#891758 is a mid-toned, warm red. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, quietly premium. It carries a legible label as a UI accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #891758 works with other colors. Named schemes with #891758 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.
This palette keeps Byzantium as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
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 #891758 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 #891758 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #891758;
--color-base-rgb: 137 23 88;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(42.6% 0.158 351.7);
--color-50: #FDF1F8;
--color-100: #FADBED;
--color-200: #F3B9DA;
--color-300: #E58ABE;
--color-400: #D45EA1;
--color-500: #B93C83;
--color-600: #8D3567;
--color-700: #642B4B;
--color-800: #421F33;
--color-900: #281520;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
byzantium: {
50: '#FDF1F8',
100: '#FADBED',
200: '#F3B9DA',
300: '#E58ABE',
400: '#D45EA1',
500: '#B93C83',
600: '#8D3567',
700: '#642B4B',
800: '#421F33',
900: '#281520',
},
}
$base: #891758; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FDF1F8; $base-100: #FADBED; $base-200: #F3B9DA; $base-300: #E58ABE; $base-400: #D45EA1; $base-500: #B93C83; $base-600: #8D3567; $base-700: #642B4B; $base-800: #421F33; $base-900: #281520; $base-hover: #6C1245; $base-subtle: #E7AECE;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#891758",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FDF1F8",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FADBED",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F3B9DA",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#E58ABE",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#D45EA1",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#B93C83",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#8D3567",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#642B4B",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#421F33",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#281520",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}