#2E0217 is a deep, warm red. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium. It is too dark to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #2E0217 works with other colors. Named schemes with #2E0217 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Deep Purple 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 Deep Purple as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Deep Purple 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.
Deep Purple 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.
Deep Purple 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 Deep Purple carrying the quiet middle.
How #2E0217 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 #2E0217 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #2E0217;
--color-base-rgb: 46 2 23;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(20.0% 0.076 356.2);
--color-50: #FEF0F7;
--color-100: #FDD8EA;
--color-200: #FCB1D5;
--color-300: #F37CB6;
--color-400: #E54D96;
--color-500: #CB2978;
--color-600: #9A285F;
--color-700: #6D2246;
--color-800: #471A30;
--color-900: #2B121E;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
deep-purple: {
50: '#FEF0F7',
100: '#FDD8EA',
200: '#FCB1D5',
300: '#F37CB6',
400: '#E54D96',
500: '#CB2978',
600: '#9A285F',
700: '#6D2246',
800: '#471A30',
900: '#2B121E',
},
}
$base: #2E0217; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FEF0F7; $base-100: #FDD8EA; $base-200: #FCB1D5; $base-300: #F37CB6; $base-400: #E54D96; $base-500: #CB2978; $base-600: #9A285F; $base-700: #6D2246; $base-800: #471A30; $base-900: #2B121E; $base-hover: #230112; $base-subtle: #EA89B8;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#2E0217",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF0F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FDD8EA",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#FCB1D5",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#F37CB6",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#E54D96",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#CB2978",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#9A285F",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#6D2246",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#471A30",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#2B121E",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}