Rouge #AB1239

About this color

#AB1239 is a medium-dark, vivid red. In OKLCH its lightness is 48%, its chroma 0.182 and its hue 16°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Rouge. White text reads best on it, at 7.29:1.

Colors that go with Rouge

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

Color palettes with Rouge

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Rouge, 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 Rouge, with their ΔE distance.

• Raspberry #B00149 ΔE 0.028
• Cranberry #9E003A ΔE 0.034
• Brown #A52A2A ΔE 0.037
• Rose Red #BE013C ΔE 0.038
• Firebrick #B22222 ΔE 0.040
• Auburn #9B2226 ΔE 0.043
• Lipstick Red #C0022F ΔE 0.044
• Rufous #AE2012 ΔE 0.047

More about Rouge

• Shades of red
• What red means

How to make Rouge

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.

• 2 parts red
• 1 part purple

Recipe result: #A92C39, a difference of ΔE 0.029 from Rouge. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make red? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Rouge 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 Rouge

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

   #FDF2F3

   oklch(97% 0.012 11)

2. Step 100

   100

   #FBE3E4

   oklch(93.6% 0.026 14.7)

3. Step 200

   200

   #F8CDCE

   oklch(88.6% 0.049 16.5)

4. Step 300

   300

   #F4AAAE

   oklch(81% 0.087 15.6)

5. Step 400

   400

   #EB7983

   oklch(70.8% 0.141 15.8)

6. Step 500

   500

   #E05064

   oklch(63.1% 0.179 15.7)

7. Step 600

   600

   #CC2A4B

   oklch(55.6% 0.196 15.8)

8. Step 700

   700 (this color)

   #AB1239

   oklch(47.8% 0.182 15.6)

9. Step 800

   800

   #8F1A32

   oklch(42.7% 0.151 15.8)

10. Step 900

    900

    #731E2C

    oklch(37.7% 0.118 15.6)

11. Step 950

    950

    #44131A

    oklch(27% 0.075 15.3)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Rouge 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.