#190604 is a muted, warm orange. 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 #190604 works with other colors. Named schemes with #190604 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
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 plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Jet Black holds the warm center of this desert palette with sand and clay beside it, a muted-sage accent and a dark-brown 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 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 #190604 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 #190604 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #190604;
--color-base-rgb: 25 6 4;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(15.5% 0.036 30.6);
--color-50: #FDF3F1;
--color-100: #FADEDB;
--color-200: #F3BFB9;
--color-300: #E69289;
--color-400: #D5695D;
--color-500: #BA483B;
--color-600: #8E3D34;
--color-700: #64302A;
--color-800: #42231F;
--color-900: #281715;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
jet-black: {
50: '#FDF3F1',
100: '#FADEDB',
200: '#F3BFB9',
300: '#E69289',
400: '#D5695D',
500: '#BA483B',
600: '#8E3D34',
700: '#64302A',
800: '#42231F',
900: '#281715',
},
}
$base: #190604; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FDF3F1; $base-100: #FADEDB; $base-200: #F3BFB9; $base-300: #E69289; $base-400: #D5695D; $base-500: #BA483B; $base-600: #8E3D34; $base-700: #64302A; $base-800: #42231F; $base-900: #281715; $base-hover: #150503; $base-subtle: #DE9890;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#190604",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FDF3F1",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FADEDB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F3BFB9",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#E69289",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#D5695D",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#BA483B",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#8E3D34",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#64302A",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#42231F",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#281715",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}