#202106 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 #202106 works with other colors. Named schemes with #202106 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 #202106 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 #202106 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #202106;
--color-base-rgb: 32 33 6;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(24.0% 0.044 111.2);
--color-50: #FDFDF2;
--color-100: #F8F9DC;
--color-200: #F0F2BA;
--color-300: #E1E48B;
--color-400: #CED260;
--color-500: #B3B73E;
--color-600: #898C36;
--color-700: #61632C;
--color-800: #404120;
--color-900: #272815;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
graphite: {
50: '#FDFDF2',
100: '#F8F9DC',
200: '#F0F2BA',
300: '#E1E48B',
400: '#CED260',
500: '#B3B73E',
600: '#898C36',
700: '#61632C',
800: '#404120',
900: '#272815',
},
}
$base: #202106; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FDFDF2; $base-100: #F8F9DC; $base-200: #F0F2BA; $base-300: #E1E48B; $base-400: #CED260; $base-500: #B3B73E; $base-600: #898C36; $base-700: #61632C; $base-800: #404120; $base-900: #272815; $base-hover: #1B1C05; $base-subtle: #DBDE94;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#202106",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FDFDF2",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F8F9DC",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F0F2BA",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#E1E48B",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#CED260",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#B3B73E",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#898C36",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#61632C",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#404120",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#272815",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}