#2F0412 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 #2F0412 works with other colors. Named schemes with #2F0412 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Oxblood 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 Oxblood as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Oxblood 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.
Oxblood 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.
Oxblood 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 Oxblood carrying the quiet middle.
How #2F0412 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 #2F0412 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #2F0412;
--color-base-rgb: 47 4 18;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(20.4% 0.071 5.7);
--color-50: #FEF0F5;
--color-100: #FDD8E5;
--color-200: #F8B4CB;
--color-300: #EE81A6;
--color-400: #DF5382;
--color-500: #C43062;
--color-600: #952D4F;
--color-700: #69253C;
--color-800: #451C2A;
--color-900: #2A131B;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
oxblood: {
50: '#FEF0F5',
100: '#FDD8E5',
200: '#F8B4CB',
300: '#EE81A6',
400: '#DF5382',
500: '#C43062',
600: '#952D4F',
700: '#69253C',
800: '#451C2A',
900: '#2A131B',
},
}
$base: #2F0412; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FEF0F5; $base-100: #FDD8E5; $base-200: #F8B4CB; $base-300: #EE81A6; $base-400: #DF5382; $base-500: #C43062; $base-600: #952D4F; $base-700: #69253C; $base-800: #451C2A; $base-900: #2A131B; $base-hover: #26030F; $base-subtle: #E68EAB;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#2F0412",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF0F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FDD8E5",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F8B4CB",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#EE81A6",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#DF5382",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#C43062",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#952D4F",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#69253C",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#451C2A",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#2A131B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}