#44152F 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 #44152F works with other colors. Named schemes with #44152F 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 #44152F 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 #44152F at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #44152F;
--color-base-rgb: 68 21 47;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(28.1% 0.080 349.2);
--color-50: #FCF3F8;
--color-100: #F6DFEC;
--color-200: #ECC1D8;
--color-300: #DA95BB;
--color-400: #C56D9D;
--color-500: #A94C7F;
--color-600: #824064;
--color-700: #5D324A;
--color-800: #3D2432;
--color-900: #26171F;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
oxblood: {
50: '#FCF3F8',
100: '#F6DFEC',
200: '#ECC1D8',
300: '#DA95BB',
400: '#C56D9D',
500: '#A94C7F',
600: '#824064',
700: '#5D324A',
800: '#3D2432',
900: '#26171F',
},
}
$base: #44152F; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FCF3F8; $base-100: #F6DFEC; $base-200: #ECC1D8; $base-300: #DA95BB; $base-400: #C56D9D; $base-500: #A94C7F; $base-600: #824064; $base-700: #5D324A; $base-800: #3D2432; $base-900: #26171F; $base-hover: #351025; $base-subtle: #D9A6C2;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#44152F",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF3F8",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F6DFEC",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#ECC1D8",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DA95BB",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C56D9D",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A94C7F",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#824064",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5D324A",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3D2432",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#26171F",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}