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Venetian Red

Venetian Red color #C80815: RGB 200, 8, 21 and HSL 356°, 92%, 41%. Explore its warm red profile, contrast, CSS, palettes and harmonies.

#C80815 red warm vibrant
HEX #C80815
RGB rgb(200, 8, 21)
HSL hsl(356 92% 41%)
CMYK cmyk(0, 96, 89, 22)
Luminance 0.1251
Contrast Black 3.5:1White 6:1

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CSS Utilities

--color-venetian-red: #C80815;
.bg-venetian-red { background-color: #C80815; }
.text-venetian-red { color: #C80815; }
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Color history, meaning and use · Editorially reviewed

About Venetian Red Color

Venetian red names both a range of reddish-brown colors and a durable iron-oxide pigment. Getty’s terminology record distinguishes its early preparation from natural red ochre from the manufactured material common from the eighteenth century, made by calcining ferrous sulfate with lime or calcium carbonate. It has served in artists’ oil colors, architectural paint, and paper coloring rather than belonging to one narrowly defined visual style.

The digital swatch is most useful as an earthy structural red: warmer than brown, quieter than a bright signal red, and compatible with plaster, parchment, charcoal, olive, and stone. The historical name covers a range, so a single HEX cannot authenticate a paint, establish its date, or describe the ferric-oxide content of a physical sample.

This is a contemporary screen approximation, not a pigment formula, geographic attribution, conservation identification, or reproduction standard.

WCAG Accessibility

Contrast checks for Venetian Red against black and white text.

Black text3.5:1AA Fail
White text6:1AA Pass
AA text options#FFFFFF, #F5F5F5
AAA text optionsNone in seed set
Open WCAG pageDetailed contrast notes, warnings, alternatives, and UI examples

Downloadable color reference infographic

Venetian Red Color Reference Infographic

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Venetian Red color reference infographic showing #C80815, RGB and HSL values, a coordinated palette, and black and white text contrast.
Venetian Red color reference infographic generated from the verified Colors Encyclopedia dataset.
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Color Harmonies

#08C9BC#08C9BC#C90875#C90875#C95C08#C95C08#15C908#15C908#0815C9#0815C9
Open full Venetian Red harmony pageComplementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic, split, and monochromatic sets

Variants

#F73643#F73643#71050C#71050C#D1000E#D1000E#B21F29#B21F29#EB666E#EB666E#FA0011#FA0011

Pairings

White#FFFFFF#08C9BC#08C9BC#C90875#C90875#C95C08#C95C08Matte Black#1A1A1AWhite Smoke#F5F5F5

Machine-readable data

Machine-Readable Color Data (JSON)

Perfect for CSS, design systems, automation, and AI ingestion.

AI-Ready Dataset v1.0.0
Luminance0.1251
Black text3.5:1AA Fail
White text6:1AA Pass
hexCanonical HEX value
rgbRed, green, blue channels
hslHue, saturation, lightness
cmykApproximate print conversion
wcagAA and AAA contrast options
harmoniesMathematical harmony sets
variantsGenerated tone variants
nearestColorsKnowledge graph neighbors
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Structured sections
Color systems
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}
WCAG
{
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    "#FFFFFF",
    "#F5F5F5"
  ],
  "AAA": []
}
Harmonies
{
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  "analogous": [
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    "#0875C9"
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    "#C80815",
    "#71050C"
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}
Variants
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  "saturated": "#D1000E",
  "desaturated": "#B21F29",
  "pastel": "#EB666E",
  "neon": "#FA0011"
}
Pairings
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    "#F73643"
  ],
  "neutral": [
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    "#F5F5F5",
    "#E8E8E4"
  ],
  "highContrast": [
    "#FFFFFF"
  ],
  "lowContrast": [
    "#F73643",
    "#B21F29"
  ]
}
Knowledge graph
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}
Full JSON dataset 
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}
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