Exploring the Color #5A3348

#5A3348 sits at 328° on the color wheel, placing it in the rose family of the neutral half of the spectrum. With 28% saturation and 28% lightness, it reads as a softly muted, shadowed tone — a balanced mid-energy presence that sits comfortably alongside other UI tones. Its RGB mix of 90, 51, 72 produces a 10.49:1 contrast ratio against white, which clears WCAG AAA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #5A3348 is a distant relative of CSS dim gray — about 65 units away from #696969. Designers reach for rose hues at this saturation when the brief calls for restraint and atmosphere, and at this lightness when they want weight, depth, and grounded contrast. On screen the balanced cast tends to pair best with either warm or cool accents depending on the surrounding palette.

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