#39151F 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 #39151F works with other colors. Named schemes with #39151F 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 #39151F 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 #39151F at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #39151F;
--color-base-rgb: 57 21 31;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(25.4% 0.058 4.7);
--color-50: #FBF3F6;
--color-100: #F5E1E6;
--color-200: #E9C4CE;
--color-300: #D59AAB;
--color-400: #BF7388;
--color-500: #A35269;
--color-600: #7E4454;
--color-700: #5A353F;
--color-800: #3C252C;
--color-900: #25181C;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
oxblood: {
50: '#FBF3F6',
100: '#F5E1E6',
200: '#E9C4CE',
300: '#D59AAB',
400: '#BF7388',
500: '#A35269',
600: '#7E4454',
700: '#5A353F',
800: '#3C252C',
900: '#25181C',
},
}
$base: #39151F; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FBF3F6; $base-100: #F5E1E6; $base-200: #E9C4CE; $base-300: #D59AAB; $base-400: #BF7388; $base-500: #A35269; $base-600: #7E4454; $base-700: #5A353F; $base-800: #3C252C; $base-900: #25181C; $base-hover: #2D1119; $base-subtle: #D5A7B4;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#39151F",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF3F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F5E1E6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E9C4CE",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D59AAB",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#BF7388",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A35269",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#7E4454",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5A353F",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3C252C",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#25181C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}