#39181F 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 #39181F works with other colors. Named schemes with #39181F 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 #39181F 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 #39181F at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #39181F;
--color-base-rgb: 57 24 31;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(26.0% 0.053 8.0);
--color-50: #FBF4F5;
--color-100: #F3E2E6;
--color-200: #E7C6CD;
--color-300: #D29DA9;
--color-400: #BB7786;
--color-500: #9E5666;
--color-600: #7A4752;
--color-700: #58373E;
--color-800: #3A272B;
--color-900: #24191B;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
oxblood: {
50: '#FBF4F5',
100: '#F3E2E6',
200: '#E7C6CD',
300: '#D29DA9',
400: '#BB7786',
500: '#9E5666',
600: '#7A4752',
700: '#58373E',
800: '#3A272B',
900: '#24191B',
},
}
$base: #39181F; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FBF4F5; $base-100: #F3E2E6; $base-200: #E7C6CD; $base-300: #D29DA9; $base-400: #BB7786; $base-500: #9E5666; $base-600: #7A4752; $base-700: #58373E; $base-800: #3A272B; $base-900: #24191B; $base-hover: #2E1319; $base-subtle: #D3ABB3;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#39181F",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF4F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F3E2E6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E7C6CD",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D29DA9",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#BB7786",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#9E5666",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#7A4752",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#58373E",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3A272B",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#24191B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}