#404129 is a muted, temperate green. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium, restrained and easy to live with. It reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #404129 works with other colors. Named schemes with #404129 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Taupe 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 Taupe as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Taupe 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.
Taupe 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.
Taupe 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 Taupe carrying the quiet middle.
How #404129 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 #404129 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #404129;
--color-base-rgb: 64 65 41;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(36.7% 0.038 110.2);
--color-50: #F9F9F5;
--color-100: #EFF0E6;
--color-200: #DFE0CD;
--color-300: #C5C6A9;
--color-400: #AAAC86;
--color-500: #8D8F66;
--color-600: #6E6F53;
--color-700: #50513E;
--color-800: #35362B;
--color-900: #21221B;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
taupe: {
50: '#F9F9F5',
100: '#EFF0E6',
200: '#DFE0CD',
300: '#C5C6A9',
400: '#AAAC86',
500: '#8D8F66',
600: '#6E6F53',
700: '#50513E',
800: '#35362B',
900: '#21221B',
},
}
$base: #404129; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F9F9F5; $base-100: #EFF0E6; $base-200: #DFE0CD; $base-300: #C5C6A9; $base-400: #AAAC86; $base-500: #8D8F66; $base-600: #6E6F53; $base-700: #50513E; $base-800: #35362B; $base-900: #21221B; $base-hover: #343521; $base-subtle: #CCCDB8;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#404129",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9F9F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#EFF0E6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#DFE0CD",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C5C6A9",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#AAAC86",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#8D8F66",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#6E6F53",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#50513E",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#35362B",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#21221B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}