#AA294B 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 #AA294B works with other colors. Named schemes with #AA294B 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 #AA294B 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 #AA294B at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #AA294B;
--color-base-rgb: 170 41 75;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(49.5% 0.165 10.5);
--color-50: #FCF2F5;
--color-100: #F8DDE4;
--color-200: #EFBDCB;
--color-300: #DF90A5;
--color-400: #CB6781;
--color-500: #B04561;
--color-600: #873B4F;
--color-700: #602F3C;
--color-800: #3F222A;
--color-900: #27161B;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
cranberry: {
50: '#FCF2F5',
100: '#F8DDE4',
200: '#EFBDCB',
300: '#DF90A5',
400: '#CB6781',
500: '#B04561',
600: '#873B4F',
700: '#602F3C',
800: '#3F222A',
900: '#27161B',
},
}
$base: #AA294B; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FCF2F5; $base-100: #F8DDE4; $base-200: #EFBDCB; $base-300: #DF90A5; $base-400: #CB6781; $base-500: #B04561; $base-600: #873B4F; $base-700: #602F3C; $base-800: #3F222A; $base-900: #27161B; $base-hover: #87213C; $base-subtle: #E7BDC8;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#AA294B",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF2F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F8DDE4",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EFBDCB",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DF90A5",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#CB6781",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#B04561",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#873B4F",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#602F3C",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3F222A",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#27161B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}