Crimson color: hex codes, shades and palettes

Palettes built around crimson. Click any swatch to copy its hex code.

Crimson is #DC143C, vivid red. Below are its shades with hex codes, the values in every common format, and crimson color palettes to copy.

Crimson hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#DC143C

HEX: #DC143C
RGB: rgb(220, 20, 60)
HSL: hsl(348, 83%, 47%)
OKLCH: oklch(57.1% 0.222 20.1)
On white: 4.99:1
On black: 4.21:1

Shades of crimson

9 steps from one base color, generated in OKLCH so each step is an equal perceived step rather than an equal numeric one. Click a swatch to copy it.

Crimson color values

#DC143Crgb(220, 20, 60)

Color spaces of #dc143c
RGB	220	20	60
HSL	348°	83%	47%
HSV	348°	91%	86%
CMYK	0.00	0.91	0.73	0.14
XYZ	30.5847	16.0473	5.7612
Yxy	16.0473	0.5838	0.3063
CIE-Lab	47.0364	70.9211	33.5997
Hunter Lab	40.0590	66.1797	19.5144
OKLCH	57.1%	0.222	20.1°

#DC143C is 220 red, 20 green and 60 blue. Its red channel carries the most of it. The nearest of the 216 web safe colors is #CC0033.

CIE-Lab, XYZ and Yxy are measured against D65, the white point sRGB itself is defined against. Hunter Lab uses the original illuminant C constants, which is what paint and plastics specifications quote, so the two Lab rows are not directly comparable. CMYK is the plain arithmetic conversion: real ink values depend on the press, the paper and the profile.

Base numbers
Base	Red	Green	Blue
Binary	11011100	00010100	00111100
Octal	334	24	74
Decimal	220	20	60
Hex	DC	14	3C

#dc143c mixed with black

Ten even steps of the classic shade ramp, worked out in RGB, which is how the term has always been defined and how other references list it. The OKLCH scale further down this page answers a different question: it steps by equal perceived amounts, so its values are not the same.

#DC143C
#C61236
#B01030
#9A0E2A
#840C24
#6E0A1E
#580818
#420612
#2B030B
#150105
#000000

#dc143c mixed with white

The tint ramp, by the same rule in the other direction.

#DC143C
#DF2B4F
#E34363
#E65A76
#EA728A
#ED899D
#F1A1B1
#F4B8C4
#F8D0D8
#FBE7EB
#FFFFFF

Channel shares

Red73.3%
Green6.7%
Blue20.0%

Color schemes

Turned in OKLCH rather than HSL, so every member keeps the lightness and chroma of the original instead of one of them arriving washed out.

Complementary

#DC143C
#00888E

Triadic

#DC143C
#299000
#126DF7

Analogous

#DC143C
#BB5700
#CE1F89

Monochromatic

#360007
#6A0016
#A20027
#DC143C
#FF5B66
#FFA5A5
#FFE0DF

#dc143c on black and on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 4.21:1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 4.99:1

Body text needs 4.5:1 to meet AA and large text needs 3:1, so a ratio tells you which of the two backgrounds this color can be read on, and at what size.

CSS for #dc143c

color: #dc143c;
background-color: #dc143c;
border: 3px solid #dc143c;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px 2px #dc143c;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(220, 20, 60, 0.8);

/* Perceptually even, and what a modern stylesheet wants */
color: oklch(57.1% 0.222 20.1);

The OKLCH form is the same color stated so that lightening or darkening it moves by an amount the eye agrees with. Every current browser understands it.

Contrast and readability

Crimson on white measures 4.99:1 and on black 4.21:1. WCAG AA asks for 4.5:1 on normal text and 3:1 on large text and UI components, so the higher of those two decides which background it belongs on. In the scale above, 500 is the first to clear 4.5:1 on white, at 5.92:1.

The contrast checker reports every level for a given pair and suggests the nearest passing shade on the same hue. The color picker builds this same scale from any color you paste in.

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