#340B15 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 #340B15 works with other colors. Named schemes with #340B15 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 #340B15 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 #340B15 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #340B15;
--color-base-rgb: 52 11 21;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(22.6% 0.066 9.5);
--color-50: #FDF2F5;
--color-100: #F9DDE4;
--color-200: #F1BCC9;
--color-300: #E28EA3;
--color-400: #CF637E;
--color-500: #B4415E;
--color-600: #89384D;
--color-700: #622D3A;
--color-800: #402129;
--color-900: #27161A;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
oxblood: {
50: '#FDF2F5',
100: '#F9DDE4',
200: '#F1BCC9',
300: '#E28EA3',
400: '#CF637E',
500: '#B4415E',
600: '#89384D',
700: '#622D3A',
800: '#402129',
900: '#27161A',
},
}
$base: #340B15; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FDF2F5; $base-100: #F9DDE4; $base-200: #F1BCC9; $base-300: #E28EA3; $base-400: #CF637E; $base-500: #B4415E; $base-600: #89384D; $base-700: #622D3A; $base-800: #402129; $base-900: #27161A; $base-hover: #280911; $base-subtle: #DD9AAB;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#340B15",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FDF2F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F9DDE4",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F1BCC9",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#E28EA3",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#CF637E",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#B4415E",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#89384D",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#622D3A",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#402129",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#27161A",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}