#3D0720 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 #3D0720 works with other colors. Named schemes with #3D0720 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 #3D0720 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 #3D0720 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #3D0720;
--color-base-rgb: 61 7 32;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(24.3% 0.086 357.7);
--color-50: #FEF1F7;
--color-100: #FCDAE9;
--color-200: #F6B6D4;
--color-300: #EB85B4;
--color-400: #DA5895;
--color-500: #C03576;
--color-600: #92305E;
--color-700: #672845;
--color-800: #431D2F;
--color-900: #29141E;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
oxblood: {
50: '#FEF1F7',
100: '#FCDAE9',
200: '#F6B6D4',
300: '#EB85B4',
400: '#DA5895',
500: '#C03576',
600: '#92305E',
700: '#672845',
800: '#431D2F',
900: '#29141E',
},
}
$base: #3D0720; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FEF1F7; $base-100: #FCDAE9; $base-200: #F6B6D4; $base-300: #EB85B4; $base-400: #DA5895; $base-500: #C03576; $base-600: #92305E; $base-700: #672845; $base-800: #431D2F; $base-900: #29141E; $base-hover: #2F0619; $base-subtle: #E494BA;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#3D0720",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF1F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FCDAE9",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F6B6D4",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#EB85B4",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#DA5895",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#C03576",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#92305E",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#672845",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#431D2F",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#29141E",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}