#260310 is a deep, warm red. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium. It is too dark to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #260310 works with other colors. Named schemes with #260310 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Jet Black 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 Jet Black as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Jet Black 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.
Jet Black 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.
Jet Black 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 Jet Black carrying the quiet middle.
How #260310 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 #260310 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #260310;
--color-base-rgb: 38 3 16;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(18.1% 0.063 1.2);
--color-50: #FEF0F5;
--color-100: #FDD8E6;
--color-200: #F9B4CD;
--color-300: #EE81A9;
--color-400: #DF5386;
--color-500: #C53066;
--color-600: #962C53;
--color-700: #6A253E;
--color-800: #451C2B;
--color-900: #2A131C;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
jet-black: {
50: '#FEF0F5',
100: '#FDD8E6',
200: '#F9B4CD',
300: '#EE81A9',
400: '#DF5386',
500: '#C53066',
600: '#962C53',
700: '#6A253E',
800: '#451C2B',
900: '#2A131C',
},
}
$base: #260310; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FEF0F5; $base-100: #FDD8E6; $base-200: #F9B4CD; $base-300: #EE81A9; $base-400: #DF5386; $base-500: #C53066; $base-600: #962C53; $base-700: #6A253E; $base-800: #451C2B; $base-900: #2A131C; $base-hover: #1E020D; $base-subtle: #E68BAC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#260310",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF0F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FDD8E6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F9B4CD",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#EE81A9",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#DF5386",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#C53066",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#962C53",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#6A253E",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#451C2B",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#2A131C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}