#4E3341 is a muted, temperate rose. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, quietly premium. It reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #4E3341 works with other colors. Named schemes with #4E3341 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 #4E3341 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 #4E3341 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #4E3341;
--color-base-rgb: 78 51 65;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(35.8% 0.044 347.2);
--color-50: #F9F6F7;
--color-100: #EFE6EB;
--color-200: #DFCED6;
--color-300: #C5AAB8;
--color-400: #AA889A;
--color-500: #8D687B;
--color-600: #6E5461;
--color-700: #503F48;
--color-800: #352B31;
--color-900: #211C1F;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
taupe: {
50: '#F9F6F7',
100: '#EFE6EB',
200: '#DFCED6',
300: '#C5AAB8',
400: '#AA889A',
500: '#8D687B',
600: '#6E5461',
700: '#503F48',
800: '#352B31',
900: '#211C1F',
},
}
$base: #4E3341; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F9F6F7; $base-100: #EFE6EB; $base-200: #DFCED6; $base-300: #C5AAB8; $base-400: #AA889A; $base-500: #8D687B; $base-600: #6E5461; $base-700: #503F48; $base-800: #352B31; $base-900: #211C1F; $base-hover: #3E2833; $base-subtle: #CFBCC6;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#4E3341",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9F6F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#EFE6EB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#DFCED6",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C5AAB8",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#AA889A",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#8D687B",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#6E5461",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#503F48",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#352B31",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#211C1F",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}