#2F2114 is a muted, temperate yellow. 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 #2F2114 works with other colors. Named schemes with #2F2114 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 #2F2114 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 #2F2114 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #2F2114;
--color-base-rgb: 47 33 20;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(26.1% 0.031 63.7);
--color-50: #FBF7F4;
--color-100: #F3EAE2;
--color-200: #E6D6C6;
--color-300: #D1B79E;
--color-400: #BA9878;
--color-500: #9E7957;
--color-600: #7A6048;
--color-700: #584737;
--color-800: #3A3027;
--color-900: #241E19;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FBF7F4',
100: '#F3EAE2',
200: '#E6D6C6',
300: '#D1B79E',
400: '#BA9878',
500: '#9E7957',
600: '#7A6048',
700: '#584737',
800: '#3A3027',
900: '#241E19',
},
}
$base: #2F2114; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FBF7F4; $base-100: #F3EAE2; $base-200: #E6D6C6; $base-300: #D1B79E; $base-400: #BA9878; $base-500: #9E7957; $base-600: #7A6048; $base-700: #584737; $base-800: #3A3027; $base-900: #241E19; $base-hover: #251A10; $base-subtle: #D1BCA8;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#2F2114",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF7F4",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F3EAE2",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E6D6C6",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D1B79E",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#BA9878",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#9E7957",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#7A6048",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#584737",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3A3027",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#241E19",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}