#310E20 is a deep, temperate 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 #310E20 works with other colors. Named schemes with #310E20 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 #310E20 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 #310E20 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #310E20;
--color-base-rgb: 49 14 32;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(22.9% 0.062 351.1);
--color-50: #FCF3F8;
--color-100: #F7DFEB;
--color-200: #EDBFD7;
--color-300: #DC93B9;
--color-400: #C76B9B;
--color-500: #AC497C;
--color-600: #843E62;
--color-700: #5E3148;
--color-800: #3E2331;
--color-900: #26171F;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
graphite: {
50: '#FCF3F8',
100: '#F7DFEB',
200: '#EDBFD7',
300: '#DC93B9',
400: '#C76B9B',
500: '#AC497C',
600: '#843E62',
700: '#5E3148',
800: '#3E2331',
900: '#26171F',
},
}
$base: #310E20; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FCF3F8; $base-100: #F7DFEB; $base-200: #EDBFD7; $base-300: #DC93B9; $base-400: #C76B9B; $base-500: #AC497C; $base-600: #843E62; $base-700: #5E3148; $base-800: #3E2331; $base-900: #26171F; $base-hover: #260B19; $base-subtle: #D89FBD;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#310E20",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF3F8",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F7DFEB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EDBFD7",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DC93B9",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C76B9B",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#AC497C",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#843E62",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5E3148",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3E2331",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#26171F",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}