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Pictured: Red (RYB), the closest color we have a photo of (#FE2712)
rgb(255, 28, 28)
#FF1C1C

Traffic Red #FF1C1C RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Traffic Red (#FF1C1C) is a very vivid, medium red. In RGB it is made of 100% red, 11% green and 11% blue (R 255, G 28, B 28). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 0°, 100% saturation and 55% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.222, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 89% magenta, 89% yellow and 0% 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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Traffic Red color codes

#FF1C1C in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #FF1C1C Valid CSS
RGB rgb(255, 28, 28) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(0, 100%, 55%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(0, 89%, 100%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(0 11% 0%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 89%, 89%, 0%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(63.55% 0.2501 28.34) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(63.55% 0.2201 0.1187) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(55.23% 78.55 61.87) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(55.23% 99.99 38.22) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.9185 0.2332 0.1846) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.4186 0.2218 0.0318) Valid CSS
Decimal 16718876 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.2217. Nearest web-safe color: #FF3333.

Mix Traffic Red with other colors

See what #FF1C1C 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.

PaintTraffic Red and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightTraffic Red and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintTraffic Red and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalTraffic Red blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Traffic Red 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--traffic-red: #FF1C1C;
Sass variable$traffic-red: #FF1C1C;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-traffic-red: #FF1C1C; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'traffic-red': '#FF1C1C' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 1, green: 0.11, blue: 0.11)
UIKitUIColor(red: 1, green: 0.11, blue: 0.11, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="traffic_red">#FFFF1C1C</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFFF1C1C)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #FF1C1C (5.43:1, AA). Here is how #FF1C1C does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
3.86:1 on white
APCA Lc 64
AA LargeTry #EF000D
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
5.43:1 on black
APCA Lc -38
AA

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 Traffic Red

#FF1C1C 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

#FF1C1C 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 Traffic Red

RAL 3020

In paint, traffic red means RAL 3020, a strong red from the German RAL Classic chart. The Wikipedia list of RAL colors shows it as #C1121C. You can find it with its neighbors in our RAL color chart, which uses the same code.

The red stripe of the German flag is set as RAL 3020. The German government fixed the flag colors in its design rules of 1999, as the article on the flag of Germany explains. For screens, those rules use #D00000.

A lighter red on screen

The traffic red on this page is #FF1C1C. It is brighter and lighter than any of the codes above, close to a pure screen red. It comes from an open list of color names online, so it is not an official RAL value.

Black text on it has a contrast ratio of 5.43 to 1, while white text only gets 3.86 to 1. Similar bright reds include candy apple red and Ferrari red.

Traffic Red in a user interface

A sample app screen with #FF1C1C as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #FF1C1C as it is. On the light theme, #FF1C1C is too hard to read as text (3.86:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #EF000D there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Traffic Red

These schemes turn the hue of #FF1C1C 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#FF1C1C#1CFFFF

Analogous

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

Open palette
#FF1C8Ethis#FF1C1C#FF8E1C

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#FF1C1C#1CFF1C#1C1CFF

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#FF1C1C#1CFF8E#1C8EFF

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#FF1C1C#FFFF1C#1CFFFF#1C1CFF

Square

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

Open palette
this#FF1C1C#8EFF1C#1CFFFF#8E1CFF

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#660000#B90000#FF0D0D#FF6060#FFB3B3

Gradients with Traffic Red

Four CSS gradients made from #FF1C1C. 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, #FFDED9, #FF1C1C);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FF1C1C, #480202);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FF1C8E, #FF1C1C, #FF8E1C);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FF1C1C, #D0AA1E, #1CFF1C);

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Shades, tints and tones of Traffic Red

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)

Traffic Red sits at step 500. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF4F2
  2. 100
    FFE6E3
  3. 200
    FFCDC5
  4. 300
    FFA699
  5. 400
    FF6F60
  6. 500
    FF1C1C
  7. 600
    CB000A
  8. 700
    A30006
  9. 800
    820003
  10. 900
    610002
  11. 950
    3E0101

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #FF1C1C in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 3026 Luminous bright red#FF0000, nearly the same (ΔE 1.1)Tailwind CSSred-500 #EF4444, very close (ΔE 4.4)CSS color namesred #FF0000, nearly the same (ΔE 1.1)

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.