#413131 is a muted, temperate red-orange. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium, restrained and easy to live with. It is too muted to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #413131 works with other colors. Named schemes with #413131 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Onyx 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 Onyx as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Onyx 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.
Onyx 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.
Onyx 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 Onyx carrying the quiet middle.
How #413131 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 #413131 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #413131;
--color-base-rgb: 65 49 49;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(33.1% 0.023 18.4);
--color-50: #F9F6F6;
--color-100: #EEE8E8;
--color-200: #DCD1D1;
--color-300: #C1AFAF;
--color-400: #A58D8D;
--color-500: #876E6E;
--color-600: #6A5858;
--color-700: #4D4242;
--color-800: #342D2D;
--color-900: #201D1D;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
onyx: {
50: '#F9F6F6',
100: '#EEE8E8',
200: '#DCD1D1',
300: '#C1AFAF',
400: '#A58D8D',
500: '#876E6E',
600: '#6A5858',
700: '#4D4242',
800: '#342D2D',
900: '#201D1D',
},
}
$base: #413131; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F9F6F6; $base-100: #EEE8E8; $base-200: #DCD1D1; $base-300: #C1AFAF; $base-400: #A58D8D; $base-500: #876E6E; $base-600: #6A5858; $base-700: #4D4242; $base-800: #342D2D; $base-900: #201D1D; $base-hover: #332727; $base-subtle: #CABDBD;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#413131",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9F6F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#EEE8E8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#DCD1D1",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C1AFAF",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#A58D8D",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#876E6E",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#6A5858",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#4D4242",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#342D2D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#201D1D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}