#280413 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 #280413 works with other colors. Named schemes with #280413 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 #280413 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 #280413 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #280413;
--color-base-rgb: 40 4 19;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(18.9% 0.064 358.6);
--color-50: #FEF0F6;
--color-100: #FCD9E8;
--color-200: #F8B5D1;
--color-300: #ED83AF;
--color-400: #DD558E;
--color-500: #C3326E;
--color-600: #942E58;
--color-700: #692642;
--color-800: #441D2D;
--color-900: #2A141D;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
graphite: {
50: '#FEF0F6',
100: '#FCD9E8',
200: '#F8B5D1',
300: '#ED83AF',
400: '#DD558E',
500: '#C3326E',
600: '#942E58',
700: '#692642',
800: '#441D2D',
900: '#2A141D',
},
}
$base: #280413; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FEF0F6; $base-100: #FCD9E8; $base-200: #F8B5D1; $base-300: #ED83AF; $base-400: #DD558E; $base-500: #C3326E; $base-600: #942E58; $base-700: #692642; $base-800: #441D2D; $base-900: #2A141D; $base-hover: #210310; $base-subtle: #E58EB2;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#280413",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF0F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FCD9E8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F8B5D1",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#ED83AF",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#DD558E",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#C3326E",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#942E58",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#692642",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#441D2D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#2A141D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}