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The colour blood red is a dark shade of the colour red meant to resemble the colour of human blood (which is composed of oxygenated red erythrocytes, white leukocytes, and yellow blood plasma). It is the iron in hemoglobin specifically that gives blood its red colour.
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Blood red is a warm color that can be bright or dark red. The bright red color of crimson is often considered the color of fresh blood, but blood-red color may also describe a dark maroon shade of red.
When planning a design project destined for commercial printing, use CMYK formulations for blood red in your page layout software or select a Pantone spot color. For display on a computer monitor, use RGB values.
Use hex designations when working with HTML, CSS, and SVG. Blood red shades are best achieved with the following:
Hex RGB CMYK
Blood Red #bb0a1e 166,16,30 0,95,84,27
Crimson #dc143c 220,20,60 0,91,73,14
Dark Red #8b0000 139,0,0 0,100,100,45
When working with printed pieces, sometimes a solid color red ink, rather than a CMYK red, is a more economical choice. The Pantone Matching System is the most widely recognized spot color system, and it is supported by industry-leading design software and most U.S. commercial printing companies.
Here are the Pantone colors suggested as best matches to blood red:
Pantone Solid Coated
Blood Red 7621 C
Crimson 199 C
Dark Red 7623 C
Blood red is a brownish-red shade with the hex code #880808, often created solely with red in the RGB color model. Blood red includes multiple shades that resemble the color of blood at varying levels of oxygenation--bright red with more O2, rusty with less.
Learn how to create the blood red color using the specific codes for different graphic systems. Find the HEX, RGB and CMYK values, as well as shades, variations and complementary colors of blood red.
Learn about the color blood red, a dark shade of red that resembles human blood. Find its hex code, RGB, CMYK, HSL, HSV and other color values, as well as similar colors and paints.
The color of blood red ranges from crimson to a dark brown-red and may have a slightly orange hue. In the RGB color spectrum, it often consists only of the color red, with no green or blue component; in the CMYK color model blood red has no cyan, and consists only of magenta and yellow with a small amount of black.
The color blood with hexadecimal color code #8a0303 is a medium dark shade of red. In the RGB color model #8a0303 is composed of 54.12% red, 1.18% green and 1.18% blue. In the HSL color space #8a0303 has a hue of 0° (degrees), 96% saturation and 28% lightness. This color has an approximate wavelength of 611.37 nm.
