Dark Red Hex Codes: 40 Deep, dark shades

These are the deep, dark shades of red in Tintly's color library: 40 of the 149 red shades. Dark shades give text, headers and the base of a dark theme. They carry white text easily.

Dark red shades with hex codes

How to use them

Use a dark shade for headings and body text on light pages, and as the background of a dark section with a light shade on top.

Standouts in this group

• Darkest: Dark Matter (#110101), at 12% lightness.
• Lightest: Salami (#820000), at 38% lightness.
• Most saturated: Salami (#820000).
• Best text color on white: Dark Matter (#110101), at 20.41:1.

What the numbers say

Across all 149 red shades in the library, lightness runs from 12% to 74%. 102 of them reach 4.5 to 1 on white, so they can be used as text on a light page, and 44 reach 4.5 to 1 on near-black, so they can be used as text on a dark page. The rest are for fills, surfaces and large type, where the requirement is lower. Within the deep, dark shades the figures are different: 40 of 40 pass on white.

Pairing with other families

The base red (#D62839) separates best from beige (3.54:1), yellow (3.02:1) and orange (1.89:1). Because red stands for love, passion and fire, those pairings carry the most contrast of both color and meaning.

• Red and beige: see the combinations in soft, bold and dark versions.
• Red and yellow: see the combinations in soft, bold and dark versions.
• Red and orange: see the combinations in soft, bold and dark versions.