#451122 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 #451122 works with other colors. Named schemes with #451122 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 #451122 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 #451122 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #451122;
--color-base-rgb: 69 17 34;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(27.2% 0.081 4.3);
--color-50: #FCF2F6;
--color-100: #F8DEE6;
--color-200: #EFBECE;
--color-300: #DE91AB;
--color-400: #CB6788;
--color-500: #AF4669;
--color-600: #863C54;
--color-700: #602F3F;
--color-800: #3F222C;
--color-900: #27161C;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
oxblood: {
50: '#FCF2F6',
100: '#F8DEE6',
200: '#EFBECE',
300: '#DE91AB',
400: '#CB6788',
500: '#AF4669',
600: '#863C54',
700: '#602F3F',
800: '#3F222C',
900: '#27161C',
},
}
$base: #451122; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FCF2F6; $base-100: #F8DEE6; $base-200: #EFBECE; $base-300: #DE91AB; $base-400: #CB6788; $base-500: #AF4669; $base-600: #863C54; $base-700: #602F3F; $base-800: #3F222C; $base-900: #27161C; $base-hover: #370E1C; $base-subtle: #DCA3B6;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#451122",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF2F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F8DEE6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EFBECE",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DE91AB",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#CB6788",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#AF4669",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#863C54",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#602F3F",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3F222C",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#27161C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}