Wine Red #7B0323

About this color

#7B0323 is a dark, vivid red. In OKLCH its lightness is 37%, its chroma 0.146 and its hue 17°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Wine Red. White text reads best on it, at 11.17:1.

Colors that go with Wine Red

Matches found by rotating Wine Red around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Wine Red

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Wine Red, closest first.

• Mistletoe Feast
• Evergreen Lights
• Candy Cane Garland
• Pinecone and Holly
• Mistletoe Fireside
• Candy Cane Stockings
• Puddle Treasure
• Fireside Evening

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Wine Red, with their ΔE distance.

• Bordeaux #7B002C ΔE 0.014
• Blood #770001 ΔE 0.034
• Maroon #800000 ΔE 0.034
• Merlot #730039 ΔE 0.043
• Red Wine #8C0034 ΔE 0.044
• Wine #80013F ΔE 0.045
• Reddy Brown #6E1005 ΔE 0.045
• Claret #680018 ΔE 0.047

More about Wine Red

• Shades of red
• What red means

How to make Wine Red

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 4 parts red
• 1 part black

Recipe result: #602B30, a difference of ΔE 0.069 from Wine Red. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make red? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Wine Red in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Wine Red

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 900.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FFF2F2

   oklch(97.1% 0.014 17.4)

2. Step 100

   100

   #FFE2E2

   oklch(93.6% 0.032 17.7)

3. Step 200

   200

   #FFCACB

   oklch(88.6% 0.06 17.1)

4. Step 300

   300

   #FFA3A8

   oklch(80.8% 0.109 16.2)

5. Step 400

   400

   #FA6B79

   oklch(70.7% 0.175 16.8)

6. Step 500

   500

   #F23257

   oklch(63.1% 0.224 16.7)

7. Step 600

   600

   #D60042

   oklch(55.6% 0.222 16.7)

8. Step 700

   700

   #B50037

   oklch(49.1% 0.196 16.5)

9. Step 800

   800

   #96002C

   oklch(42.7% 0.171 16.5)

10. Step 900

    900 (this color)

    #7B0323

    oklch(37.2% 0.146 16.6)

11. Step 950

    950

    #4A0A16

    oklch(27% 0.093 16.3)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Wine Red with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.