#340C19 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 #340C19 works with other colors. Named schemes with #340C19 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 #340C19 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 #340C19 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #340C19;
--color-base-rgb: 52 12 25;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(22.8% 0.065 3.9);
--color-50: #FDF2F5;
--color-100: #F8DDE6;
--color-200: #F0BDCD;
--color-300: #E08FA9;
--color-400: #CD6586;
--color-500: #B24366;
--color-600: #883A53;
--color-700: #612E3E;
--color-800: #40212B;
--color-900: #27161B;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
oxblood: {
50: '#FDF2F5',
100: '#F8DDE6',
200: '#F0BDCD',
300: '#E08FA9',
400: '#CD6586',
500: '#B24366',
600: '#883A53',
700: '#612E3E',
800: '#40212B',
900: '#27161B',
},
}
$base: #340C19; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FDF2F5; $base-100: #F8DDE6; $base-200: #F0BDCD; $base-300: #E08FA9; $base-400: #CD6586; $base-500: #B24366; $base-600: #883A53; $base-700: #612E3E; $base-800: #40212B; $base-900: #27161B; $base-hover: #2B0A14; $base-subtle: #DC9DB1;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#340C19",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FDF2F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F8DDE6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F0BDCD",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#E08FA9",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#CD6586",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#B24366",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#883A53",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#612E3E",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#40212B",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#27161B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}