#331118 is a deep, warm red. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium, restrained and easy to live with. It is too dark to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #331118 works with other colors. Named schemes with #331118 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 #331118 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 #331118 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #331118;
--color-base-rgb: 51 17 24;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(23.4% 0.055 9.6);
--color-50: #FCF3F5;
--color-100: #F5E0E4;
--color-200: #EBC2CA;
--color-300: #D897A4;
--color-400: #C27080;
--color-500: #A64E60;
--color-600: #80424E;
--color-700: #5C333B;
--color-800: #3C2429;
--color-900: #25181B;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
graphite: {
50: '#FCF3F5',
100: '#F5E0E4',
200: '#EBC2CA',
300: '#D897A4',
400: '#C27080',
500: '#A64E60',
600: '#80424E',
700: '#5C333B',
800: '#3C2429',
900: '#25181B',
},
}
$base: #331118; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FCF3F5; $base-100: #F5E0E4; $base-200: #EBC2CA; $base-300: #D897A4; $base-400: #C27080; $base-500: #A64E60; $base-600: #80424E; $base-700: #5C333B; $base-800: #3C2429; $base-900: #25181B; $base-hover: #280D13; $base-subtle: #D6A3AD;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#331118",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF3F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F5E0E4",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EBC2CA",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D897A4",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C27080",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A64E60",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#80424E",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5C333B",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3C2429",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#25181B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}