#193333 is a muted, temperate cyan. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, quietly premium. It is too muted to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #193333 works with other colors. Named schemes with #193333 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Gunmetal Gray opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Gunmetal Gray keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Gunmetal Gray plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Gunmetal Gray 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.
Gunmetal Gray 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 Gunmetal Gray carrying the quiet middle.
How #193333 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 #193333 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #193333;
--color-base-rgb: 25 51 51;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(30.0% 0.032 195.6);
--color-50: #F4FAFA;
--color-100: #E3F2F2;
--color-200: #C8E4E4;
--color-300: #A2CECE;
--color-400: #7DB5B5;
--color-500: #5C9898;
--color-600: #4C7676;
--color-700: #3A5555;
--color-800: #283939;
--color-900: #1A2323;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
gunmetal-gray: {
50: '#F4FAFA',
100: '#E3F2F2',
200: '#C8E4E4',
300: '#A2CECE',
400: '#7DB5B5',
500: '#5C9898',
600: '#4C7676',
700: '#3A5555',
800: '#283939',
900: '#1A2323',
},
}
$base: #193333; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F4FAFA; $base-100: #E3F2F2; $base-200: #C8E4E4; $base-300: #A2CECE; $base-400: #7DB5B5; $base-500: #5C9898; $base-600: #4C7676; $base-700: #3A5555; $base-800: #283939; $base-900: #1A2323; $base-hover: #142929; $base-subtle: #ADCFCF;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#193333",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F4FAFA",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E3F2F2",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C8E4E4",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#A2CECE",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#7DB5B5",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#5C9898",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#4C7676",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#3A5555",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#283939",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#1A2323",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}