#695658 is a muted, temperate red. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, restrained and easy to live with. It reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #695658 works with other colors. Named schemes with #695658 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Wenge 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.
Wenge plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Wenge sits between cream and a deep berry here, softened by a blush accent and grounded by charcoal.
Wenge 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.
Wenge 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 Wenge carrying the quiet middle.
How #695658 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 #695658 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #695658;
--color-base-rgb: 105 86 88;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(47.3% 0.025 10.9);
--color-50: #F8F7F7;
--color-100: #EDE8E9;
--color-200: #DAD2D3;
--color-300: #BEB1B2;
--color-400: #A19192;
--color-500: #837273;
--color-600: #675B5C;
--color-700: #4B4344;
--color-800: #332E2F;
--color-900: #201D1E;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
wenge: {
50: '#F8F7F7',
100: '#EDE8E9',
200: '#DAD2D3',
300: '#BEB1B2',
400: '#A19192',
500: '#837273',
600: '#675B5C',
700: '#4B4344',
800: '#332E2F',
900: '#201D1E',
},
}
$base: #695658; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F8F7F7; $base-100: #EDE8E9; $base-200: #DAD2D3; $base-300: #BEB1B2; $base-400: #A19192; $base-500: #837273; $base-600: #675B5C; $base-700: #4B4344; $base-800: #332E2F; $base-900: #201D1E; $base-hover: #534445; $base-subtle: #D2CBCC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#695658",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F8F7F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#EDE8E9",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#DAD2D3",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#BEB1B2",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#A19192",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#837273",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#675B5C",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#4B4344",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#332E2F",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#201D1E",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}