#4D2139 is a deep, warm red. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, quietly premium. It reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #4D2139 works with other colors. Named schemes with #4D2139 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Tyrian Purple 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 Tyrian Purple as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Tyrian Purple 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.
Tyrian Purple 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.
Tyrian Purple 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 Tyrian Purple carrying the quiet middle.
How #4D2139 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 #4D2139 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #4D2139;
--color-base-rgb: 77 33 57;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(31.9% 0.074 348.2);
--color-50: #FBF4F8;
--color-100: #F3E2EB;
--color-200: #E6C6D8;
--color-300: #D19EBA;
--color-400: #BA789C;
--color-500: #9E577E;
--color-600: #7A4863;
--color-700: #583749;
--color-800: #3A2731;
--color-900: #24191F;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
tyrian-purple: {
50: '#FBF4F8',
100: '#F3E2EB',
200: '#E6C6D8',
300: '#D19EBA',
400: '#BA789C',
500: '#9E577E',
600: '#7A4863',
700: '#583749',
800: '#3A2731',
900: '#24191F',
},
}
$base: #4D2139; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FBF4F8; $base-100: #F3E2EB; $base-200: #E6C6D8; $base-300: #D19EBA; $base-400: #BA789C; $base-500: #9E577E; $base-600: #7A4863; $base-700: #583749; $base-800: #3A2731; $base-900: #24191F; $base-hover: #3F1B2F; $base-subtle: #D5B1C5;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#4D2139",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF4F8",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F3E2EB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E6C6D8",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D19EBA",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#BA789C",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#9E577E",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#7A4863",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#583749",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3A2731",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#24191F",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}