Strawberry Wine Color

#cb6a6b

Strawberry Wine is calm, warm-toned shade of cool red. It is better contrasting with white. This color combines beautifully with warm cyan, warm blue or warm green

Inverse Color #349594
Complementary Color #6acaca
Color Shade: cool red (359.38° hue)
Color Temperature: warm
Lightness: 60.59% (better contrasting with white)
Strawberry Wine Color Sample
Strawberry Wine Color Sample

Better Alternatives To #cb6a6b

If you're looking for a similar cool red shade, there are some better alternatives to Strawberry Wine Color. The Enticing Red color for instance is a darker and a bit more faded option, however this color has a red magenta bias. Consider a darker and more saturated alternative called New Brick Red (#cb4154) for more energetic effect. Try Martini East as it also a bit more faded and calm.

Complementary Palette

#6acaca is the best complementary color to Strawberry Wine. Warm cyan shades generally complement the cool red hues best as they are found on the opposite end of the color wheel. The most popular #cb6a6b complementary color is Downy, as it offers maximum contrast and grab the viewer's attention.

Analogous Palette

The analogous palette of warm magenta, cool red, and warm red colors offers a soft combination of similar warm shades. The analogous colors of Contessa are #ca6a9b and #ca996a. Thus found on the left and right of #cb6a6b on the color wheel with a 30° gap. Consider matching Hopbush and Antique Brass colors as they work well with Strawberry Wine.

Split-complementary Palette

The split-complementary Strawberry Wine palette consists of #6a9bca and #6aca99 colors. They can be found 30° apart on either side of the complementary color (#6acaca). Try Danube and De York colors in combination with #cb6a6b, as they are not as contrasting as a complementary color, hence, giving more hue variety to make your design stand out.

Triadic Palette

The triadic palette of #cb6a6b offers a combination of cool blue and warm green shades and equally high contrast between the three of them. Find triadic colors at the 120° distance from the Strawberry Wine. Thus Blue Marguerite and Mantis giving maximum hue separation to use all three together.

Square Palette

The square color palette of Strawberry Wine contains three additional colors. Thus, complementary Downy, Wild Willow, and Amethyst split by 90° on the color wheel. #cb6a6b square combo is a palette of cool red, cool yellow, warm cyan and warm blue shades that work together well.

Tetradic Palette

The tetradic palette is a bit more complex than the square and has more of a rectangle shape. Strawberry Wine tetradic combo consists of warm cyan complementary color (#6acaca) and two others. The Mantis is positioned 120° clockwise from the primary color and Fuchsia Pink – 120° from the complementary Downy. This palette is not recommended to use as-is. Try to tweak the saturation and brightness of #6aca6a and #ca6aca.

Conversion Table

In a RGB color space, hex #cb6a6b is made of 49% red, 25% green and 26% blue. In a HSL mode Strawberry Wine has a hue angle of 359.38°, a saturation of 48.26% and a lightness of 60.59%. In a CMYK space (used in printing only), hex #cb6a6b is made of 0% cyan, 38.04% magenta, 37.65% yellow and 20.39% black ink.

HEX #cb6a6b
RGB Decimal rgb(203,106,107)
RGB Percentage 49%, 25%, 26%
CMYK 0, 38.04, 37.65, 20.39
HSL hsl(359.38,48.26%,60.59%)
HSV (or HSB) hsv(359.38,47.78%,79.61%)
CIE-LAB lab(56.1539,38.4015,17.0361)
XYZ xyz(32.4365,24.0661,16.8456)
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