#332E19 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 #332E19 works with other colors. Named schemes with #332E19 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 #332E19 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 #332E19 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #332E19;
--color-base-rgb: 51 46 25;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(30.1% 0.035 96.4);
--color-50: #FAF9F4;
--color-100: #F2EFE3;
--color-200: #E4DEC8;
--color-300: #CEC5A2;
--color-400: #B5AA7D;
--color-500: #988C5C;
--color-600: #766E4C;
--color-700: #55503A;
--color-800: #393528;
--color-900: #23211A;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FAF9F4',
100: '#F2EFE3',
200: '#E4DEC8',
300: '#CEC5A2',
400: '#B5AA7D',
500: '#988C5C',
600: '#766E4C',
700: '#55503A',
800: '#393528',
900: '#23211A',
},
}
$base: #332E19; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FAF9F4; $base-100: #F2EFE3; $base-200: #E4DEC8; $base-300: #CEC5A2; $base-400: #B5AA7D; $base-500: #988C5C; $base-600: #766E4C; $base-700: #55503A; $base-800: #393528; $base-900: #23211A; $base-hover: #292514; $base-subtle: #CFC8AD;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#332E19",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FAF9F4",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F2EFE3",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E4DEC8",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#CEC5A2",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#B5AA7D",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#988C5C",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#766E4C",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#55503A",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#393528",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#23211A",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}