#321E0F is a muted, warm 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 #321E0F works with other colors. Named schemes with #321E0F in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
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 plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Bistre holds the warm center of this desert palette with sand and clay beside it, a muted-sage accent and a dark-brown 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 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 #321E0F 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 #321E0F at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #321E0F;
--color-base-rgb: 50 30 15;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(25.7% 0.040 56.7);
--color-50: #FCF7F3;
--color-100: #F6E9DF;
--color-200: #ECD3C0;
--color-300: #DAB395;
--color-400: #C6936C;
--color-500: #AA744B;
--color-600: #835C3F;
--color-700: #5D4432;
--color-800: #3D2F23;
--color-900: #261E17;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FCF7F3',
100: '#F6E9DF',
200: '#ECD3C0',
300: '#DAB395',
400: '#C6936C',
500: '#AA744B',
600: '#835C3F',
700: '#5D4432',
800: '#3D2F23',
900: '#261E17',
},
}
$base: #321E0F; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FCF7F3; $base-100: #F6E9DF; $base-200: #ECD3C0; $base-300: #DAB395; $base-400: #C6936C; $base-500: #AA744B; $base-600: #835C3F; $base-700: #5D4432; $base-800: #3D2F23; $base-900: #261E17; $base-hover: #29190C; $base-subtle: #D8B9A1;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#321E0F",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF7F3",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F6E9DF",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#ECD3C0",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DAB395",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C6936C",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#AA744B",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#835C3F",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5D4432",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3D2F23",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#261E17",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}