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Established Helix Strawberry

#b12140
Notes

Established Helix Strawberry (#B12140) is a true red with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (347°, 69%, 41%) places it in the balanced 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 teal. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#b12140
RGB
rgb(177, 33, 64)
HSL
hsl(347, 69%, 41%)
HWB
hwb(347 13% 31%)
OKLCH
oklch(49.9% 0.178 15.4)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6377 0.1873 0.2608)
HSV
hsv(347, 81%, 69%)
LAB
lab(39.26% 57.24 19.57)
LCH
lch(39.26% 60.50 18.87)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 81%, 64%, 31%)

Etymology

Established
adjective

Latin stabilīre, to make stable — past-participle of establish. As a color modifier, established implies a saturated-and-rooted quality where the hue carries the weight of long-standing visual presence. Sits at the bold-and-firm end of the grid, parallel to steadfast and anchored in usage.

Helix
modifier

Greek ἕλιξ, spiral-or-coil. As a color modifier, helix implies a planetary-nebula-and-spiraling-coil quality, the visual register of Helix-Nebula-and-Eye-of-God hand-planetary-nebula-and-spiraling-coil Helix-Nebula-and-Eye-of-God-and-NGC-7293 helix-and-planetary-nebula-and-spiraling-coil surfaces under Helix-Nebula-and-Eye-of-God-and-NGC-7293 Aquarius-and-Hubble-deep-field planetary-nebula-light. Sits at the modifier-and-cosmic end of the grid, parallel to nebula and corona in usage.

Strawberry
noun

Fragaria × ananassa, the cultivated strawberry of European gardens since the eighteenth century. The color refers to the surface of a ripe berry: a clean, bright red with a slight blue shift in the shadows of the achenes. Warmer than ruby, lighter than crimson, with the optical brightness of fresh fruit rather than the depth of pigment or gem.

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.

#b12140
Original
#4c4940
Protanopia
#70673c
Deuteranopia
#c2002f
Tritanopia
#424242
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).
AAon White
6.64:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AA Largeon Black
3.16:1

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
##B12140
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6377 0.1873 0.2608)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.178

Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.

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