#321F10 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 #321F10 works with other colors. Named schemes with #321F10 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 #321F10 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 #321F10 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #321F10;
--color-base-rgb: 50 31 16;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(26.0% 0.039 58.2);
--color-50: #FCF7F3;
--color-100: #F6E9DF;
--color-200: #EBD3C1;
--color-300: #D9B396;
--color-400: #C4936E;
--color-500: #A8744D;
--color-600: #815D41;
--color-700: #5C4532;
--color-800: #3D2F24;
--color-900: #261E18;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FCF7F3',
100: '#F6E9DF',
200: '#EBD3C1',
300: '#D9B396',
400: '#C4936E',
500: '#A8744D',
600: '#815D41',
700: '#5C4532',
800: '#3D2F24',
900: '#261E18',
},
}
$base: #321F10; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FCF7F3; $base-100: #F6E9DF; $base-200: #EBD3C1; $base-300: #D9B396; $base-400: #C4936E; $base-500: #A8744D; $base-600: #815D41; $base-700: #5C4532; $base-800: #3D2F24; $base-900: #261E18; $base-hover: #28190D; $base-subtle: #D7B9A2;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#321F10",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF7F3",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F6E9DF",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EBD3C1",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D9B396",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C4936E",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A8744D",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#815D41",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5C4532",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3D2F24",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#261E18",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}