#573841 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 #573841 works with other colors. Named schemes with #573841 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Eggplant anchors this café scheme as the warm mid-tone, lifted by latte cream and a muted sage accent and grounded by espresso brown and a warm charcoal.
Eggplant plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Eggplant sits between cream and a deep berry here, softened by a blush accent and grounded by charcoal.
Eggplant 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.
Eggplant 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 Eggplant carrying the quiet middle.
How #573841 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 #573841 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #573841;
--color-base-rgb: 87 56 65;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(38.0% 0.046 0.6);
--color-50: #F9F6F7;
--color-100: #EFE6E9;
--color-200: #DFCDD2;
--color-300: #C6A9B1;
--color-400: #AB8791;
--color-500: #8E6772;
--color-600: #6F535B;
--color-700: #503F44;
--color-800: #362B2E;
--color-900: #221C1D;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
eggplant: {
50: '#F9F6F7',
100: '#EFE6E9',
200: '#DFCDD2',
300: '#C6A9B1',
400: '#AB8791',
500: '#8E6772',
600: '#6F535B',
700: '#503F44',
800: '#362B2E',
900: '#221C1D',
},
}
$base: #573841; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F9F6F7; $base-100: #EFE6E9; $base-200: #DFCDD2; $base-300: #C6A9B1; $base-400: #AB8791; $base-500: #8E6772; $base-600: #6F535B; $base-700: #503F44; $base-800: #362B2E; $base-900: #221C1D; $base-hover: #462D34; $base-subtle: #D1BFC4;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#573841",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9F6F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#EFE6E9",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#DFCDD2",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C6A9B1",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#AB8791",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#8E6772",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#6F535B",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#503F44",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#362B2E",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#221C1D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}