#A02450 is a mid-toned, warm red. It carries a legible label as a UI accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #A02450 works with other colors. Named schemes with #A02450 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Cranberry 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.
Cranberry plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Cranberry sits between cream and a deep berry here, softened by a blush accent and grounded by charcoal.
This palette keeps Cranberry as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Cranberry 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 Cranberry carrying the quiet middle.
How #A02450 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 #A02450 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #A02450;
--color-base-rgb: 160 36 80;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(47.4% 0.162 4.8);
--color-50: #FDF2F6;
--color-100: #F8DDE7;
--color-200: #F0BDCF;
--color-300: #E08FAB;
--color-400: #CD6589;
--color-500: #B2436A;
--color-600: #883A55;
--color-700: #612E40;
--color-800: #40212C;
--color-900: #27161C;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
cranberry: {
50: '#FDF2F6',
100: '#F8DDE7',
200: '#F0BDCF',
300: '#E08FAB',
400: '#CD6589',
500: '#B2436A',
600: '#883A55',
700: '#612E40',
800: '#40212C',
900: '#27161C',
},
}
$base: #A02450; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FDF2F6; $base-100: #F8DDE7; $base-200: #F0BDCF; $base-300: #E08FAB; $base-400: #CD6589; $base-500: #B2436A; $base-600: #883A55; $base-700: #612E40; $base-800: #40212C; $base-900: #27161C; $base-hover: #7E1D3F; $base-subtle: #E6B9C9;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#A02450",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FDF2F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F8DDE7",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F0BDCF",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#E08FAB",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#CD6589",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#B2436A",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#883A55",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#612E40",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#40212C",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#27161C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}