#28071A is a deep, temperate red. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, quietly premium. It is too dark to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #28071A works with other colors. Named schemes with #28071A 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 #28071A 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 #28071A at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #28071A;
--color-base-rgb: 40 7 26;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(19.7% 0.061 348.4);
--color-50: #FDF1F8;
--color-100: #FADBED;
--color-200: #F3BADB;
--color-300: #E58ABF;
--color-400: #D35FA3;
--color-500: #B83D85;
--color-600: #8C3568;
--color-700: #642B4C;
--color-800: #412033;
--color-900: #281520;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
graphite: {
50: '#FDF1F8',
100: '#FADBED',
200: '#F3BADB',
300: '#E58ABF',
400: '#D35FA3',
500: '#B83D85',
600: '#8C3568',
700: '#642B4C',
800: '#412033',
900: '#281520',
},
}
$base: #28071A; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FDF1F8; $base-100: #FADBED; $base-200: #F3BADB; $base-300: #E58ABF; $base-400: #D35FA3; $base-500: #B83D85; $base-600: #8C3568; $base-700: #642B4C; $base-800: #412033; $base-900: #281520; $base-hover: #1F0615; $base-subtle: #DE94C0;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#28071A",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FDF1F8",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FADBED",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F3BADB",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#E58ABF",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#D35FA3",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#B83D85",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#8C3568",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#642B4C",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#412033",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#281520",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}