#4E2035 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 #4E2035 works with other colors. Named schemes with #4E2035 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 #4E2035 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 #4E2035 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #4E2035;
--color-base-rgb: 78 32 53;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(31.7% 0.074 353.5);
--color-50: #FBF4F7;
--color-100: #F4E2EA;
--color-200: #E7C5D4;
--color-300: #D39CB5;
--color-400: #BC7696;
--color-500: #9F5577;
--color-600: #7B475E;
--color-700: #583646;
--color-800: #3B262F;
--color-900: #24191E;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
tyrian-purple: {
50: '#FBF4F7',
100: '#F4E2EA',
200: '#E7C5D4',
300: '#D39CB5',
400: '#BC7696',
500: '#9F5577',
600: '#7B475E',
700: '#583646',
800: '#3B262F',
900: '#24191E',
},
}
$base: #4E2035; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FBF4F7; $base-100: #F4E2EA; $base-200: #E7C5D4; $base-300: #D39CB5; $base-400: #BC7696; $base-500: #9F5577; $base-600: #7B475E; $base-700: #583646; $base-800: #3B262F; $base-900: #24191E; $base-hover: #401A2B; $base-subtle: #D6B0C1;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#4E2035",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF4F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F4E2EA",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E7C5D4",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D39CB5",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#BC7696",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#9F5577",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#7B475E",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#583646",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3B262F",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#24191E",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}