#291415 is a muted, temperate red-orange. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium, restrained and easy to live with. It holds up as a large surface and is too dark to lead as a primary accent.
Not just a swatch — here's how #291415 works with other colors. Named schemes with #291415 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 #291415 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 #291415 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #291415;
--color-base-rgb: 41 20 21;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(22.1% 0.035 17.2);
--color-50: #FAF4F5;
--color-100: #F2E3E4;
--color-200: #E4C8CA;
--color-300: #CEA2A4;
--color-400: #B57D80;
--color-500: #985C5F;
--color-600: #764C4E;
--color-700: #553A3B;
--color-800: #392829;
--color-900: #231A1A;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
graphite: {
50: '#FAF4F5',
100: '#F2E3E4',
200: '#E4C8CA',
300: '#CEA2A4',
400: '#B57D80',
500: '#985C5F',
600: '#764C4E',
700: '#553A3B',
800: '#392829',
900: '#231A1A',
},
}
$base: #291415; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FAF4F5; $base-100: #F2E3E4; $base-200: #E4C8CA; $base-300: #CEA2A4; $base-400: #B57D80; $base-500: #985C5F; $base-600: #764C4E; $base-700: #553A3B; $base-800: #392829; $base-900: #231A1A; $base-hover: #211011; $base-subtle: #CDAAAC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#291415",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FAF4F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F2E3E4",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E4C8CA",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#CEA2A4",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#B57D80",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#985C5F",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#764C4E",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#553A3B",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#392829",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#231A1A",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}