#300313 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 #300313 works with other colors. Named schemes with #300313 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 #300313 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 #300313 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #300313;
--color-base-rgb: 48 3 19;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(20.5% 0.074 4.2);
--color-50: #FEF0F5;
--color-100: #FDD8E5;
--color-200: #FAB2CB;
--color-300: #F07FA7;
--color-400: #E25083;
--color-500: #C82D63;
--color-600: #982A50;
--color-700: #6B243D;
--color-800: #461B2A;
--color-900: #2B131B;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
oxblood: {
50: '#FEF0F5',
100: '#FDD8E5',
200: '#FAB2CB',
300: '#F07FA7',
400: '#E25083',
500: '#C82D63',
600: '#982A50',
700: '#6B243D',
800: '#461B2A',
900: '#2B131B',
},
}
$base: #300313; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FEF0F5; $base-100: #FDD8E5; $base-200: #FAB2CB; $base-300: #F07FA7; $base-400: #E25083; $base-500: #C82D63; $base-600: #982A50; $base-700: #6B243D; $base-800: #461B2A; $base-900: #2B131B; $base-hover: #26020F; $base-subtle: #E88CAC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#300313",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF0F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FDD8E5",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#FAB2CB",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#F07FA7",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#E25083",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#C82D63",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#982A50",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#6B243D",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#461B2A",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#2B131B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}