#211015 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 #211015 works with other colors. Named schemes with #211015 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 #211015 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 #211015 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #211015;
--color-base-rgb: 33 16 21;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(19.9% 0.030 1.1);
--color-50: #FAF4F6;
--color-100: #F2E3E8;
--color-200: #E4C8D1;
--color-300: #CEA1AF;
--color-400: #B67C8D;
--color-500: #995C6E;
--color-600: #774B58;
--color-700: #563942;
--color-800: #39282D;
--color-900: #231A1D;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
graphite: {
50: '#FAF4F6',
100: '#F2E3E8',
200: '#E4C8D1',
300: '#CEA1AF',
400: '#B67C8D',
500: '#995C6E',
600: '#774B58',
700: '#563942',
800: '#39282D',
900: '#231A1D',
},
}
$base: #211015; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FAF4F6; $base-100: #F2E3E8; $base-200: #E4C8D1; $base-300: #CEA1AF; $base-400: #B67C8D; $base-500: #995C6E; $base-600: #774B58; $base-700: #563942; $base-800: #39282D; $base-900: #231A1D; $base-hover: #1C0D12; $base-subtle: #CCA8B3;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#211015",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FAF4F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F2E3E8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E4C8D1",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#CEA1AF",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#B67C8D",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#995C6E",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#774B58",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#563942",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#39282D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#231A1D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}