#4C1925 is a deep, warm red. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium. It reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #4C1925 works with other colors. Named schemes with #4C1925 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 #4C1925 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 #4C1925 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #4C1925;
--color-base-rgb: 76 25 37;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(29.7% 0.078 8.7);
--color-50: #FCF3F5;
--color-100: #F5E0E5;
--color-200: #EBC2CB;
--color-300: #D897A6;
--color-400: #C27083;
--color-500: #A64E63;
--color-600: #804250;
--color-700: #5C333D;
--color-800: #3C242A;
--color-900: #25181B;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
oxblood: {
50: '#FCF3F5',
100: '#F5E0E5',
200: '#EBC2CB',
300: '#D897A6',
400: '#C27083',
500: '#A64E63',
600: '#804250',
700: '#5C333D',
800: '#3C242A',
900: '#25181B',
},
}
$base: #4C1925; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FCF3F5; $base-100: #F5E0E5; $base-200: #EBC2CB; $base-300: #D897A6; $base-400: #C27083; $base-500: #A64E63; $base-600: #804250; $base-700: #5C333D; $base-800: #3C242A; $base-900: #25181B; $base-hover: #3D141E; $base-subtle: #D9ABB5;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#4C1925",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF3F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F5E0E5",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EBC2CB",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D897A6",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C27083",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A64E63",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#804250",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5C333D",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3C242A",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#25181B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}