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A comprehensive guide to hex color #b83c82

About hex color #b83c82 - near-Medium red-violet

Hex color #b83c82 may be mistaken for "Medium red-violet". It's categorized as "red". When people spot the color red in marketing, they might associate it with: an increased appetite, their physical self and being, a sense of urgency, food and restaurants, and loud. It's rarely tied to finance and wealth. Unity and Instagram are using a color close to Medium red-violet in their branding. (Explore brands using Medium red-violet).

In RGB colorspace, the hexadecimal color #b83c82 is created using 72.2% red, 23.5% green, and 51% blue. In CMYK colorspace, you can make the color using 0% cyan, 67.4% magenta, 29.4% yellow, and 27.8% black.

RGB Composition
    R   G   B    
CMYK Composition
  C   M   Y   K  

#b83c82 is made up of R: 184, G: 60, B: 130 in RGB colorspace and C: 0, M:67.39, Y:29.35, K:27.84 in CMYK colorspace. Its decimal value is 12074114 and the closest web-safe color code to it is #cc3399. Its closest named color is "Medium red-violet". White should be used ontop of #b83c82 to ensure the best legibility.

Here's a color conversion chart. It contains technical information about the hex color #b83c82. If you're a programmer, view the code snippets section for prepared language syntax.

hex #b83c82
Websafe hex #cc3399
rgb 184, 60, 130
rgb percent (%) 71.88%, 23.44%, 50.78%
rgba R: 184, G: 60, B: 130, A: 1.0
CMYK C: 0, M:67.39, Y:29.35, K:27.84
hsv 326.13, 50.82, 47.84
hsb 326.13, 67.39, 72.16
luma 104.926
Black or white text? #ffffff
Adobe RGB 159, 62, 127
Closest named color Medium red-violet
Hunter-Lab 38.77, 52.02, -10.02
CIE-L*ab 45.68, 56.25, -12.21
CIE-L*Ch(ab) 45.68, 57.56, 347.75
CIE-L*uv 45.68, 71.76, -26.21°

Some colors work better together. Here, you'll find color harmonies and schemes specific to the hex color #b83c82. These color palettes have been mathematically proven to pair well in designs.


The Complimentary color scheme is made up of two colors. These two colors are opposite one another in the color spectrum. The first color is called the "base" #b83c82 and the second color is called the "compliment" #3cb871.



Split Complimentary

The Split Complimentary color scheme is made up of three colors. The base color #b83c82 is paired with the two colors to the left and the right of compliment color #3cb871.















When designing or marketing products, especially on a worldwide platform like Amazon, color is important. This section contains links to Amazon products that have some relation to one of the attributes of the color #b83c82: "an increased heart rate".


Seeing darker, lighter, and tinted variations of the hex color #b83c82 can help you with your creative processes. Remember, you can click on a color to be taken to its own page full of unique color information.

Darker shades

Darker shades are produced by blending #b83c82 with black #000000.


Lighter shades

Lighter shades are produced by blending #b83c82 with white #FFFFFF.



Tones are produced by blending #b83c82 with gray #808080.


A color gradient may also be known as color progression or a color ramp. A gradient is the gradual transition of one color into another. This section showcases gradients featuring #b83c82 as the base color. The secondary colors come from the Color Harmonies section above.



Seeing #b83c82 on a computer or phone screen is much different than how it may appear in the real world. Shown here are 20 different environment types and how #b83c82 could potentially look inside each of them, given perfect conditions. For example, #b83c82 appears as #c13377 when in northern sky daylight and as #c13180 when in daylight fluorescent.

Old direct sunlight at noon
Old daylight
ICC profile PCS
Mid-morning daylight
Daylight, sRGB, Adobe-RGB
North sky daylight
Equal energy
Daylight Fluorescent
Cool fluorescent
White Fluorescent
Warm White Fluorescent
Daylight Fluorescent
Lite White Fluorescent
Daylight fluorescent, D65 simulator
Sylvania F40, D50 simulator
Cool White Fluorescent
Ultralume 50, Philips TL85
Ultralume 40, Philips TL84
Ultralume 30, Philips TL83
Data used in calculating these colors comes courtesy of Easy RGB.


Closest named colors to #b83c82


Medium red-violet
Mystic maroon
Red-violet (Crayola)
Maximum Red Purple
Fuchsia rose
Fuchsia purple

Furthest named colors to #b83c82

Looking for something completely different? Try a well-documented complimentary color. The named colors below have been calculated to be the furthest colors from #b83c82. Click on the colors to explore their unique information.

Electric green
Green (Color Wheel) (X11 green)
Lime (web) (X11 green)
Electric cyan
Spanish sky blue
Neon cyan

Colors are important to brands and the messages they convey. Brand recognition and colors go hand-in-hand. Knowing what brands are using #b83c82, or a color similar, can help you in determining whether the color is appropriate to your design.

Instagram uses the color #c13584


Unity uses the color #b83c82



HTML, CSS #b83c82
Java new Color(184, 60, 130)
.NET Color.FromArgb(255, 184, 60, 130);
Objective-C [UIColor colorWithRed:0.7216 green:0.2353 blue:0.5098 alpha:1.00000];
OpenGL glColor3f(0.7216f, 0.2353f, 0.5098f);
Swift UIColor(red:0.7216, green:0.2353, blue:0.5098, alpha:1.00000)
GameMaker Language (GML) $823CB8
Python Color('#b83c82')

This useful chart contains technical information about the hexadecimal color #b83c82. For example, the direct decimal conversion is 12074114 while the individual RGB conversions are: 184, 60, 130.


If you're considering using #b83c82 in a logo or design, you can quickly reference below to see how various symbols, icons, and emblems look.

Icons courtesy of Font Awesome.

We learned earlier that White-colored text should be used on a #b83c82 colored background for best readability. But, you can be the judge of that by looking at the examples below.

This text is hex color #b83c82 on a solid black (#000000) background.

This text is hex color #b83c82 on a solid white (#ffffff) background.

This text is solid black (#000000) on a solid hex color #b83c82 background.

This text is solid white (#ffffff) on a solid hex color #b83c82 background.

This text is hex color #b83c82 on a striped black (#000000) and white (#ffffff) background.

This text is hex color #b83c82 on a striped gray (#808080) and white (#ffffff) background.

This text is solid black (#000000) on a striped hex color #b83c82 and white (#ffffff) background.

This text is solid white (#ffffff) on a striped hex color #b83c82 and white (#ffffff) background.

Patterns courtesy of Hero Patterns.



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