Exploring the Color #5F1E2A

#5F1E2A sits at 349° on the color wheel, placing it in the red family of the warm half of the spectrum. With 52% saturation and 25% lightness, it reads as a moderately saturated, shadowed tone — a balanced mid-energy presence that sits comfortably alongside other UI tones. Its RGB mix of 95, 30, 42 produces a 12.31:1 contrast ratio against white, which clears WCAG AAA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #5F1E2A is a distant relative of CSS maroon — about 61 units away from #800000. Designers reach for red hues at this saturation when the brief calls for a conversational, mid-energy register, and at this lightness when they want weight, depth, and grounded contrast. On screen the warm cast tends to pair best with cool neutrals around 210°-230° to balance temperature.

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