Exploring the Color #953C68

#953C68 sits at 330° on the color wheel, placing it in the rose family of the warm half of the spectrum. With 43% saturation and 41% 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 149, 60, 104 produces a 6.72:1 contrast ratio against white, which clears WCAG AA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #953C68 is a distant relative of CSS dim gray — about 63 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 warm cast tends to pair best with cool neutrals around 210°-230° to balance temperature.

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