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Maroon #800000

#800000 · rgb(128, 0, 0)

Maroon is the color #800000. In RGB it is rgb(128, 0, 0) — 50% red, 0% green and 0% blue. Its CMYK breakdown is 0% cyan, 100% magenta, 100% yellow and 50% black, and in HSL it sits at 0° hue, 100% saturation and 25% lightness. Maroon is one of the 140 standard CSS / HTML color names, so color: maroon works in CSS. The closest web-safe color is #990000.

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Maroon color codes

Hex#800000
RGBrgb(128, 0, 0)
RGB %50%, 0%, 0%
HSLhsl(0, 100%, 25%)
HSV / HSBhsv(0, 100%, 50%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 100%, 100%, 50%)
OKLCHoklch(38% 0.155 29)
Closest web-safe#990000

Contrast

Contrast ratio of Maroon against white and black text (WCAG 2.1 needs 4.5:1 for body text).

White text — 10.95:1 Black text — 1.92:1

Shades, tints & tones

Shades — toward black
Tints — toward white
Tones — toward gray

Color harmonies

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Analogous
Split-complementary
Triadic
Tetradic
Square
Rainbow

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