#4E3633 is a muted, warm orange. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium, restrained and easy to live with. It reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #4E3633 works with other colors. Named schemes with #4E3633 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 #4E3633 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 #4E3633 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #4E3633;
--color-base-rgb: 78 54 51;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(36.0% 0.035 27.0);
--color-50: #F9F6F6;
--color-100: #EFE7E6;
--color-200: #DFD0CE;
--color-300: #C5ADAA;
--color-400: #AA8C88;
--color-500: #8D6C68;
--color-600: #6E5754;
--color-700: #50413F;
--color-800: #352D2B;
--color-900: #211C1C;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
taupe: {
50: '#F9F6F6',
100: '#EFE7E6',
200: '#DFD0CE',
300: '#C5ADAA',
400: '#AA8C88',
500: '#8D6C68',
600: '#6E5754',
700: '#50413F',
800: '#352D2B',
900: '#211C1C',
},
}
$base: #4E3633; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F9F6F6; $base-100: #EFE7E6; $base-200: #DFD0CE; $base-300: #C5ADAA; $base-400: #AA8C88; $base-500: #8D6C68; $base-600: #6E5754; $base-700: #50413F; $base-800: #352D2B; $base-900: #211C1C; $base-hover: #3E2B28; $base-subtle: #CFBFBC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#4E3633",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9F6F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#EFE7E6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#DFD0CE",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C5ADAA",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#AA8C88",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#8D6C68",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#6E5754",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#50413F",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#352D2B",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#211C1C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}