#313113 is a muted, temperate green. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium, restrained and easy to live with. It is too muted to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #313113 works with other colors. Named schemes with #313113 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 #313113 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 #313113 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #313113;
--color-base-rgb: 49 49 19;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(30.5% 0.047 108.9);
--color-50: #FBFBF4;
--color-100: #F4F4E1;
--color-200: #E8E8C4;
--color-300: #D4D49B;
--color-400: #BDBD75;
--color-500: #A1A154;
--color-600: #7C7C46;
--color-700: #595936;
--color-800: #3B3B26;
--color-900: #252519;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FBFBF4',
100: '#F4F4E1',
200: '#E8E8C4',
300: '#D4D49B',
400: '#BDBD75',
500: '#A1A154',
600: '#7C7C46',
700: '#595936',
800: '#3B3B26',
900: '#252519',
},
}
$base: #313113; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FBFBF4; $base-100: #F4F4E1; $base-200: #E8E8C4; $base-300: #D4D49B; $base-400: #BDBD75; $base-500: #A1A154; $base-600: #7C7C46; $base-700: #595936; $base-800: #3B3B26; $base-900: #252519; $base-hover: #26260F; $base-subtle: #D3D3A6;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#313113",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBFBF4",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F4F4E1",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E8E8C4",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D4D49B",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#BDBD75",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A1A154",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#7C7C46",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#595936",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3B3B26",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#252519",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}