#36071E 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 #36071E works with other colors. Named schemes with #36071E 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 #36071E 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 #36071E at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #36071E;
--color-base-rgb: 54 7 30;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(22.8% 0.078 355.3);
--color-50: #FEF1F7;
--color-100: #FBDAEA;
--color-200: #F5B7D5;
--color-300: #E986B6;
--color-400: #D95997;
--color-500: #BE3778;
--color-600: #91315F;
--color-700: #662846;
--color-800: #431E30;
--color-900: #29141E;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
oxblood: {
50: '#FEF1F7',
100: '#FBDAEA',
200: '#F5B7D5',
300: '#E986B6',
400: '#D95997',
500: '#BE3778',
600: '#91315F',
700: '#662846',
800: '#431E30',
900: '#29141E',
},
}
$base: #36071E; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FEF1F7; $base-100: #FBDAEA; $base-200: #F5B7D5; $base-300: #E986B6; $base-400: #D95997; $base-500: #BE3778; $base-600: #91315F; $base-700: #662846; $base-800: #431E30; $base-900: #29141E; $base-hover: #2B0618; $base-subtle: #E394BA;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#36071E",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF1F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FBDAEA",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F5B7D5",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#E986B6",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#D95997",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#BE3778",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#91315F",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#662846",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#431E30",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#29141E",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}