#300C19 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 #300C19 works with other colors. Named schemes with #300C19 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 #300C19 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 #300C19 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #300C19;
--color-base-rgb: 48 12 25;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(22.1% 0.061 1.0);
--color-50: #FCF2F6;
--color-100: #F8DEE7;
--color-200: #EFBED0;
--color-300: #DE91AD;
--color-400: #CB678C;
--color-500: #AF466C;
--color-600: #863C57;
--color-700: #602F41;
--color-800: #3F222D;
--color-900: #27161C;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
graphite: {
50: '#FCF2F6',
100: '#F8DEE7',
200: '#EFBED0',
300: '#DE91AD',
400: '#CB678C',
500: '#AF466C',
600: '#863C57',
700: '#602F41',
800: '#3F222D',
900: '#27161C',
},
}
$base: #300C19; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FCF2F6; $base-100: #F8DEE7; $base-200: #EFBED0; $base-300: #DE91AD; $base-400: #CB678C; $base-500: #AF466C; $base-600: #863C57; $base-700: #602F41; $base-800: #3F222D; $base-900: #27161C; $base-hover: #270A15; $base-subtle: #DA9DB3;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#300C19",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF2F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F8DEE7",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EFBED0",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DE91AD",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#CB678C",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#AF466C",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#863C57",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#602F41",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3F222D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#27161C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}