#CA4489 is a mid-toned, warm red. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered. It carries a legible label as a UI accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #CA4489 works with other colors. Named schemes with #CA4489 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Mulberry 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.
Mulberry plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Mulberry sits between cream and a deep berry here, softened by a blush accent and grounded by charcoal.
This palette keeps Mulberry as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Mulberry 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 Mulberry carrying the quiet middle.
How #CA4489 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 #CA4489 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #CA4489;
--color-base-rgb: 202 68 137;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(59.4% 0.182 352.3);
--color-50: #FCF3F8;
--color-100: #F7DFEB;
--color-200: #EDBFD7;
--color-300: #DC93B9;
--color-400: #C76B9B;
--color-500: #AC497C;
--color-600: #843E62;
--color-700: #5E3148;
--color-800: #3E2331;
--color-900: #26171F;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
mulberry: {
50: '#FCF3F8',
100: '#F7DFEB',
200: '#EDBFD7',
300: '#DC93B9',
400: '#C76B9B',
500: '#AC497C',
600: '#843E62',
700: '#5E3148',
800: '#3E2331',
900: '#26171F',
},
}
$base: #CA4489; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FCF3F8; $base-100: #F7DFEB; $base-200: #EDBFD7; $base-300: #DC93B9; $base-400: #C76B9B; $base-500: #AC497C; $base-600: #843E62; $base-700: #5E3148; $base-800: #3E2331; $base-900: #26171F; $base-hover: #A9306E; $base-subtle: #EACCDC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#CA4489",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF3F8",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F7DFEB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EDBFD7",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DC93B9",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C76B9B",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#AC497C",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#843E62",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5E3148",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3E2331",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#26171F",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}