#2A1893 is a deep, cool violet. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, quietly premium. It sits well as a supporting tone.
Not just a swatch — here's how #2A1893 works with other colors. Named schemes with #2A1893 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Zaffre 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.
Zaffre adds the colour to this moody editorial scheme — charcoal and a mid-grey around it, a bone highlight, and a muted jewel accent drawn from Zaffre.
Zaffre opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Zaffre plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Zaffre 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 Zaffre carrying the quiet middle.
How #2A1893 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 #2A1893 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #2A1893;
--color-base-rgb: 42 24 147;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(34.0% 0.184 276.9);
--color-50: #F3F1FD;
--color-100: #E0DBFA;
--color-200: #C2B9F3;
--color-300: #9789E6;
--color-400: #6F5DD5;
--color-500: #4E3BBA;
--color-600: #42348E;
--color-700: #332A64;
--color-800: #241F42;
--color-900: #181528;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
zaffre: {
50: '#F3F1FD',
100: '#E0DBFA',
200: '#C2B9F3',
300: '#9789E6',
400: '#6F5DD5',
500: '#4E3BBA',
600: '#42348E',
700: '#332A64',
800: '#241F42',
900: '#181528',
},
}
$base: #2A1893; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F3F1FD; $base-100: #E0DBFA; $base-200: #C2B9F3; $base-300: #9789E6; $base-400: #6F5DD5; $base-500: #4E3BBA; $base-600: #42348E; $base-700: #332A64; $base-800: #241F42; $base-900: #181528; $base-hover: #221377; $base-subtle: #B9B1E8;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#2A1893",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F3F1FD",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E0DBFA",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C2B9F3",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#9789E6",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#6F5DD5",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#4E3BBA",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#42348E",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#332A64",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#241F42",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#181528",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}