AA3333);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #AA3333, #2D0707);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #AA336F, #AA3333, #AA6F33);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #AA3333, #8B7735, #33AA33);

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Shades, tints and tones of Raging Raisin

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)

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

  1. 50
    FFF4F3
  2. 100
    FFE6E4
  3. 200
    FFCDC8
  4. 300
    FFA59E
  5. 400
    F17A74
  6. 500
    D35955
  7. 600
    AA3333
  8. 700
    942A2A
  9. 800
    771D1E
  10. 900
    581515
  11. 950
    33100F

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #AA3333 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

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.