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Color#812252rgb(129, 34, 82) · red

#812252 color

Values, variations, harmonies, an accessible palette and ready-to-paste CSS for #812252.

Color values

The same color written in every notation you are likely to need. Click any row to copy it.

What HEX means

#812252 packs three channels into hexadecimal pairs from 00 to FF: 81 red, 22 green, 52 blue.

What RGB means

Red 129, green 34, blue 82 — each from 0 to 255. It is the same color as the hex above, just in decimal.

What HSL means

Hue 330° (red), saturation 58%, lightness 32%. HSL is handy when you want the same hue a little lighter or less saturated.

Why OKLCH

OKLCH is a perceptual space — changing its lightness (41.9%) matches how your eye reads brightness far better than HSL, which is why the palette below is generated in it.

Accessibility & contrast

WCAG requires at least 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text at level AA. Use this to decide whether white or black text belongs on this color.

AaThis text is readable
White text9.19:1
AA AAA AA Large
AaThis text is readable
Black text2.28:1
AA AAA AA Large

Closest accessible alternative

Nudged in lightness to reach 4.5:1 while keeping the hue as close as possible.

Aa

For black text

#b65380

4.54:1

UI preview

How this color behaves in a real interface, not just as a square.

Badge

A paragraph with a themed link inside it.

Information

An alert accented with this color.

Progress

Tints & shades

A tint mixes the color toward white; a shade mixes it toward black. Click any swatch to open it.

Color harmonies

Schemes built by rotating the hue around the color wheel — the starting point for a coherent palette.

Complementary

Opposite on the wheel — maximum contrast.

Analogous

Neighbours on the wheel — calm and cohesive.

Triadic

Three hues 120° apart — vivid but balanced.

Split complementary

Softer than a straight complement.

Tetradic

Four hues — enough for a design system.

Palette generator

A Tailwind-style 50–950 ramp anchored on this color at step 500, generated in OKLCH so the steps feel evenly spaced.

:root {
  --primary-50: #ffedf9;
  --primary-100: #ffdef0;
  --primary-200: #ffc3dd;
  --primary-300: #f8a4c6;
  --primary-400: #de7fa7;
  --primary-500: #812252;
  --primary-600: #a0416d;
  --primary-700: #842e58;
  --primary-800: #6c2045;
  --primary-900: #591738;
  --primary-950: #340c1f;
}

Gradient

A linear blend from this color to its complement, with the CSS ready to paste.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #812252, #228152);

Nearest named colors

The closest matches from a corpus of about 31,900 named colours, ranked by ΔE (CIEDE2000) — a measure of how different two colours look. ΔE under 1 is nearly indistinguishable; around 10 is clearly different.

CSS code

Every common way to use this color in a stylesheet or a component.

color: #812252;
background-color: #812252;
:root {
  --color-primary: #812252;
}
color: rgb(129 34 82);
color: oklch(41.9% 0.1372 353.78);
<div class="bg-[#812252]">…</div>