#1E080F 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 #1E080F works with other colors. Named schemes with #1E080F 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 #1E080F 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 #1E080F at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #1E080F;
--color-base-rgb: 30 8 15;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(17.4% 0.040 1.8);
--color-50: #FCF2F6;
--color-100: #F7DEE6;
--color-200: #EEBFCE;
--color-300: #DD92AA;
--color-400: #C96987;
--color-500: #AD4768;
--color-600: #853D54;
--color-700: #5F303F;
--color-800: #3E232B;
--color-900: #26171C;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
jet-black: {
50: '#FCF2F6',
100: '#F7DEE6',
200: '#EEBFCE',
300: '#DD92AA',
400: '#C96987',
500: '#AD4768',
600: '#853D54',
700: '#5F303F',
800: '#3E232B',
900: '#26171C',
},
}
$base: #1E080F; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FCF2F6; $base-100: #F7DEE6; $base-200: #EEBFCE; $base-300: #DD92AA; $base-400: #C96987; $base-500: #AD4768; $base-600: #853D54; $base-700: #5F303F; $base-800: #3E232B; $base-900: #26171C; $base-hover: #17060B; $base-subtle: #D798AC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#1E080F",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF2F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F7DEE6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EEBFCE",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DD92AA",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C96987",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#AD4768",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#853D54",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5F303F",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3E232B",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#26171C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}