#CF634Da warm medium scarlet

At a glance#CF634D, oklch(62.6% 0.142 33.0), is a warm medium scarlet, close to Enshūcha Red #CB6649 or Southwestern Clay #CC6758. Pair it with a cool bold blue #4677CA as an accent, a warm light gold #EBC680 for harmony, and a warm dusty red #9E8B87 as a neutral. Try it as a brand or accent color, and it takes black text at AA contrast and reproduces faithfully on coated presses.
Color codes

#CF634D in RGB, HSL, OKLCH & more

Ready to ship: every line pastes straight into your codebase, and the whole file copies at once.

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:root { /* how your code speaks it */ /* how your eyes measure it */ /* how the lab measures it, D65 2° */}/* tailwind v4 */

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Color family

What kind of orange is #CF634D?

Every color has a place in the standard vocabulary. This is #CF634D's, measured rather than asserted.

#CF634D's Munsell numbers: hue 8.4R, value 5.4 (how light), chroma 10.0 (how vivid). That places it in ISCC-NBS block moderate reddish orange, one of 267 named ranges the standard sorts every color into. Chroma 10.0 is moderate. Clearly colored, but not so saturated it fights the colors around it.

There's still some room before it hits the edge of what your screen can show for this hue. It could go a little more saturated and stay in gamut.

Munsell coordinates and block from the ISCC-NBS system, computed by Rhapsody's own renotation inversion.

Tints & shades

Shades of #CF634D, lighter and darker

For hover states, washed backgrounds, and dark surfaces that still read as #CF634D. 13 steps, spaced evenly by eye, with the color itself sitting at its natural depth, scarlet-500.

Tints (light surfaces; dark text passes on every one)

Midtones (the color at full strength, for brand & accent work)

Shades (dark surfaces; light text passes on every one)

Rhapsody Palette

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Accessibility

Is #CF634D accessible? Contrast with white & black

Strong contrast makes your work readable by everyone, and meets the WCAG standard accessibility law points at. AA is the floor; AAA is the tier worth aiming for in body text. Black text on #CF634D passes AA. For AAA, use its scale. Every strip below is one surface, and the marks are the steps that reach AAA on it.

Rows are text, columns are background · 62 of 210 pairings reach WCAG 2.2 AAA, shown here.

Rhapsody Palette

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Run #CF634D against the colors you actually ship, every pairing and any target, and export it: exact ratios, the AA tier, APCA, in one file.

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The audit on the right was calibrated from #CF634D, like this whole page.

Print

#CF634D in CMYK: one value for files, one per press

Every held press standard prints this color exactly as it is.

In CMYK, #CF634D is . That is the value design tools and file formats use when no press is involved.

On press (what each standard prints)

CGATS21 CRPC1 (coldset news) shifts on press
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 6.8, 2.7× the 2.5 a run varies by

GRACoL 2013 Uncoated (CRPC3) within tolerance
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 2.1, under the 2.5 a press run varies by

GRACoL 2013 (CRPC6) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

PSO Coated v3 (FOGRA51) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

Coated FOGRA39 prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

Japan Color 2011 Coated prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

APTEC Flexo Coated prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

CGATS21 CRPC7 (extended gamut) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

Press values computed through the ICC characterization data each standard proofs against. Each CMYK held to prints the color exactly.

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The strip shows this page's tints and shades on screen, then through a standard GRACoL 2013 conversion.

The Scarlets

Colors similar to #CF634D

This color sits in The Scarlets, close to the border with The Reds. Explore The Scarlets

Named colors near this one: Enshūcha Red #CB6649 (via color-name-list) · Southwestern Clay #CC6758 (via color-name-list) · Arabesque #CD5F42 (via color-name-list) · Japanese Kimono #CC6358 (via color-name-list) · Track and Field #D66352 (via color-name-list)

Pairings

Colors that go with #CF634D

The complementary color, straight across the wheel, is a cool light blue #5D9AC4. Rhapsody's pick is the split complement, just to one side of it, a livelier pair.

The accent is for the moments that need attention, the harmony for the ones that need calm; the neutral carries the text and surfaces in between.

Downloads

Take #CF634D with you

The work on this page doesn't stay here. Save a card and the color arrives in your file, your deck or your board already decided.

#CF634D color codes: hex #CF634D, RGB, HSL, CMYK, and OKLCH, from Rhapsody
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The full tonal scale of #CF634D, 13 steps from light to dark with every hex, from Rhapsody
Reach for the right depth instead of the one you have.
#CF634D paired with a cool bold blue #4677CA, a warm light gold #EBC680, a warm dusty red #9E8B87: hex values and roles, from Rhapsody
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This page's whole theme is built from one color. Palette does the same for yours: every step calibrated, every pairing checked, press included.

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