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Wine

#722F37

Wine is commonly given as the hex color #722F37, with RGB values 114, 47, 55. It is not a CSS keyword, so the value is a widely used convention rather than a standard.

RedCommon convention

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#722F37rgb(114, 47, 55) · hsl(353, 42%, 32%)

Wine color codes

Every value for #722F37, ready to paste. Click any code to copy it.

Channel values for #722F37 in each number base
ChannelDecimalShareHexOctalBinary
Red11444.71%7216201110010
Green4718.43%2F5700101111
Blue5521.57%376700110111

The nearest web-safe color is #663333, from the 216-color palette browsers agreed on before displays could be trusted with more.

About wine

Dark red with brown in it, muted enough to read as a neutral in interiors. Deeper and less purple than burgundy despite the two being used interchangeably.

Shades, tints and tones

Every step is generated from #722F37. Click a swatch to copy its hex.

Shades of wine

A shade is the base color with black mixed in. Shades read as deeper and more dramatic, and they are what you reach for when a color needs to recede or carry weight.

Tints of wine

A tint is the base color with white mixed in. Tints turn pastel as they lighten, which makes them useful for backgrounds and for anything that has to sit behind text.

Tones of wine

A tone is the base color with grey mixed in. Tones lose the shout without losing the hue, and they are usually what separates a considered palette from a loud one.

The wine scale

The same color as the 50 to 950 ladder every CSS framework uses, with #722F37 at 500. Click a step to copy its hex, or take the whole scale as variables for a design system.

Color schemes built on wine

Harmonies are positions on the color wheel rather than matters of taste, which is why they keep working across very different designs.

Complementary

Two colors from opposite sides of the wheel. They make each other look more vivid, which is why the pairing is used for anything that needs to stand out.

Analogous

Three neighbours on the wheel. Nothing competes, so the result reads calm and settled, closer to how colour behaves in nature.

Split complementary

The base plus the two colors either side of its complement. It keeps most of the contrast while being much easier to balance.

Triadic

Three colors spaced evenly around the wheel. Strong and lively, and usually best with one dominant color and two accents.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs, forming a rectangle on the wheel. The richest scheme available, and the hardest to keep from shouting.

Monochromatic

One hue at different lightness levels. Effortlessly cohesive, and the safest way to build a palette around a brand color.

Colors close to #722F37

Near neighbours, for when this color is almost right. Each one shifts hue, saturation or lightness by a small step.

Wine color palettes

Five-color palettes built around #722F37, each following a different scheme. Click any swatch to copy it, or open the generator to build your own.

Analogous

Complementary

Triadic

Monochromatic

Open the palette generator to lock the colors you like and regenerate the rest.

Contrast and readability

Whether wine works as text, and what to put on top of it when it is the background. Ratios follow WCAG 2.1, where 4.5 is the bar for body text and 3 for large text.

Wine text on white background

9.65:1 · Excellent

Large text at 24 pixels

Body text at 16 pixels. A flat field of color removes every variable, which is what makes it useful for judging a display.

  • Body AA
  • Body AAA
  • Large AA
  • Large AAA

Wine text on black background

2.18:1 · Poor

Large text at 24 pixels

Body text at 16 pixels. A flat field of color removes every variable, which is what makes it useful for judging a display.

  • Body AA
  • Body AAA
  • Large AA
  • Large AAA

Used the other way round, #722F37 as a background takes #FFFFFF text. That is the higher-contrast of the two, and it is what the tool picks automatically for any chrome sitting on your color.

Wine reads better on a white background of the two. Contrast is a property of the pair, not of one color, so a color that fails here can still be perfectly usable against a different partner.

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The red family

Wine sits in the red family. Every named red in the library, with wine first.

SwatchNameHexRGBHSL
Wine is the color on this page#722F37114, 47, 55353, 42%, 32%
Red is a CSS keyword#FF0000255, 0, 00, 100%, 50%
Crimson is a CSS keyword#DC143C220, 20, 60348, 83%, 47%
Maroon is a CSS keyword#800000128, 0, 00, 100%, 25%
Burgundy#800020128, 0, 32345, 100%, 25%
Salmon is a CSS keyword#FA8072250, 128, 1146, 93%, 71%
Scarlet#FF2400255, 36, 08, 100%, 50%
Ruby#E0115F224, 17, 95337, 86%, 47%
Cherry#D2042D210, 4, 45348, 96%, 42%
Blush#DE5D83222, 93, 131342, 66%, 62%
Firebrick is a CSS keyword#B22222178, 34, 340, 68%, 42%
Indian red is a CSS keyword#CD5C5C205, 92, 920, 53%, 58%