#39101D 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 #39101D works with other colors. Named schemes with #39101D 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 #39101D 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 #39101D at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #39101D;
--color-base-rgb: 57 16 29;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(24.5% 0.066 3.7);
--color-50: #FCF3F6;
--color-100: #F7DFE6;
--color-200: #EDBFCE;
--color-300: #DC93AA;
--color-400: #C76B88;
--color-500: #AC4968;
--color-600: #843E54;
--color-700: #5E313F;
--color-800: #3E232C;
--color-900: #26171C;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
oxblood: {
50: '#FCF3F6',
100: '#F7DFE6',
200: '#EDBFCE',
300: '#DC93AA',
400: '#C76B88',
500: '#AC4968',
600: '#843E54',
700: '#5E313F',
800: '#3E232C',
900: '#26171C',
},
}
$base: #39101D; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FCF3F6; $base-100: #F7DFE6; $base-200: #EDBFCE; $base-300: #DC93AA; $base-400: #C76B88; $base-500: #AC4968; $base-600: #843E54; $base-700: #5E313F; $base-800: #3E232C; $base-900: #26171C; $base-hover: #2D0D17; $base-subtle: #D9A1B3;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#39101D",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF3F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F7DFE6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EDBFCE",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DC93AA",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C76B88",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#AC4968",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#843E54",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5E313F",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3E232C",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#26171C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}