#1D3030 is a muted, temperate cyan. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, quietly premium. It is too dark to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #1D3030 works with other colors. Named schemes with #1D3030 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 #1D3030 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 #1D3030 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #1D3030;
--color-base-rgb: 29 48 48;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(29.3% 0.025 195.9);
--color-50: #F5F9F9;
--color-100: #E5F0F0;
--color-200: #CCE0E0;
--color-300: #A7C8C8;
--color-400: #84AEAE;
--color-500: #649090;
--color-600: #517070;
--color-700: #3D5151;
--color-800: #2A3636;
--color-900: #1B2222;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
gunmetal-gray: {
50: '#F5F9F9',
100: '#E5F0F0',
200: '#CCE0E0',
300: '#A7C8C8',
400: '#84AEAE',
500: '#649090',
600: '#517070',
700: '#3D5151',
800: '#2A3636',
900: '#1B2222',
},
}
$base: #1D3030; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F5F9F9; $base-100: #E5F0F0; $base-200: #CCE0E0; $base-300: #A7C8C8; $base-400: #84AEAE; $base-500: #649090; $base-600: #517070; $base-700: #3D5151; $base-800: #2A3636; $base-900: #1B2222; $base-hover: #172626; $base-subtle: #B2CACA;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#1D3030",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F5F9F9",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E5F0F0",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#CCE0E0",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#A7C8C8",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#84AEAE",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#649090",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#517070",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#3D5151",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#2A3636",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#1B2222",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}