#3D3F4E is a muted, temperate violet. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, quietly premium. It reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #3D3F4E works with other colors. Named schemes with #3D3F4E in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Charcoal plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Charcoal 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.
Charcoal 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.
Charcoal adds the colour to this moody editorial scheme — charcoal and a mid-grey around it, a bone highlight, and a muted jewel accent drawn from Charcoal.
Charcoal 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 Charcoal carrying the quiet middle.
How #3D3F4E 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 #3D3F4E at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #3D3F4E;
--color-base-rgb: 61 63 78;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(37.2% 0.026 279.1);
--color-50: #F6F7F8;
--color-100: #E8E9ED;
--color-200: #D1D2DB;
--color-300: #B0B2BF;
--color-400: #8F91A3;
--color-500: #707285;
--color-600: #595B68;
--color-700: #43444C;
--color-800: #2E2E33;
--color-900: #1D1D20;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
charcoal: {
50: '#F6F7F8',
100: '#E8E9ED',
200: '#D1D2DB',
300: '#B0B2BF',
400: '#8F91A3',
500: '#707285',
600: '#595B68',
700: '#43444C',
800: '#2E2E33',
900: '#1D1D20',
},
}
$base: #3D3F4E; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F6F7F8; $base-100: #E8E9ED; $base-200: #D1D2DB; $base-300: #B0B2BF; $base-400: #8F91A3; $base-500: #707285; $base-600: #595B68; $base-700: #43444C; $base-800: #2E2E33; $base-900: #1D1D20; $base-hover: #30323E; $base-subtle: #C2C3CC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#3D3F4E",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F6F7F8",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E8E9ED",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#D1D2DB",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#B0B2BF",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#8F91A3",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#707285",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#595B68",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#43444C",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#2E2E33",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#1D1D20",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}