#352229 is a muted, temperate red. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, quietly premium. It is too dark to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #352229 works with other colors. Named schemes with #352229 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.
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.
Bistre sits between cream and a deep berry here, softened by a blush accent and grounded by charcoal.
How #352229 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 #352229 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #352229;
--color-base-rgb: 53 34 41;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(27.8% 0.031 355.5);
--color-50: #F9F6F7;
--color-100: #EFE6E9;
--color-200: #DFCDD4;
--color-300: #C6A9B4;
--color-400: #AB8794;
--color-500: #8E6775;
--color-600: #6F535D;
--color-700: #503F45;
--color-800: #362B2F;
--color-900: #221C1E;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#F9F6F7',
100: '#EFE6E9',
200: '#DFCDD4',
300: '#C6A9B4',
400: '#AB8794',
500: '#8E6775',
600: '#6F535D',
700: '#503F45',
800: '#362B2F',
900: '#221C1E',
},
}
$base: #352229; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F9F6F7; $base-100: #EFE6E9; $base-200: #DFCDD4; $base-300: #C6A9B4; $base-400: #AB8794; $base-500: #8E6775; $base-600: #6F535D; $base-700: #503F45; $base-800: #362B2F; $base-900: #221C1E; $base-hover: #2A1B21; $base-subtle: #CAB5BD;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#352229",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9F6F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#EFE6E9",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#DFCDD4",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C6A9B4",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#AB8794",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#8E6775",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#6F535D",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#503F45",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#362B2F",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#221C1E",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}