Rose Red #BE013C

About this color

#BE013C is a medium-dark, vivid red. In OKLCH its lightness is 51%, its chroma 0.203 and its hue 16°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Rose Red. White text reads best on it, at 6.44:1.

Colors that go with Rose Red

Matches found by rotating Rose Red around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Rose Red

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Rose Red, closest first.

• Mistletoe Feast
• Evergreen Lights
• Evergreen Feast
• Cranberry and Holly
• Candy Cane and Ribbon
• Gallery Print
• Gravestone Feast
• Cauldron Feast

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Rose Red, with their ΔE distance.

• Lipstick Red #C0022F ΔE 0.017
• Ruby #CA0147 ΔE 0.028
• Scarlet #BE0119 ΔE 0.036
• Raspberry #B00149 ΔE 0.037
• Cherry #CF0234 ΔE 0.038
• Rouge #AB1239 ΔE 0.038
• Firebrick #B22222 ΔE 0.045
• Lipstick #D5174E ΔE 0.055

More about Rose Red

• Shades of red
• What red means

How to make Rose Red

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 3 parts red
• 1 part purple

Recipe result: #BA2A34, a difference of ΔE 0.035 from Rose Red. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make red? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Rose Red in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Rose Red

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 700.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FEF2F2

   oklch(97.1% 0.013 17.4)

2. Step 100

   100

   #FCE3E3

   oklch(93.6% 0.028 17.7)

3. Step 200

   200

   #FBCBCD

   oklch(88.4% 0.055 15.4)

4. Step 300

   300

   #F9A7AB

   oklch(80.9% 0.097 16.2)

5. Step 400

   400

   #F2727F

   oklch(70.7% 0.158 15.7)

6. Step 500

   500

   #E9435F

   oklch(63.1% 0.201 15.7)

7. Step 600

   600

   #D40B45

   oklch(55.5% 0.218 16)

8. Step 700

   700 (this color)

   #BE013C

   oklch(50.9% 0.203 15.9)

9. Step 800

   800

   #95042E

   oklch(42.7% 0.168 15.8)

10. Step 900

    900

    #781629

    oklch(37.8% 0.131 16)

11. Step 950

    950

    #471018

    oklch(27.1% 0.083 16.4)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Rose Red with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.