#28050D 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 #28050D works with other colors. Named schemes with #28050D 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 #28050D 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 #28050D at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #28050D;
--color-base-rgb: 40 5 13;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(18.8% 0.060 10.3);
--color-50: #FEF1F4;
--color-100: #FBDAE2;
--color-200: #F6B6C5;
--color-300: #EA859D;
--color-400: #DA5877;
--color-500: #BF3656;
--color-600: #913047;
--color-700: #672837;
--color-800: #431E26;
--color-900: #291419;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
graphite: {
50: '#FEF1F4',
100: '#FBDAE2',
200: '#F6B6C5',
300: '#EA859D',
400: '#DA5877',
500: '#BF3656',
600: '#913047',
700: '#672837',
800: '#431E26',
900: '#291419',
},
}
$base: #28050D; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FEF1F4; $base-100: #FBDAE2; $base-200: #F6B6C5; $base-300: #EA859D; $base-400: #DA5877; $base-500: #BF3656; $base-600: #913047; $base-700: #672837; $base-800: #431E26; $base-900: #291419; $base-hover: #21040B; $base-subtle: #E390A3;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#28050D",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF1F4",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FBDAE2",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F6B6C5",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#EA859D",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#DA5877",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#BF3656",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#913047",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#672837",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#431E26",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#291419",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}