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Ragged Sangiovese

#967b7d
Notes

Ragged Sangiovese (#967B7D) is a true red with a warm character. It leans warm, pulling light toward red, orange, and yellow. Naturally inviting, it suits editorial and hospitality contexts. Its HSL profile (356°, 11%, 54%) places it in the muted band at a mid lightness. It works across type, buttons, and borders, saturated enough to feel deliberate but balanced enough to not fight the rest of the palette. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary cyan. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#967b7d
RGB
rgb(150, 123, 125)
HSL
hsl(356, 11%, 54%)
HWB
hwb(356 48% 41%)
OKLCH
oklch(60.9% 0.034 13.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5712 0.4863 0.4915)
HSV
hsv(356, 18%, 59%)
LAB
lab(54.17% 10.76 2.84)
LCH
lch(54.17% 11.13 14.78)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 18%, 17%, 41%)

Etymology

Ragged
adjective

Old Norse rǫgg, shaggy hair — adjectival suffix -ed. As a color modifier, ragged implies a hushed-and-rough-edged-and-worn quality, the hushed color of multi-decade farmhouse-and-cottage heavily-worn-and-shaggy-edged everyday-clothing surface. Sits at the hushed-and-worn end of the grid, parallel to tattered and frayed in usage.

Sangiovese
noun

The dominant red grape of central Italy — backbone of Chianti, Brunello, and Vino Nobile. The color refers to a young Brunello di Montalcino: a saturated, slightly cool deep red with the optical complexity of well-aged Tuscan wine. Deeper than Chianti, cooler than Tempranillo.

Closest matches

The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.

Variations

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Harmonies

Accessibility

Color-vision simulation

How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.

#967b7d
Original
#7f7f7d
Protanopia
#85837d
Deuteranopia
#9c797c
Tritanopia
#818181
Achromatopsia
WCAG contrast

The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.

The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AA Largeon White
3.87:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAon Black
5.43:1

Wide gamut

Display P3 representation

The CSS Color 4 wide-gamut form of this color. Both swatches render the same color on every display — the P3 form only diverges from sRGB when a designer pushes channels outside sRGB's reach.

sRGB hex
sRGB hex
##967B7D
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5712 0.4863 0.4915)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.034

This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.

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