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#4A0E0E
Oxblood
A Dark Autumn color
anchor color 1 of 10 in Dark Autumn. Also called Deep Autumn in other systems.
By Kathleen Olsen · Updated November 11, 2026
Oxblood is red taken almost to black with brown kept in it. Warm, very dark, and barely a color at all in low light. It is the first anchor in the Dark Autumn palette, and it does the job black does for the Winters: it sharpens the face without competing with it.
Oxblood is an anchor color in Dark Autumn. Nothing on the same side of the warm–cool line comes within twenty points of it; the nearest is Dark chocolate #4A3526 in True Autumn at 23. That makes it a clean test. If it suits you, you are in this palette.
At RGB 74, 14, 14 this color has five times as much red as blue and very little light. Indoors it reads as a warm black. In daylight the red comes forward and it reads as the darkest possible wine. Both readings are correct and both are useful. It is the color of old leather and dried blood, which is where the name comes from.
A Dark Autumn wears it as a neutral. A coat, boots, a bag, a knit. It pairs with espresso, dark olive, camel, and aged brass, and it does something very good with cream. It is a better black than black for anyone in this palette, because it carries the warmth that black lacks.
Retailers call it oxblood, burgundy, bordeaux, wine, or maroon, and most of what they sell under those names is cooler and lighter than this. Hold the garment against a dark brown. Oxblood looks like a cousin. A cool burgundy looks like a stranger.
Dark Autumn's mahogany and warm burgundy are both within sixteen points and both in the palette. The color this gets mistaken for from outside is Deep Winter's black cherry, twenty-one points off: as dark, but cool. On a Dark Autumn, black cherry looks slightly purple. On a Deep Winter, oxblood looks slightly brown. The two are the same job done in different temperatures.
The nearest named colors in other seasons, by perceptual distance (ΔE in CIELAB; under 10 is hard to tell apart on a screen, over 25 is a different color).
Black cherry #5B1235
Deep Winter anchor · ΔE 21
Dark chocolate #4A3526
True Autumn neutral · ΔE 23
Warm burgundy #8C3A2A
True Autumn anchor · ΔE 24
Cranberry #8A1538
Deep Winter anchor · ΔE 27
Warm espresso near-black #2A211A
Bright Spring neutral · ΔE 27
Soft chocolate #5A4636
Soft Autumn neutral · ΔE 28
As of November 11, 2026, 1 in-stock piece across STAUD sample within a close match of #4A0E0E. The dot on each card is the color we sampled from the garment itself; trust it over the photograph. Links are affiliate links: we earn a commission when you buy through them, at no cost to you.
Retailers almost never use the palette name. These are the color names on the in-stock pieces that sample within a close match of #4A0E0E today, so they are the words to search for.
A retailer's name for a color says nothing about its undertone. "Navy" at one shop is a True Winter color and at another a Spring one. The sampled dot on each card above is what we trust.
Yes. Oxblood (#4A0E0E) is an anchor color in the Dark Autumn palette. No other palette on the same side of the warm–cool line has a color near it, which makes it a reliable test for the season.
No. Burgundy is usually cooler and lighter. Oxblood as the Dark Autumn palette uses it is RGB 74, 14, 14: red taken nearly to black with brown kept in it. If a burgundy looks purple next to a brown, it is not oxblood.
Yes, as a neutral. It is a shade darker than most of the True Autumn palette, but it is warm and pairs with the same browns. True Autumn's own version of this job is warm burgundy.
Not near the face. Deep Winter and Dark Autumn share depth but split on temperature, and oxblood is warm. Deep Winter's version is black cherry, which is twenty-one points away and cool.
For a Dark Autumn: espresso, camel, dark olive, cream, aged brass, terracotta. Oxblood and cream is the easiest pairing. Oxblood and dark olive is the richest. Avoid cool greys and pure black.
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