#302719 is a muted, temperate lime 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 #302719 works with other colors. Named schemes with #302719 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 #302719 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 #302719 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #302719;
--color-base-rgb: 48 39 25;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(27.9% 0.027 78.3);
--color-50: #FAF8F5;
--color-100: #F2ECE4;
--color-200: #E3D9C9;
--color-300: #CCBCA3;
--color-400: #B39F7F;
--color-500: #97815E;
--color-600: #75664D;
--color-700: #544A3A;
--color-800: #383229;
--color-900: #23201A;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FAF8F5',
100: '#F2ECE4',
200: '#E3D9C9',
300: '#CCBCA3',
400: '#B39F7F',
500: '#97815E',
600: '#75664D',
700: '#544A3A',
800: '#383229',
900: '#23201A',
},
}
$base: #302719; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FAF8F5; $base-100: #F2ECE4; $base-200: #E3D9C9; $base-300: #CCBCA3; $base-400: #B39F7F; $base-500: #97815E; $base-600: #75664D; $base-700: #544A3A; $base-800: #383229; $base-900: #23201A; $base-hover: #261F13; $base-subtle: #CDC1AD;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#302719",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FAF8F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F2ECE4",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E3D9C9",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#CCBCA3",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#B39F7F",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#97815E",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#75664D",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#544A3A",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#383229",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#23201A",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}