#2D2013 is a muted, temperate yellow. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium, restrained and easy to live with. It is too dark to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #2D2013 works with other colors. Named schemes with #2D2013 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 #2D2013 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 #2D2013 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #2D2013;
--color-base-rgb: 45 32 19;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(25.6% 0.030 65.8);
--color-50: #FBF7F4;
--color-100: #F3EBE2;
--color-200: #E7D6C6;
--color-300: #D2B89D;
--color-400: #BB9977;
--color-500: #9E7A56;
--color-600: #7A6147;
--color-700: #584737;
--color-800: #3A3027;
--color-900: #241F19;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
graphite: {
50: '#FBF7F4',
100: '#F3EBE2',
200: '#E7D6C6',
300: '#D2B89D',
400: '#BB9977',
500: '#9E7A56',
600: '#7A6147',
700: '#584737',
800: '#3A3027',
900: '#241F19',
},
}
$base: #2D2013; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FBF7F4; $base-100: #F3EBE2; $base-200: #E7D6C6; $base-300: #D2B89D; $base-400: #BB9977; $base-500: #9E7A56; $base-600: #7A6147; $base-700: #584737; $base-800: #3A3027; $base-900: #241F19; $base-hover: #251B10; $base-subtle: #D1BCA8;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#2D2013",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF7F4",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F3EBE2",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E7D6C6",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D2B89D",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#BB9977",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#9E7A56",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#7A6147",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#584737",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3A3027",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#241F19",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}