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#533B53

Eggplant · dark warm pink

About #533B53

With the hex code #533B53, this is a dark pink with a muted character. Its RGB recipe is 33% red, 23% green and 33% blue, while a printer would mix 0% cyan, 29% magenta, 0% yellow and 67% black. It reads as a warm colour.

If you had to name it, it is very close to Eggplant — a ΔE of 7.0 — followed by Charcoal. For maximum hue contrast, pair it with its complement #3B533B, a hunter green shade.

In design, a dark colour like this works best for headings, body text, footers and dark-mode backgrounds. Put white text on top of it — 9.91:1, a WCAG AAA pass. Used as a text colour on white, it is readable too (9.91:1).

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Red83
Green59
Blue83

Closest named colours

Eggplant
#614051 · ΔE 7.0
Charcoal
#36454F · ΔE 18.7
Graphite
#383838 · ΔE 19.1

ΔE measures visible difference: under 2 is barely noticeable, over 10 is clearly different.

Text on #533B53

WCAG contrast for white and black text on this colour.

White heading text
Body copy set on eggplant #533B53.
9.91:1AAA
Black heading text
Body copy set on eggplant #533B53.
2.12:1Fail

Colour-blindness preview

How #533B53 appears to people with the three most common types of colour-vision deficiency.

Normal vision
#533B53
Protanopia (no red cones)
#394154
Deuteranopia (no green cones)
#3F4452
Tritanopia (no blue cones)
#553D43

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Frequently asked questions

›What colour is #533B53?

With the hex code #533B53, this is a dark pink with a muted character. Its RGB recipe is 33% red, 23% green and 33% blue, while a printer would mix 0% cyan, 29% magenta, 0% yellow and 67% black. It reads as a warm colour.

›What text colour should I use on #533B53?

Use white text. White on #533B53 has a contrast ratio of 9.91:1 (AAA).

›What colours go with #533B53?

Its complementary colour is #3B533B, and analogous partners are #473B53 and #533B47.