#340515 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 #340515 works with other colors. Named schemes with #340515 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Oxblood 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 Oxblood as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Oxblood 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.
Oxblood 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.
Oxblood 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 Oxblood carrying the quiet middle.
How #340515 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 #340515 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #340515;
--color-base-rgb: 52 5 21;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(21.7% 0.075 5.3);
--color-50: #FEF0F5;
--color-100: #FCD9E5;
--color-200: #F8B5CB;
--color-300: #ED83A6;
--color-400: #DD5582;
--color-500: #C33262;
--color-600: #942E50;
--color-700: #69263C;
--color-800: #441D2A;
--color-900: #2A141B;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
oxblood: {
50: '#FEF0F5',
100: '#FCD9E5',
200: '#F8B5CB',
300: '#ED83A6',
400: '#DD5582',
500: '#C33262',
600: '#942E50',
700: '#69263C',
800: '#441D2A',
900: '#2A141B',
},
}
$base: #340515; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FEF0F5; $base-100: #FCD9E5; $base-200: #F8B5CB; $base-300: #ED83A6; $base-400: #DD5582; $base-500: #C33262; $base-600: #942E50; $base-700: #69263C; $base-800: #441D2A; $base-900: #2A141B; $base-hover: #290410; $base-subtle: #E590AD;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#340515",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF0F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FCD9E5",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F8B5CB",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#ED83A6",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#DD5582",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#C33262",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#942E50",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#69263C",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#441D2A",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#2A141B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}