#45152D 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 #45152D works with other colors. Named schemes with #45152D 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 #45152D 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 #45152D at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #45152D;
--color-base-rgb: 69 21 45;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(28.1% 0.079 352.4);
--color-50: #FCF3F7;
--color-100: #F6DFEB;
--color-200: #ECC1D6;
--color-300: #DA95B8;
--color-400: #C56D99;
--color-500: #A94C7A;
--color-600: #824061;
--color-700: #5D3247;
--color-800: #3D2430;
--color-900: #26171F;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
oxblood: {
50: '#FCF3F7',
100: '#F6DFEB',
200: '#ECC1D6',
300: '#DA95B8',
400: '#C56D99',
500: '#A94C7A',
600: '#824061',
700: '#5D3247',
800: '#3D2430',
900: '#26171F',
},
}
$base: #45152D; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FCF3F7; $base-100: #F6DFEB; $base-200: #ECC1D6; $base-300: #DA95B8; $base-400: #C56D99; $base-500: #A94C7A; $base-600: #824061; $base-700: #5D3247; $base-800: #3D2430; $base-900: #26171F; $base-hover: #381125; $base-subtle: #DAA7C0;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#45152D",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF3F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F6DFEB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#ECC1D6",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DA95B8",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C56D99",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A94C7A",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#824061",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5D3247",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3D2430",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#26171F",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}