#2E2115 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 #2E2115 works with other colors. Named schemes with #2E2115 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 #2E2115 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 #2E2115 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #2E2115;
--color-base-rgb: 46 33 21;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(26.0% 0.029 63.7);
--color-50: #FAF7F4;
--color-100: #F3EAE3;
--color-200: #E5D6C7;
--color-300: #CFB7A0;
--color-400: #B8987A;
--color-500: #9B795A;
--color-600: #78604A;
--color-700: #564738;
--color-800: #393028;
--color-900: #241E1A;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
graphite: {
50: '#FAF7F4',
100: '#F3EAE3',
200: '#E5D6C7',
300: '#CFB7A0',
400: '#B8987A',
500: '#9B795A',
600: '#78604A',
700: '#564738',
800: '#393028',
900: '#241E1A',
},
}
$base: #2E2115; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FAF7F4; $base-100: #F3EAE3; $base-200: #E5D6C7; $base-300: #CFB7A0; $base-400: #B8987A; $base-500: #9B795A; $base-600: #78604A; $base-700: #564738; $base-800: #393028; $base-900: #241E1A; $base-hover: #241A11; $base-subtle: #CFBCAA;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#2E2115",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FAF7F4",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F3EAE3",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E5D6C7",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#CFB7A0",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#B8987A",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#9B795A",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#78604A",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#564738",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#393028",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#241E1A",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}