#241015 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 #241015 works with other colors. Named schemes with #241015 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 #241015 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 #241015 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #241015;
--color-base-rgb: 36 16 21;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(20.4% 0.034 4.5);
--color-50: #FBF4F6;
--color-100: #F3E2E7;
--color-200: #E6C7CE;
--color-300: #D09FAB;
--color-400: #B87A89;
--color-500: #9C596A;
--color-600: #794955;
--color-700: #573840;
--color-800: #3A272C;
--color-900: #24191C;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
graphite: {
50: '#FBF4F6',
100: '#F3E2E7',
200: '#E6C7CE',
300: '#D09FAB',
400: '#B87A89',
500: '#9C596A',
600: '#794955',
700: '#573840',
800: '#3A272C',
900: '#24191C',
},
}
$base: #241015; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FBF4F6; $base-100: #F3E2E7; $base-200: #E6C7CE; $base-300: #D09FAB; $base-400: #B87A89; $base-500: #9C596A; $base-600: #794955; $base-700: #573840; $base-800: #3A272C; $base-900: #24191C; $base-hover: #1C0D11; $base-subtle: #CEA6B0;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#241015",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF4F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F3E2E7",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E6C7CE",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D09FAB",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#B87A89",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#9C596A",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#794955",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#573840",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3A272C",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#24191C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}