Akins Clan (Personal)
Bands: RRRRRBGW · Stripes: R R R R R DB G LT R R R R R DB G LT
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=33
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 33
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2426
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2426
Thread count
DR/42 R6 DR6 R6 DR6 DB38 G44 LB/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #00008B #00008B | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| DR | #800000 #800000 | R #CC0000 | 0.17 |
| G | #008000 #008000 | G #006100 | 0.10 |
| LB | #87CEFA #87CEFA | W #F7F7F7 | 0.18 |
| R | #DC143C #DC143C | R #CC0000 | 0.05 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Akins — ΔT 0.56
- Coffield-Limesand (Personal) — ΔT 0.64
- Sikh — ΔT 0.71
- Heart of the Highlands — ΔT 0.73
- Heart of the Highlands — ΔT 0.74
- Rattray of Lude — ΔT 0.76
- Commonwealth Games Council (Corp.) — ΔT 0.93
- Clare — ΔT 0.93
- Caledonian Brewery Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2315. Earliest known date: pre 1997 Designed by Kinloch Anderson Ltd to commemorate the opening of the new Caledonian Brewery Malting Building. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.99
- Zangenberg (Personal) — ΔT 1.00
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
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