#45152B 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 #45152B works with other colors. Named schemes with #45152B 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 #45152B 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 #45152B at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #45152B;
--color-base-rgb: 69 21 43;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(28.1% 0.078 354.9);
--color-50: #FCF3F7;
--color-100: #F6DFE9;
--color-200: #ECC1D4;
--color-300: #DA95B4;
--color-400: #C56D95;
--color-500: #A94C76;
--color-600: #82405E;
--color-700: #5D3245;
--color-800: #3D242F;
--color-900: #26171E;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
oxblood: {
50: '#FCF3F7',
100: '#F6DFE9',
200: '#ECC1D4',
300: '#DA95B4',
400: '#C56D95',
500: '#A94C76',
600: '#82405E',
700: '#5D3245',
800: '#3D242F',
900: '#26171E',
},
}
$base: #45152B; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FCF3F7; $base-100: #F6DFE9; $base-200: #ECC1D4; $base-300: #DA95B4; $base-400: #C56D95; $base-500: #A94C76; $base-600: #82405E; $base-700: #5D3245; $base-800: #3D242F; $base-900: #26171E; $base-hover: #381123; $base-subtle: #DAA7BE;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#45152B",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF3F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F6DFE9",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#ECC1D4",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DA95B4",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C56D95",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A94C76",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#82405E",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5D3245",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3D242F",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#26171E",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}