#322C19 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 #322C19 works with other colors. Named schemes with #322C19 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 #322C19 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 #322C19 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #322C19;
--color-base-rgb: 50 44 25;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(29.4% 0.033 92.6);
--color-50: #FAF9F5;
--color-100: #F2EEE3;
--color-200: #E4DDC9;
--color-300: #CDC3A2;
--color-400: #B4A87E;
--color-500: #978A5D;
--color-600: #756C4C;
--color-700: #554F3A;
--color-800: #383529;
--color-900: #23211A;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FAF9F5',
100: '#F2EEE3',
200: '#E4DDC9',
300: '#CDC3A2',
400: '#B4A87E',
500: '#978A5D',
600: '#756C4C',
700: '#554F3A',
800: '#383529',
900: '#23211A',
},
}
$base: #322C19; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FAF9F5; $base-100: #F2EEE3; $base-200: #E4DDC9; $base-300: #CDC3A2; $base-400: #B4A87E; $base-500: #978A5D; $base-600: #756C4C; $base-700: #554F3A; $base-800: #383529; $base-900: #23211A; $base-hover: #292415; $base-subtle: #CEC7AE;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#322C19",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FAF9F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F2EEE3",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E4DDC9",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#CDC3A2",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#B4A87E",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#978A5D",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#756C4C",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#554F3A",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#383529",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#23211A",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}