Exploring the Color #6E3251

#6E3251 sits at 329° on the color wheel, placing it in the rose family of the neutral half of the spectrum. With 38% saturation and 31% 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 110, 50, 81 produces a 9.38:1 contrast ratio against white, which clears WCAG AAA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #6E3251 is a distant relative of CSS dim gray — about 60 units away from #696969. Designers reach for rose hues at this saturation when the brief calls for a conversational, mid-energy register, and at this lightness when they want a present, comfortable mid-canvas voice. On screen the balanced cast tends to pair best with either warm or cool accents depending on the surrounding palette.

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