Photo in the color Old lavender
Pictured: Old lavender, the closest color we have a photo of (#796878)
rgb(113, 102, 117)
#716675

Rum #716675 RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Rum (#716675) is a medium neutral gray. In RGB it is made of 44% red, 40% green and 46% blue (R 113, G 102, B 117). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 284°, 7% saturation and 43% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.143, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 3% cyan, 13% magenta, 0% yellow and 54% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a neutral color. It goes well with warm oranges and reds for contrast. For a calm, matching look, use nearby cool tones.

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Rum color codes

#716675 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #716675 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(113, 102, 117) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(284, 7%, 43%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(284, 13%, 46%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(284 40% 54%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(3%, 13%, 0%, 54%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(52.57% 0.0267 317.07) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(52.57% 0.0196 -0.0182) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(44.63% 6.76 -6.78) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(44.63% 9.57 314.92) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.4359 0.4015 0.4546) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.1477 0.143 0.1881) Valid CSS
Decimal 7431797 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1430. Nearest web-safe color: #666666.

Mix Rum with other colors

See what #716675 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.

PaintRum and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightRum and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintRum and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalRum blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Rum 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--rum: #716675;
Sass variable$rum: #716675;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-rum: #716675; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'rum': '#716675' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.443, green: 0.4, blue: 0.459)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.443, green: 0.4, blue: 0.459, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="rum">#FF716675</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF716675)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #716675 (5.44:1, AA). Here is how #716675 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
5.44:1 on white
APCA Lc 77
AA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
3.86:1 on black
APCA Lc -25
AA LargeTry #7C7080

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 Rum

#716675 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

#716675 has almost no hue, so it looks much the same with every type of color blindness. Only its lightness counts. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Rum

A puzzling name

Rum is a strong drink made from sugarcane. You might expect a color called rum to be brown or amber. The rum on this site is #716675, a grayish purple. It comes from an open list of color names online, and that list does not explain the name or give a source for the code.

Wikipedia's rum is brown

The alphabetical list of colors on Wikipedia gives rum as #9A4E40, a reddish brown. That fits the drink much better, but it does not match the code here at all. The same list also has red rum, #973A4A.

The closest named color to this page is old lavender. Mauve taupe is a warmer cousin.

Rum in a user interface

A sample app screen with #716675 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #716675 as it is. On the dark theme, #716675 is too hard to read as text (3.26:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #887C8C there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Rum

These schemes turn the hue of #716675 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#716675#6A7566

Analogous

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

Open palette
#6A6675this#716675#756672

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#716675#757166#667571

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#716675#727566#66756A

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#716675#75666A#6A7566#667571

Square

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

Open palette
this#716675#756A66#6A7566#667275

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#353036#5F5663#8A7E8E#B2AAB5#DAD6DB

Gradients with Rum

Four CSS gradients made from #716675. 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, #E1DFE2, #716675);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #716675, #1A171C);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #6A6675, #716675, #756672);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #716675, #736C6E, #757166);

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Shades, tints and tones of Rum

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)

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

  1. 50
    F9F5FB
  2. 100
    F0EAF2
  3. 200
    DFD7E2
  4. 300
    C7BDCA
  5. 400
    AA9EAE
  6. 500
    8D8191
  7. 600
    716675
  8. 700
    5B515E
  9. 800
    473F4A
  10. 900
    342E36
  11. 950
    1F1C20

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #716675 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 4012 Pearl blackberry#6B6880, nearly the same (ΔE 1.8)Tailwind CSSzinc-500 #71717A, very close (ΔE 3.1)CSS color namesdimgray #696969, very close (ΔE 2.7)

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 gray or search the color library.