Ponceau Color Codes

Ponceau is a mid-tone, vivid red with the hex code #F75C75, RGB values of 247, 92, 117 and an HSL value of hsl(350, 91%, 66%).

HEX	#F75C75
RGB	247, 92, 117
HSL	hsl(350, 91%, 66%)
HSV	350°, 63%, 97%
CMYK	0%, 63%, 53%, 3%
LAB	60.53, 60.97, 18.30
CIELCHuv	60.53, 111.40, 5.58°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 184 C ΔE 3.5 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: indianred ΔE 18.1

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

Ponceau Color Hex Code

The Ponceau color hex code is #F75C75. Those six digits are three pairs, F7 for red, 5C for green and 75 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#F75C75

Ponceau Color RGB Code

The Ponceau RGB code is rgb(247, 92, 117). Red carries the most light at 247 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(247, 92, 117)

Ponceau Color HSV Code

The Ponceau HSV code is 350°, 63%, 97%. Read it as a hue of 350 degrees, 63% saturation and 97% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

350°, 63%, 97%

Ponceau Color CIELChuv Code

The Ponceau CIELCHuv code is 60.53, 111.40, 5.58°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 61 means mid-toned to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 111 is how far it sits from grey.

60.53, 111.40, 5.58°

Tonal scale

What are Ponceau 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 Ponceau Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #F75C75. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Half a turn away is #5CF7DE, a very light, vivid teal. 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 #F75CC3 and #F7915C, 30 degrees out. Low tension by construction: useful when you need several related tones that still feel like one choice.

Triadic

#75F75C and #5C75F7 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: #5CF791 and #5CC3F7. 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 #5CF7DE, and #C3F75C with #915CF7. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat the darkest of the four 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

3.11:1

3.11

contrast ratio on white 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

Black background

6.74:1

6.74

contrast ratio on black 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

Against white Ponceau reaches 3.11:1, enough for large text and UI borders, but short of the 4.5:1 that body copy needs. Darken it for anything set small. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 6.74:1. 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.

Check Ponceau against another color →

Color vision

How Ponceau 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

#C7C670

Ponceau changes substantially here. ΔE 79.0

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

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#CFD86E

Ponceau changes substantially here. ΔE 88.4

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

#F26B6A

Ponceau shifts noticeably here. ΔE 12.3

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

#929292

Ponceau changes substantially here. ΔE 63.7

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, Ponceau reads as #CFD86E. That is a shift of ΔE 88.4, 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 88.4. 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 Ponceau in code

:root {
  --ponceau: #F75C75;
}

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

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'ponceau': '#F75C75',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let ponceau = Color(
    red: 0.969,
    green: 0.361,
    blue: 0.459
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="ponceau">#F75C75</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const ponceau = Color(0xFFF75C75);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Ponceau Color?

Ponceau reads as urgency, appetite and alarm. It is saturated enough to dominate anything it sits beside, and at 91% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 61 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Ponceau Color?

The closest CSS keyword is IndianRed (#CD5C5C), though it is not a match: Delta-E 18.1 means the difference is visible side by side. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 184 C at #FC5E72. The name Ponceau comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Ponceau Color Made?

On a screen Ponceau is made by additive light: 247 red, 92 green and 117 blue out of 255, with red leading and 92 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 63%, 53%, 3%. Starting from the pure hue at 350 degrees, Ponceau is close to the pure hue, with little white or black in it.