Dark red

#300e05

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for dark red, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Dark red is a dark red that reads dramatic. Dark reds this rich suit wine, leather and luxury labels. Cool greens and deep navies calm it down, while warm creams let it stay the loudest thing on the page.

Dark red color values

Every conversion for #300e05, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#300e05

RGB48, 14, 5

HSL13, 81%, 10%

HSV13, 90%, 19%

CMYK0%, 71%, 90%, 81%

Lab8.6, 16.64, 11.19

XYZ1.4, 0.95, 0.25

Decimal3149317

Web safe#330000

Pantone4975 C

Shades of dark red

#2a0c04 #260b04 #220a04 #1e0903

Tints of dark red

#581a09 #80250d #a73111 #cf3c16 #e95028 #ed7150 #f19178 #f5b19f #f9d2c7 #fdf2ef

Colors that go with dark red

Complementary#052730 Analogous#300511 Analogous#302305 Triadic#05300e Triadic#0e0530 Split complementary#053023 Split complementary#051130

Dark red in print

It runs deep in print, so a rich black build underneath keeps it from looking flat. The cmyk build is 0, 71, 90, 81.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #300e05 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 71 90 81

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 69 87 87

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Dark red in css

Copy #300e05 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #300e05; }
.text { color: #300e05; }
.border { border: 2px solid #300e05; }

How dark red looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Dark red and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #300e05 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #300e05 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Dark red on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #300e05 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around dark red? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn dark red into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #300e05 and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from dark red, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #300e05 are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.