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Wine Color Codes

Wine is a dark, muted red with the hex code #722F37, RGB values of 114, 47, 55 and an HSL value of hsl(353, 42%, 32%).

HEX#722F37
RGB114, 47, 55
HSLhsl(353, 42%, 32%)
HSV353°, 59%, 45%
CMYK0%, 59%, 52%, 55%
LAB29.13, 30.36, 9.72
CIELCHuv29.13, 44.63, 6.85°
Nearest Pantone
PMS 198 C ΔE 3.5 · approximate
Nearest CSS name
brown ΔE 29.6

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Wine Color Hex Code

The Wine color hex code is #722F37. Those six digits are three pairs, 72 for red, 2F for green and 37 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#722F37

Wine Color RGB Code

The Wine RGB code is rgb(114, 47, 55). Red carries the most light at 114 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(114, 47, 55)

Wine Color HSV Code

The Wine HSV code is 353°, 59%, 45%. Read it as a hue of 353 degrees, 59% saturation and 45% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

353°, 59%, 45%

Wine Color CIELChuv Code

The Wine CIELCHuv code is 29.13, 44.63, 6.85°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 29 means dark to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 45 is how far it sits from grey.

29.13, 44.63, 6.85°

Tonal scale

What are Wine Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

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Palettes

What are Wine Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #722F37. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Half a turn away is #2F726A, a dark, muted teal. This is the widest separation the wheel offers, and the reason complementary pairs are the default for anything that must stand out. Neither is especially saturated, so this pairing stays calm enough for large areas of both.

Analogous

Either side sit #722F59 and #72492F, 30 degrees out. Low tension by construction: useful when you need several related tones that still feel like one choice.

Triadic

#37722F and #2F3772 complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #2F7249 and #2F5972. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #2F726A, and #59722F with #492F72. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.

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Accessibility

Contrast checker: is Wine accessible?

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

9.65:1

9.65

contrast ratio on white background

ElementAAAAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 Passes Passes
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 Passes Passes
UI component needs 3:1 Passes n/a

Black background

2.18:1

2.18

contrast ratio on black background

ElementAAAAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 Fails Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 Fails Fails
UI component needs 3:1 Fails n/a

Wine clears WCAG AA against white at 9.65:1, so it is safe for body copy as well as headings. Text placed on it should be white, which gives 9.65:1.

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Color vision

How Wine looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men
actual

#5C5C35

Wine changes substantially here. ΔE 40.1

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men
actual

#606435

Wine changes substantially here. ΔE 44.6

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000
actual

#703433

Wine shifts slightly here. ΔE 5.3

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000
actual

#454545

Wine changes substantially here. ΔE 31.9

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

To a deuteranope, the most common form, Wine reads as #606435. That is a shift of ΔE 44.6, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. It sits in the red end of the spectrum, which is exactly where red-green deficiency does its damage. Never pair it with a green of similar lightness to signal a difference in meaning: to a large minority the two become one color. The widest shift is under deuteranopia, at ΔE 44.6. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

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Snippets

Using Wine in code

:root {
  --wine: #722F37;
}

.example {
  color: var(--wine);
}