#2B0C19 is a deep, warm 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 #2B0C19 works with other colors. Named schemes with #2B0C19 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 #2B0C19 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 #2B0C19 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #2B0C19;
--color-base-rgb: 43 12 25;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(21.1% 0.054 356.6);
--color-50: #FCF3F7;
--color-100: #F7DFE9;
--color-200: #EDBFD2;
--color-300: #DC93B2;
--color-400: #C76B91;
--color-500: #AC4972;
--color-600: #843E5B;
--color-700: #5E3144;
--color-800: #3E232E;
--color-900: #26171D;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
graphite: {
50: '#FCF3F7',
100: '#F7DFE9',
200: '#EDBFD2',
300: '#DC93B2',
400: '#C76B91',
500: '#AC4972',
600: '#843E5B',
700: '#5E3144',
800: '#3E232E',
900: '#26171D',
},
}
$base: #2B0C19; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FCF3F7; $base-100: #F7DFE9; $base-200: #EDBFD2; $base-300: #DC93B2; $base-400: #C76B91; $base-500: #AC4972; $base-600: #843E5B; $base-700: #5E3144; $base-800: #3E232E; $base-900: #26171D; $base-hover: #230A14; $base-subtle: #D89EB6;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#2B0C19",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF3F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F7DFE9",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EDBFD2",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DC93B2",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C76B91",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#AC4972",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#843E5B",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5E3144",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3E232E",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#26171D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}