#2F2D10 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 #2F2D10 works with other colors. Named schemes with #2F2D10 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 #2F2D10 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 #2F2D10 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #2F2D10;
--color-base-rgb: 47 45 16;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(29.2% 0.045 105.3);
--color-50: #FBFBF3;
--color-100: #F5F4E0;
--color-200: #EAE7C2;
--color-300: #D7D398;
--color-400: #C2BC70;
--color-500: #A6A04F;
--color-600: #7F7B42;
--color-700: #5B5934;
--color-800: #3C3B25;
--color-900: #252418;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FBFBF3',
100: '#F5F4E0',
200: '#EAE7C2',
300: '#D7D398',
400: '#C2BC70',
500: '#A6A04F',
600: '#7F7B42',
700: '#5B5934',
800: '#3C3B25',
900: '#252418',
},
}
$base: #2F2D10; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FBFBF3; $base-100: #F5F4E0; $base-200: #EAE7C2; $base-300: #D7D398; $base-400: #C2BC70; $base-500: #A6A04F; $base-600: #7F7B42; $base-700: #5B5934; $base-800: #3C3B25; $base-900: #252418; $base-hover: #24230C; $base-subtle: #D5D1A3;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#2F2D10",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBFBF3",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F5F4E0",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EAE7C2",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D7D398",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C2BC70",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A6A04F",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#7F7B42",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5B5934",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3C3B25",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#252418",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}