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Burgundy Color Codes

Burgundy is a dark, vivid red with the hex code #800020, RGB values of 128, 0, 32 and an HSL value of hsl(345, 100%, 25%).

HEX#800020
RGB128, 0, 32
HSLhsl(345, 100%, 25%)
HSV345°, 100%, 50%
CMYK0%, 100%, 75%, 50%
LAB25.85, 48.89, 21.30
CIELCHuv25.85, 79.10, 7.08°
Nearest Pantone
PMS 194 C ΔE 8.7 · approximate
Nearest CSS name
brown ΔE 14.9

Source Wikipedia, List of colors (cites Maerz and Paul)

Burgundy Color Hex Code

The Burgundy color hex code is #800020. Those six digits are three pairs, 80 for red, 00 for green and 20 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#800020

Burgundy Color RGB Code

The Burgundy RGB code is rgb(128, 0, 32). Red carries the most light at 128 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(128, 0, 32)

Burgundy Color HSV Code

The Burgundy HSV code is 345°, 100%, 50%. Read it as a hue of 345 degrees, 100% saturation and 50% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

345°, 100%, 50%

Burgundy Color CIELChuv Code

The Burgundy CIELCHuv code is 25.85, 79.10, 7.08°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 26 means dark to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 79 is how far it sits from grey.

25.85, 79.10, 7.08°

Tonal scale

What are Burgundy 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

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Palettes

What are Burgundy Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #800020. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Half a turn away is #008060, a mid-tone, vivid spring green. This is the widest separation the wheel offers, and the reason complementary pairs are the default for anything that must stand out. Both are saturated, so give the complement much less area than the base or the two will fight.

Analogous

Either side sit #800060 and #802000, 30 degrees out. Low tension by construction: useful when you need several related tones that still feel like one choice.

Triadic

#208000 and #002080 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: #008020 and #006080. 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 #008060, and #608000 with #200080. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.

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Accessibility

Contrast checker: is Burgundy accessible?

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

10.83:1

10.83

contrast ratio on white background

ElementAAAAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 Passes Passes
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 Passes Passes
UI component needs 3:1 Passes n/a

Black background

1.94:1

1.94

contrast ratio on black background

ElementAAAAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 Fails Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 Fails Fails
UI component needs 3:1 Fails n/a

Burgundy clears WCAG AA against white at 10.83:1, so it is safe for body copy as well as headings. Text placed on it should be white, which gives 10.83:1. It is a highly saturated color, so it will dominate anything it sits beside. Give it space rather than surrounding it with other strong colors.

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Color vision

How Burgundy 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

#62611B

Burgundy changes substantially here. ΔE 62.0

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

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men
actual

#676C1A

Burgundy changes substantially here. ΔE 67.8

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

#7D1615

Burgundy shifts slightly here. ΔE 9.9

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

#3D3D3D

Burgundy changes substantially here. ΔE 53.3

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, Burgundy reads as #676C1A. That is a shift of ΔE 67.8, 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 67.8. 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.

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Snippets

Using Burgundy in code

:root {
  --burgundy: #800020;
}

.example {
  color: var(--burgundy);
}