#2C0000

A very dark, vivid neutral closely aligning with Black.

About #2C0000

When working with digital screens, the color #2C0000 is rendered by mixing light. If you're using CSS, you might find it aligns closely with Black. Its digital footprint relies on 44 parts red, 0 parts green, and 0 parts blue light.

If you are designing for print, the four-color process is what matters most. To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 0% cyan and 100% magenta inks. With a hue angle of 0.0 degrees, it sits comfortably in the neutral spectrum.

Ensuring your text is legible against this background is a key part of web design. Because it is a very dark color, it is generally recommended to use #FFFFFF text. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#2C0000
RGB44, 0, 0
HSL0.0°, 100.0%, 8.6%
CMYK0%, 100%, 100%, 83%
HSV0.0°, 100.0%, 17.3%
LAB4.8, 21.1, 7.6
XYZ1.0, 0.5, 0.0
Decimal2883584

Color Harmonies

Complementary

Analogous

Triadic

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

Shades (Adding Black)

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

18.97:1
Text on #FFFFFF
AAA
1.11:1
Text on #000000
FAIL
18.13:1
Text on #F8FAFC
AAA
1.06:1
Text on #0F172A
FAIL

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #2C0000; }
.text-color { color: #2C0000; }
.border-color { border: 2px solid #2C0000; }

Similar Colors

Black
#000000