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#CC1100

#CC1100

Reds · #c10 is the three-digit shorthand for #CC1100. In CSS the two notations mean the same color.

HEX#CC1100
RGB204, 17, 0
HSL5°, 100%, 40%
CMYK0%, 92%, 100%, 20%
Relative luminance0.13

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Text contrast

Aa

On white

5.76:1 Passes AA

Aa

On black

3.65:1 Below AA

Colours that work with it

Complement

#00BBCC

Analogous

#CC0055#CC7700

Triadic

#00CC11#1100CC

Shade scale

50100200300400500600700800

Seen with colour blindness

ProtanopiaDeuteranopiaTritanopia

How to read this

  • A hex code writes red, green and blue as two hexadecimal digits each. #ff0000 is red at full strength and the others at zero.
  • HSL states hue (0–360°), saturation and lightness. Nudging a colour brighter means changing one number, which is why it is easier to work with by hand.
  • Text contrast follows WCAG. Body-size text needs 4.5:1 or better, and 21:1 between white and black is the maximum possible.
  • The colour-blindness row computes how this colour appears under three types of colour vision deficiency — the reason never to encode information in colour alone.

Frequently asked questions

Q. Are #c10 and #CC1100 the same color?

Yes. CSS doubles each digit of a three-digit hex, so #c10 expands to #CC1100. Only 4,096 colors can be written in three digits, and this is one of them.

Q. What text color works on #CC1100?

White text. Contrast against white is 5.76:1 and against black 3.65:1, so pick the larger one — WCAG asks for 4.5:1 at body size.

Q. Which named color is closest to #CC1100?

Red. It is not an exact match, so where color matters use the hex code itself rather than the name.

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