#682F4E is a mid-toned, warm red. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, with a faded, vintage edge. It carries a legible label as a UI accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #682F4E works with other colors. Named schemes with #682F4E in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Byzantium 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.
Byzantium plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Byzantium sits between cream and a deep berry here, softened by a blush accent and grounded by charcoal.
Byzantium 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.
Byzantium 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 Byzantium carrying the quiet middle.
How #682F4E 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 #682F4E at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #682F4E;
--color-base-rgb: 104 47 78;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(39.3% 0.091 348.3);
--color-50: #FBF4F8;
--color-100: #F3E2EB;
--color-200: #E6C7D8;
--color-300: #D09FBA;
--color-400: #B87A9C;
--color-500: #9C597E;
--color-600: #794963;
--color-700: #573849;
--color-800: #3A2731;
--color-900: #24191F;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
byzantium: {
50: '#FBF4F8',
100: '#F3E2EB',
200: '#E6C7D8',
300: '#D09FBA',
400: '#B87A9C',
500: '#9C597E',
600: '#794963',
700: '#573849',
800: '#3A2731',
900: '#24191F',
},
}
$base: #682F4E; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FBF4F8; $base-100: #F3E2EB; $base-200: #E6C7D8; $base-300: #D09FBA; $base-400: #B87A9C; $base-500: #9C597E; $base-600: #794963; $base-700: #573849; $base-800: #3A2731; $base-900: #24191F; $base-hover: #542640; $base-subtle: #D9BACB;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#682F4E",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF4F8",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F3E2EB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E6C7D8",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D09FBA",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#B87A9C",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#9C597E",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#794963",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#573849",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3A2731",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#24191F",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}