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Rose Ebony Color Codes

Rose Ebony is a dark, desaturated red with the hex code #674846, RGB values of 103, 72, 70 and an HSL value of hsl(4, 19%, 34%).

HEX#674846
RGB103, 72, 70
HSLhsl(4, 19%, 34%)
HSV4°, 32%, 40%
CMYK0%, 30%, 32%, 60%
LAB33.90, 12.94, 6.47
CIELCHuv33.90, 20.26, 15.83°
Nearest Pantone
PMS 438 C ΔE 4.9 · approximate
Nearest CSS name
dimgray ΔE 17.9

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Rose Ebony Color Hex Code

The Rose Ebony color hex code is #674846. Those six digits are three pairs, 67 for red, 48 for green and 46 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#674846

Rose Ebony Color RGB Code

The Rose Ebony RGB code is rgb(103, 72, 70). Red carries the most light at 103 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(103, 72, 70)

Rose Ebony Color HSV Code

The Rose Ebony HSV code is 4°, 32%, 40%. Read it as a hue of 4 degrees, 32% saturation and 40% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

4°, 32%, 40%

Rose Ebony Color CIELChuv Code

The Rose Ebony CIELCHuv code is 33.90, 20.26, 15.83°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 34 means dark to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 20 is how far it sits from grey.

33.90, 20.26, 15.83°

Tonal scale

What are Rose Ebony 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 Rose Ebony Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #674846. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Directly opposite sits #466567, a dark, desaturated teal. No other pairing separates two hues further, so this is the one to reach for when a single element has to win attention. Neither is especially saturated, so this pairing stays calm enough for large areas of both.

Analogous

#674655 and #675946 sit 30 degrees either side. All three share most of their hue, so the set reads as one family instead of three separate decisions. Good for backgrounds and for state variations that should not announce themselves.

Triadic

#466748 and #484667 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: #466759 and #465567. 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 #466567, and #556746 with #594667. 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

Contrast checker: is Rose Ebony 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

8.10:1

8.10

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

2.59:1

2.59

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

Rose Ebony clears WCAG AA against white at 8.10:1, so it is safe for body copy as well as headings. Text placed on it should be white, which gives 8.10:1.

Color vision

How Rose Ebony 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

#5B5B46

Rose Ebony shifts noticeably here. ΔE 18.3

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

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men
actual

#5D5F47

Rose Ebony shifts noticeably here. ΔE 20.4

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

#664747

Rose Ebony holds up almost unchanged here. ΔE 1.3

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

#505050

Rose Ebony shifts noticeably here. ΔE 14.5

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, Rose Ebony reads as #5D5F47. That is a shift of ΔE 20.4, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. The widest shift is under deuteranopia, at ΔE 20.4. 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.

Snippets

Using Rose Ebony in code

:root {
  --rose-ebony: #674846;
}

.example {
  color: var(--rose-ebony);
}