Bittersweet Shimmer Color Codes

Bittersweet Shimmer is a mid-tone, muted red with the hex code #BF4F51, RGB values of 191, 79, 81 and an HSL value of hsl(359, 47%, 53%).

HEX	#BF4F51
RGB	191, 79, 81
HSL	hsl(359, 47%, 53%)
HSV	359°, 59%, 75%
CMYK	0%, 59%, 58%, 25%
LAB	48.59, 45.19, 21.86
CIELCHuv	48.59, 84.06, 11.48°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 703 C ΔE 8.4 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: indianred ΔE 4.8

Community source color-name-list, community color-name index

Bittersweet Shimmer Color Hex Code

The Bittersweet Shimmer color hex code is #BF4F51. Those six digits are three pairs, BF for red, 4F for green and 51 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#BF4F51

Bittersweet Shimmer Color RGB Code

The Bittersweet Shimmer RGB code is rgb(191, 79, 81). Red carries the most light at 191 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(191, 79, 81)

Bittersweet Shimmer Color HSV Code

The Bittersweet Shimmer HSV code is 359°, 59%, 75%. Read it as a hue of 359 degrees, 59% saturation and 75% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

359°, 59%, 75%

Bittersweet Shimmer Color CIELChuv Code

The Bittersweet Shimmer CIELCHuv code is 48.59, 84.06, 11.48°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 49 means mid-toned to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 84 is how far it sits from grey.

48.59, 84.06, 11.48°

Tonal scale

What are Bittersweet Shimmer Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

Open in the shades & tints generator →

Palettes

What are Bittersweet Shimmer Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #BF4F51. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Half a turn away is #4FBFBD, a light, muted teal. This is the widest separation the wheel offers, and the reason complementary pairs are the default for anything that must stand out. Neither is especially saturated, so this pairing stays calm enough for large areas of both.

Analogous

Either side sit #BF4F89 and #BF854F, 30 degrees out. Low tension by construction: useful when you need several related tones that still feel like one choice.

Triadic

#51BF4F and #4F51BF complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #4FBF85 and #4F89BF. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #4FBFBD, and #89BF4F with #854FBF. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

4.72:1

4.72

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Black background

4.45:1

4.45

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Fails	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Fails
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Bittersweet Shimmer clears WCAG AA against white at 4.72:1, so it is safe for body copy as well as headings. Text placed on it should be white, which gives 4.72:1.

Check Bittersweet Shimmer against another color →

Color vision

How Bittersweet Shimmer looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men

actual

#9B9A51

Bittersweet Shimmer changes substantially here. ΔE 59.5

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#A1A750

Bittersweet Shimmer changes substantially here. ΔE 66.2

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000

actual

#BB5050

Bittersweet Shimmer holds up almost unchanged here. ΔE 2.1

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000

actual

#737373

Bittersweet Shimmer changes substantially here. ΔE 50.2

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

To a deuteranope, the most common form, Bittersweet Shimmer reads as #A1A750. That is a shift of ΔE 66.2, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. It sits in the red end of the spectrum, which is exactly where red-green deficiency does its damage. Never pair it with a green of similar lightness to signal a difference in meaning: to a large minority the two become one color. The widest shift is under deuteranopia, at ΔE 66.2. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

Simulate a whole palette →

Snippets

Using Bittersweet Shimmer in code

:root {
  --bittersweet-shimmer: #BF4F51;
}

.example {
  color: var(--bittersweet-shimmer);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'bittersweet-shimmer': '#BF4F51',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let bittersweetShimmer = Color(
    red: 0.749,
    green: 0.310,
    blue: 0.318
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="bittersweet_shimmer">#BF4F51</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const bittersweetShimmer = Color(0xFFBF4F51);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Bittersweet Shimmer Color?

Bittersweet Shimmer reads as warmth and confidence. It is saturated enough to notice and restrained enough to repeat, and at 47% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 49 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Bittersweet Shimmer Color?

The closest CSS keyword is IndianRed (#CD5C5C), though it is not a match: Delta-E 4.8 means the difference is visible side by side. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 703 C at #B73844. The name Bittersweet Shimmer comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Bittersweet Shimmer Color Made?

On a screen Bittersweet Shimmer is made by additive light: 191 red, 79 green and 81 blue out of 255, with red leading and 79 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 59%, 58%, 25%. Starting from the pure hue at 359 degrees, Bittersweet Shimmer is close to the pure hue, with little white or black in it.