#44071E 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 #44071E works with other colors. Named schemes with #44071E 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 #44071E 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 #44071E at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #44071E;
--color-base-rgb: 68 7 30;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(25.7% 0.092 4.2);
--color-50: #FEF1F6;
--color-100: #FCD9E7;
--color-200: #F7B5CF;
--color-300: #EC83AB;
--color-400: #DC5689;
--color-500: #C2336A;
--color-600: #932E55;
--color-700: #682740;
--color-800: #441D2C;
--color-900: #2A141C;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
oxblood: {
50: '#FEF1F6',
100: '#FCD9E7',
200: '#F7B5CF',
300: '#EC83AB',
400: '#DC5689',
500: '#C2336A',
600: '#932E55',
700: '#682740',
800: '#441D2C',
900: '#2A141C',
},
}
$base: #44071E; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FEF1F6; $base-100: #FCD9E7; $base-200: #F7B5CF; $base-300: #EC83AB; $base-400: #DC5689; $base-500: #C2336A; $base-600: #932E55; $base-700: #682740; $base-800: #441D2C; $base-900: #2A141C; $base-hover: #370619; $base-subtle: #E696B5;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#44071E",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF1F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FCD9E7",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F7B5CF",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#EC83AB",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#DC5689",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#C2336A",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#932E55",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#682740",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#441D2C",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#2A141C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}