#190308 is a muted, temperate red. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium, restrained and easy to live with. It holds up as a large surface and is too dark to lead as a primary accent.
Not just a swatch — here's how #190308 works with other colors. Named schemes with #190308 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Jet Black plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
This palette keeps Jet Black as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Jet Black sets a calm, sun-bleached base here, wrapped in bone and paper off-whites and a soft greige, with a single ink accent for wabi-sabi restraint.
Jet Black carries the depth in this luxury scheme, offset by a brass accent and near-black and held together by a deep neutral and an off-white surface.
Jet Black is the single accent in this high-contrast editorial system — set on near-white paper against near-black ink, with a warm grey and a desaturated tint of Jet Black carrying the quiet middle.
How #190308 actually behaves in design work — read from its OKLCH lightness, chroma and hue, not just its raw numbers. Ten signals to help you decide where this color earns its place.
Not a swatch to memorise — a color to build with. Here is #190308 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #190308;
--color-base-rgb: 25 3 8;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(14.8% 0.044 6.0);
--color-50: #FEF1F4;
--color-100: #FCDAE2;
--color-200: #F6B6C5;
--color-300: #EB859C;
--color-400: #DA5876;
--color-500: #C03555;
--color-600: #923047;
--color-700: #672836;
--color-800: #431D26;
--color-900: #291419;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
jet-black: {
50: '#FEF1F4',
100: '#FCDAE2',
200: '#F6B6C5',
300: '#EB859C',
400: '#DA5876',
500: '#C03555',
600: '#923047',
700: '#672836',
800: '#431D26',
900: '#291419',
},
}
$base: #190308; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FEF1F4; $base-100: #FCDAE2; $base-200: #F6B6C5; $base-300: #EB859C; $base-400: #DA5876; $base-500: #C03555; $base-600: #923047; $base-700: #672836; $base-800: #431D26; $base-900: #291419; $base-hover: #120206; $base-subtle: #E28B9F;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#190308",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF1F4",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FCDAE2",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F6B6C5",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#EB859C",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#DA5876",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#C03555",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#923047",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#672836",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#431D26",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#291419",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}