#1B030D is a muted, temperate red. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, quietly premium. It holds up as a large surface and is too dark to lead as a primary accent.
Not just a swatch — here's how #1B030D works with other colors. Named schemes with #1B030D 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 #1B030D 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 #1B030D at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #1B030D;
--color-base-rgb: 27 3 13;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(15.5% 0.049 355.5);
--color-50: #FEF1F6;
--color-100: #FCD9E8;
--color-200: #F7B6D1;
--color-300: #EB84AF;
--color-400: #DB578E;
--color-500: #C1346F;
--color-600: #932F59;
--color-700: #682742;
--color-800: #441D2D;
--color-900: #29141D;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
jet-black: {
50: '#FEF1F6',
100: '#FCD9E8',
200: '#F7B6D1',
300: '#EB84AF',
400: '#DB578E',
500: '#C1346F',
600: '#932F59',
700: '#682742',
800: '#441D2D',
900: '#29141D',
},
}
$base: #1B030D; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FEF1F6; $base-100: #FCD9E8; $base-200: #F7B6D1; $base-300: #EB84AF; $base-400: #DB578E; $base-500: #C1346F; $base-600: #932F59; $base-700: #682742; $base-800: #441D2D; $base-900: #29141D; $base-hover: #16020B; $base-subtle: #E38BB0;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#1B030D",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF1F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FCD9E8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F7B6D1",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#EB84AF",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#DB578E",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#C1346F",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#932F59",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#682742",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#441D2D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#29141D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}