Antique Port Wine
#98211a
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#98211a
RGB
152, 33, 26
OKLCh
44.6% 0.156 28.6°
CIELAB (D50)
34.3, 48.7, 36.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 85% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 86.9; on black, Lc -15.2. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 32.5 and 36.7 and 40.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.18:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.57:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.18:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#98211a
protanopia
#3e3e1c · ΔE00 32.5
deuteranopia
#5a5a0c · ΔE00 36.7
tritanopia
#707000 · ΔE00 40.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBleeding Crimson at ΔE00 1.433: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Bleeding CrimsonΔE00 1.433 · #9b1414
- Spartan CrimsonΔE00 1.604 · #9e1316
- Mephiston RedΔE00 1.626 · #9a1115
- Clotted RedΔE00 1.667 · #991115
- CarnivoreΔE00 1.831 · #991111
- Heavy RedΔE00 1.878 · #9e1212
- Red VitalityΔE00 1.894 · #9f1a1d
- Vampire FictionΔE00 1.904 · #9b0f11
- Red BirchΔE00 2.075 · #9d2b22
- EmergencyΔE00 2.203 · #911911
- Manchester NightsΔE00 2.214 · #992222
- Noble CauseΔE00 2.439 · #990c0d
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.