#230910 is a muted, warm red. 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 #230910 works with other colors. Named schemes with #230910 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 #230910 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 #230910 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #230910;
--color-base-rgb: 35 9 16;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(18.7% 0.045 5.7);
--color-50: #FCF2F5;
--color-100: #F7DEE5;
--color-200: #EEBECB;
--color-300: #DE92A6;
--color-400: #CA6882;
--color-500: #AE4662;
--color-600: #863C50;
--color-700: #5F303C;
--color-800: #3F222A;
--color-900: #27171B;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
graphite: {
50: '#FCF2F5',
100: '#F7DEE5',
200: '#EEBECB',
300: '#DE92A6',
400: '#CA6882',
500: '#AE4662',
600: '#863C50',
700: '#5F303C',
800: '#3F222A',
900: '#27171B',
},
}
$base: #230910; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FCF2F5; $base-100: #F7DEE5; $base-200: #EEBECB; $base-300: #DE92A6; $base-400: #CA6882; $base-500: #AE4662; $base-600: #863C50; $base-700: #5F303C; $base-800: #3F222A; $base-900: #27171B; $base-hover: #1D080D; $base-subtle: #D99AAB;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#230910",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF2F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F7DEE5",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EEBECB",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DE92A6",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#CA6882",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#AE4662",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#863C50",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5F303C",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3F222A",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#27171B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}