#2A2613 is a muted, temperate green. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium, restrained and easy to live with. It is too dark to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #2A2613 works with other colors. Named schemes with #2A2613 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Bistre plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
This palette keeps Bistre as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Bistre sets a calm, sun-bleached base here, wrapped in bone and paper off-whites and a soft greige, with a single ink accent for wabi-sabi restraint.
Bistre carries the depth in this luxury scheme, offset by a brass accent and near-black and held together by a deep neutral and an off-white surface.
Bistre 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 Bistre carrying the quiet middle.
How #2A2613 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 #2A2613 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #2A2613;
--color-base-rgb: 42 38 19;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(26.7% 0.032 97.8);
--color-50: #FBF9F4;
--color-100: #F3F0E2;
--color-200: #E6E0C7;
--color-300: #D0C89F;
--color-400: #B8AE7A;
--color-500: #9C9159;
--color-600: #797149;
--color-700: #575238;
--color-800: #3A3727;
--color-900: #242219;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FBF9F4',
100: '#F3F0E2',
200: '#E6E0C7',
300: '#D0C89F',
400: '#B8AE7A',
500: '#9C9159',
600: '#797149',
700: '#575238',
800: '#3A3727',
900: '#242219',
},
}
$base: #2A2613; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FBF9F4; $base-100: #F3F0E2; $base-200: #E6E0C7; $base-300: #D0C89F; $base-400: #B8AE7A; $base-500: #9C9159; $base-600: #797149; $base-700: #575238; $base-800: #3A3727; $base-900: #242219; $base-hover: #221F0F; $base-subtle: #CFC9A8;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#2A2613",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF9F4",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F3F0E2",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E6E0C7",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D0C89F",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#B8AE7A",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#9C9159",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#797149",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#575238",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3A3727",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#242219",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}