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Tailwind rose-950

The hex code of Tailwind rose-950 is #4d0218 (rgb(77 2 24)), from its Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 value oklch(27.1% 0.105 12.094). White text on it reaches 15.70:1, passing WCAG AAA; below, Recolor (recolor.page) puts it on a page.

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#4d0218rose-950
From the theme file of Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 (--color-rose-950), converted with Recolor's color code, October 9, 2026
FormatValue
OKLCH, as Tailwind writes itoklch(27.1% 0.105 12.094)
Hex#4d0218
RGBrgb(77 2 24)
HSLhsl(342 95% 15%)
CSS variablevar(--color-rose-950)
Nearest CSS namemaroon #800000, 0.124 away in OKLab
White text15.70:1: AA passes, AAA passes, large text passes
Black text1.34:1: AA fails, AAA fails, large text fails

About rose-950

Read as numbers, rose-950 is lightness 27.1%, chroma 0.105 and hue 12.1 degrees; read by eye, it is a vivid very dark red. It closes the rose scale as its darkest shade, 13.9 points of lightness below rose-900.

HSL calls its lightness 15%, OKLCH 27.1%: 12 points between a formula and a measure of what the eye sees. No gamut mapping is needed here: oklch(27.1% 0.105 12.094) sits inside sRGB and #4d0218 matches it.

White on rose-950 reads at 15.70:1, enough for AAA body text; black reaches 1.34:1 and should stay off it. White text passes on every rose shade from rose-600 down, so rose-950 is 4 shades past the line.

No CSS named color comes near it: the closest, maroon (#800000), is 0.124 away in OKLab.

Tints and shades

  1. #e2d2d4
  2. #c5a7aa
  3. #a87e82
  4. #8a565c
  5. #6c2f39
  6. #4d0218
  7. #3a0110
  8. #290109
  9. #180004
  10. #090001
  11. #010000

From light to dark: 5 toward white and 5 toward black, mixed in OKLCH a sixth of the way at a time with the hue kept. A step that would repeat its neighbor is left out.

A palette around it

  1. #4d0218
  2. #5085b8
  3. #ffd3d4
  4. #7f3b46
  5. #9cd571

Around rose-950 as swatch 1, Recolor's generator made a triadic palette, three hues a third of the wheel apart: #5085b8, #ffd3d4, #7f3b46, #9cd571, drawn from a seed fixed by its hex. Open it in Recolor.

Using rose-950

Pair it with text-white, 15.70:1; rose-950 as text on a white page measures the same ratio. In CSS it is var(--color-rose-950).

HTML
<a class="bg-rose-950 text-white" href="/start">Get started</a>
<p class="text-rose-950">Text in rose-950</p>

Common questions

Does white text pass WCAG AA on Tailwind rose-950?

Yes. White text measures 15.70:1 on rose-950, above the 4.5:1 that WCAG AA asks of body text, and above AAA's 7:1 too.

Is Tailwind rose-950 defined in OKLCH?

Yes. Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 defines it as --color-rose-950: oklch(27.1% 0.105 12.094); #4d0218 is its conversion to sRGB.

Is there a CSS named color for Tailwind rose-950?

No. The nearest CSS named color is maroon (#800000), 0.124 away in OKLab.

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