#4D2D3C is a deep, temperate red. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, quietly premium. It reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #4D2D3C works with other colors. Named schemes with #4D2D3C in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Taupe 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 Taupe as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Taupe 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.
Taupe 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.
Taupe 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 Taupe carrying the quiet middle.
How #4D2D3C 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 #4D2D3C at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #4D2D3C;
--color-base-rgb: 77 45 60;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(34.2% 0.052 350.6);
--color-50: #FAF5F7;
--color-100: #F0E5EA;
--color-200: #E1CCD5;
--color-300: #C8A7B6;
--color-400: #AF8398;
--color-500: #916479;
--color-600: #715160;
--color-700: #523D47;
--color-800: #372A30;
--color-900: #221B1E;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
taupe: {
50: '#FAF5F7',
100: '#F0E5EA',
200: '#E1CCD5',
300: '#C8A7B6',
400: '#AF8398',
500: '#916479',
600: '#715160',
700: '#523D47',
800: '#372A30',
900: '#221B1E',
},
}
$base: #4D2D3C; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FAF5F7; $base-100: #F0E5EA; $base-200: #E1CCD5; $base-300: #C8A7B6; $base-400: #AF8398; $base-500: #916479; $base-600: #715160; $base-700: #523D47; $base-800: #372A30; $base-900: #221B1E; $base-hover: #3E2430; $base-subtle: #D0B9C4;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#4D2D3C",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FAF5F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F0E5EA",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E1CCD5",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C8A7B6",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#AF8398",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#916479",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#715160",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#523D47",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#372A30",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#221B1E",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}