#471122 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 #471122 works with other colors. Named schemes with #471122 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 #471122 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 #471122 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #471122;
--color-base-rgb: 71 17 34;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(27.6% 0.083 5.3);
--color-50: #FCF2F5;
--color-100: #F8DDE6;
--color-200: #EFBDCD;
--color-300: #DF90A9;
--color-400: #CB6786;
--color-500: #B04567;
--color-600: #873B53;
--color-700: #602F3E;
--color-800: #3F222B;
--color-900: #27161C;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
oxblood: {
50: '#FCF2F5',
100: '#F8DDE6',
200: '#EFBDCD',
300: '#DF90A9',
400: '#CB6786',
500: '#B04567',
600: '#873B53',
700: '#602F3E',
800: '#3F222B',
900: '#27161C',
},
}
$base: #471122; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FCF2F5; $base-100: #F8DDE6; $base-200: #EFBDCD; $base-300: #DF90A9; $base-400: #CB6786; $base-500: #B04567; $base-600: #873B53; $base-700: #602F3E; $base-800: #3F222B; $base-900: #27161C; $base-hover: #380E1B; $base-subtle: #DDA2B5;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#471122",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF2F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F8DDE6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EFBDCD",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DF90A9",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#CB6786",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#B04567",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#873B53",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#602F3E",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3F222B",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#27161C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}