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Eric Cartman's Jacket

From South Park · 1997

#D71D3Fwarm red-orange

H349° S87% B84%R215 G29 B63

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Color anatomy

Shades — darker

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South Park debuted in 1997 and introduced Eric Cartman to audiences with a distinctive visual identity. The character's color scheme was designed for maximum readability in fast-paced animated sequences.

The jacket color #D71D3F is a warm red-orange that's richly saturated and bright and airy. At H349° S87% B84%, it occupies a specific sweet spot in the HSB space — warm enough to feel energetic.

Eric Cartman's jacket is a color players think they know cold — until they have to dial it in from scratch. The most common mistake is oversaturating (going too intense) and pushing the brightness too high toward white.

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Calibrated to this character's specific hex, not generic color advice.

1Hue: Lock in around 349° — squarely in the pink/magenta range (300°–360°). Don't drift more than 10° from the target.

2Saturation: Target 87%. This is a vivid, punchy color — err on the side of too saturated rather than too gray. The most common miss is dropping below 60%.

3Brightness should stay in the mid-to-upper range (55–85%). Too low and you lose the character's warmth; too high and it washes out toward white.

4Common mistake: Most players overshoot saturation (too intense) and brightness (too light). Dial saturation back slightly from your first instinct, then lock brightness to match the character's lighting.