#39161C is a deep, warm red. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium, restrained and easy to live with. It is too dark to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #39161C works with other colors. Named schemes with #39161C 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 #39161C 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 #39161C at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #39161C;
--color-base-rgb: 57 22 28;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(25.5% 0.056 11.2);
--color-50: #FBF4F5;
--color-100: #F4E1E4;
--color-200: #E8C4CA;
--color-300: #D49BA5;
--color-400: #BD7581;
--color-500: #A15461;
--color-600: #7C464F;
--color-700: #59363C;
--color-800: #3B2629;
--color-900: #25191B;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
oxblood: {
50: '#FBF4F5',
100: '#F4E1E4',
200: '#E8C4CA',
300: '#D49BA5',
400: '#BD7581',
500: '#A15461',
600: '#7C464F',
700: '#59363C',
800: '#3B2629',
900: '#25191B',
},
}
$base: #39161C; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FBF4F5; $base-100: #F4E1E4; $base-200: #E8C4CA; $base-300: #D49BA5; $base-400: #BD7581; $base-500: #A15461; $base-600: #7C464F; $base-700: #59363C; $base-800: #3B2629; $base-900: #25191B; $base-hover: #2C1116; $base-subtle: #D4A8AF;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#39161C",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF4F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F4E1E4",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E8C4CA",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D49BA5",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#BD7581",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A15461",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#7C464F",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#59363C",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3B2629",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#25191B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}