#3F0425 is a deep, warm red. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, quietly premium. It is too dark to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #3F0425 works with other colors. Named schemes with #3F0425 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Deep Purple plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Deep Purple 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.
Deep Purple 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 Deep Purple.
Deep Purple sits between cream and a deep berry here, softened by a blush accent and grounded by charcoal.
Deep Purple 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 Deep Purple carrying the quiet middle.
How #3F0425 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 #3F0425 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #3F0425;
--color-base-rgb: 63 4 37;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(24.6% 0.094 352.4);
--color-50: #FEF0F8;
--color-100: #FDD8ED;
--color-200: #FAB2DB;
--color-300: #F07FBF;
--color-400: #E250A3;
--color-500: #C82D85;
--color-600: #982A68;
--color-700: #6B244C;
--color-800: #461B33;
--color-900: #2B1320;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
deep-purple: {
50: '#FEF0F8',
100: '#FDD8ED',
200: '#FAB2DB',
300: '#F07FBF',
400: '#E250A3',
500: '#C82D85',
600: '#982A68',
700: '#6B244C',
800: '#461B33',
900: '#2B1320',
},
}
$base: #3F0425; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FEF0F8; $base-100: #FDD8ED; $base-200: #FAB2DB; $base-300: #F07FBF; $base-400: #E250A3; $base-500: #C82D85; $base-600: #982A68; $base-700: #6B244C; $base-800: #461B33; $base-900: #2B1320; $base-hover: #32031E; $base-subtle: #E990C2;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#3F0425",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF0F8",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FDD8ED",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#FAB2DB",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#F07FBF",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#E250A3",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#C82D85",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#982A68",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#6B244C",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#461B33",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#2B1320",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}