#1E1F07 is a muted, temperate green. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium, restrained and easy to live with. It is too dark to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #1E1F07 works with other colors. Named schemes with #1E1F07 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Graphite 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 Graphite as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Graphite 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.
Graphite 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.
Graphite 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 Graphite carrying the quiet middle.
How #1E1F07 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 #1E1F07 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #1E1F07;
--color-base-rgb: 30 31 7;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(23.2% 0.040 111.3);
--color-50: #FCFDF2;
--color-100: #F7F8DD;
--color-200: #EDF0BD;
--color-300: #DCE08F;
--color-400: #C8CD65;
--color-500: #ACB243;
--color-600: #84883A;
--color-700: #5E612E;
--color-800: #3E4021;
--color-900: #262716;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
graphite: {
50: '#FCFDF2',
100: '#F7F8DD',
200: '#EDF0BD',
300: '#DCE08F',
400: '#C8CD65',
500: '#ACB243',
600: '#84883A',
700: '#5E612E',
800: '#3E4021',
900: '#262716',
},
}
$base: #1E1F07; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FCFDF2; $base-100: #F7F8DD; $base-200: #EDF0BD; $base-300: #DCE08F; $base-400: #C8CD65; $base-500: #ACB243; $base-600: #84883A; $base-700: #5E612E; $base-800: #3E4021; $base-900: #262716; $base-hover: #161705; $base-subtle: #D7DA96;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#1E1F07",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCFDF2",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F7F8DD",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EDF0BD",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DCE08F",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C8CD65",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#ACB243",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#84883A",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5E612E",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3E4021",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#262716",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}