Crimson

#ca3949

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

Crimson is a mid red that reads confident. A mid red this confident is a natural for retail signage and calls to action. It pairs naturally with muted greens across the wheel and with off white for breathing room.

Crimson color values

Every conversion for #ca3949, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ca3949

RGB202, 57, 73

HSL353, 58%, 51%

HSV353, 72%, 79%

CMYK0%, 72%, 64%, 21%

Lab46.93, 57.54, 24.87

XYZ27.02, 15.96, 7.96

Decimal13252937

Web safe#cc3333

Pantone199 C

Shades of crimson

#ba3241 #a82d3b #962834 #84232e #721f28 #601a22 #4e151b #3c1015 #2a0b0f #180608

Tints of crimson

#cf4b5a #d45e6b #d9707c #de838d #e3959e #e8a7ae #ecbabf #f1ccd0 #f6dfe1 #fbf1f2

Colors that go with crimson

Complementary#39caba Analogous#ca3991 Analogous#ca7139 Triadic#49ca39 Triadic#3949ca Split complementary#39ca71 Split complementary#3992ca

Crimson in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 72, 64, 21.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ca3949 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 72 64 21

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 70 63 27

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.

Crimson in css

Copy #ca3949 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ca3949; }
.text { color: #ca3949; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ca3949; }

How crimson looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Crimson and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #ca3949 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ca3949 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Crimson on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #ca3949 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn crimson into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #ca3949 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 crimson, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #ca3949 is computed, not guessed. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.