#2F0519 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 #2F0519 works with other colors. Named schemes with #2F0519 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 #2F0519 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 #2F0519 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #2F0519;
--color-base-rgb: 47 5 25;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(20.8% 0.072 355.8);
--color-50: #FEF1F7;
--color-100: #FCD9EA;
--color-200: #F7B5D5;
--color-300: #EC83B6;
--color-400: #DC5697;
--color-500: #C23378;
--color-600: #932E5F;
--color-700: #682746;
--color-800: #441D30;
--color-900: #2A141E;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
graphite: {
50: '#FEF1F7',
100: '#FCD9EA',
200: '#F7B5D5',
300: '#EC83B6',
400: '#DC5697',
500: '#C23378',
600: '#932E5F',
700: '#682746',
800: '#441D30',
900: '#2A141E',
},
}
$base: #2F0519; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FEF1F7; $base-100: #FCD9EA; $base-200: #F7B5D5; $base-300: #EC83B6; $base-400: #DC5697; $base-500: #C23378; $base-600: #932E5F; $base-700: #682746; $base-800: #441D30; $base-900: #2A141E; $base-hover: #250414; $base-subtle: #E590B9;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#2F0519",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF1F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FCD9EA",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F7B5D5",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#EC83B6",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#DC5697",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#C23378",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#932E5F",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#682746",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#441D30",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#2A141E",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}