#4E3339 is a muted, 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 #4E3339 works with other colors. Named schemes with #4E3339 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 #4E3339 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 #4E3339 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #4E3339;
--color-base-rgb: 78 51 57;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(35.5% 0.040 4.7);
--color-50: #F9F6F6;
--color-100: #EFE6E8;
--color-200: #DFCED1;
--color-300: #C5AAB0;
--color-400: #AA888F;
--color-500: #8D6870;
--color-600: #6E5459;
--color-700: #503F43;
--color-800: #352B2E;
--color-900: #211C1D;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
taupe: {
50: '#F9F6F6',
100: '#EFE6E8',
200: '#DFCED1',
300: '#C5AAB0',
400: '#AA888F',
500: '#8D6870',
600: '#6E5459',
700: '#503F43',
800: '#352B2E',
900: '#211C1D',
},
}
$base: #4E3339; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F9F6F6; $base-100: #EFE6E8; $base-200: #DFCED1; $base-300: #C5AAB0; $base-400: #AA888F; $base-500: #8D6870; $base-600: #6E5459; $base-700: #503F43; $base-800: #352B2E; $base-900: #211C1D; $base-hover: #3E282D; $base-subtle: #CFBCC0;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#4E3339",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9F6F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#EFE6E8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#DFCED1",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C5AAB0",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#AA888F",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#8D6870",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#6E5459",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#503F43",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#352B2E",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#211C1D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}