#451027 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 #451027 works with other colors. Named schemes with #451027 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 #451027 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 #451027 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #451027;
--color-base-rgb: 69 16 39;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(27.2% 0.084 357.7);
--color-50: #FDF2F7;
--color-100: #F8DDE9;
--color-200: #EFBDD3;
--color-300: #E090B2;
--color-400: #CC6692;
--color-500: #B14473;
--color-600: #873A5C;
--color-700: #602E44;
--color-800: #3F222E;
--color-900: #27161D;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
oxblood: {
50: '#FDF2F7',
100: '#F8DDE9',
200: '#EFBDD3',
300: '#E090B2',
400: '#CC6692',
500: '#B14473',
600: '#873A5C',
700: '#602E44',
800: '#3F222E',
900: '#27161D',
},
}
$base: #451027; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FDF2F7; $base-100: #F8DDE9; $base-200: #EFBDD3; $base-300: #E090B2; $base-400: #CC6692; $base-500: #B14473; $base-600: #873A5C; $base-700: #602E44; $base-800: #3F222E; $base-900: #27161D; $base-hover: #380D20; $base-subtle: #DDA2BC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#451027",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FDF2F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F8DDE9",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EFBDD3",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#E090B2",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#CC6692",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#B14473",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#873A5C",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#602E44",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3F222E",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#27161D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}