#330C22 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 #330C22 works with other colors. Named schemes with #330C22 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Deep Purple 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 Deep Purple as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Deep Purple 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.
Deep Purple 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.
Deep Purple 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 Deep Purple carrying the quiet middle.
How #330C22 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 #330C22 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #330C22;
--color-base-rgb: 51 12 34;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(23.0% 0.069 349.0);
--color-50: #FDF2F8;
--color-100: #F8DDEC;
--color-200: #EFBDDA;
--color-300: #E090BD;
--color-400: #CC66A0;
--color-500: #B14482;
--color-600: #873A66;
--color-700: #602E4B;
--color-800: #3F2232;
--color-900: #271620;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
deep-purple: {
50: '#FDF2F8',
100: '#F8DDEC',
200: '#EFBDDA',
300: '#E090BD',
400: '#CC66A0',
500: '#B14482',
600: '#873A66',
700: '#602E4B',
800: '#3F2232',
900: '#271620',
},
}
$base: #330C22; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FDF2F8; $base-100: #F8DDEC; $base-200: #EFBDDA; $base-300: #E090BD; $base-400: #CC66A0; $base-500: #B14482; $base-600: #873A66; $base-700: #602E4B; $base-800: #3F2232; $base-900: #271620; $base-hover: #28091B; $base-subtle: #DB9CC0;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#330C22",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FDF2F8",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F8DDEC",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EFBDDA",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#E090BD",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#CC66A0",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#B14482",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#873A66",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#602E4B",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3F2232",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#271620",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}