#331123 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 #331123 works with other colors. Named schemes with #331123 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 #331123 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 #331123 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #331123;
--color-base-rgb: 51 17 35;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(23.8% 0.060 349.7);
--color-50: #FCF3F8;
--color-100: #F5E0EB;
--color-200: #EBC2D8;
--color-300: #D897BA;
--color-400: #C2709C;
--color-500: #A64E7D;
--color-600: #804263;
--color-700: #5C3349;
--color-800: #3C2431;
--color-900: #25181F;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
graphite: {
50: '#FCF3F8',
100: '#F5E0EB',
200: '#EBC2D8',
300: '#D897BA',
400: '#C2709C',
500: '#A64E7D',
600: '#804263',
700: '#5C3349',
800: '#3C2431',
900: '#25181F',
},
}
$base: #331123; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FCF3F8; $base-100: #F5E0EB; $base-200: #EBC2D8; $base-300: #D897BA; $base-400: #C2709C; $base-500: #A64E7D; $base-600: #804263; $base-700: #5C3349; $base-800: #3C2431; $base-900: #25181F; $base-hover: #280D1B; $base-subtle: #D6A3BE;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#331123",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF3F8",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F5E0EB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EBC2D8",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D897BA",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C2709C",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A64E7D",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#804263",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5C3349",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3C2431",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#25181F",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}