#353124 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 #353124 works with other colors. Named schemes with #353124 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 adds the colour to this moody editorial scheme — charcoal and a mid-grey around it, a bone highlight, and a muted jewel accent drawn from Bistre.
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 #353124 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 #353124 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #353124;
--color-base-rgb: 53 49 36;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(31.3% 0.023 93.0);
--color-50: #F9F8F6;
--color-100: #EFEDE7;
--color-200: #DEDACE;
--color-300: #C4BEAB;
--color-400: #A9A189;
--color-500: #8B836A;
--color-600: #6D6755;
--color-700: #4F4B40;
--color-800: #35332C;
--color-900: #21201C;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#F9F8F6',
100: '#EFEDE7',
200: '#DEDACE',
300: '#C4BEAB',
400: '#A9A189',
500: '#8B836A',
600: '#6D6755',
700: '#4F4B40',
800: '#35332C',
900: '#21201C',
},
}
$base: #353124; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F9F8F6; $base-100: #EFEDE7; $base-200: #DEDACE; $base-300: #C4BEAB; $base-400: #A9A189; $base-500: #8B836A; $base-600: #6D6755; $base-700: #4F4B40; $base-800: #35332C; $base-900: #21201C; $base-hover: #29261C; $base-subtle: #C9C4B6;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#353124",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9F8F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#EFEDE7",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#DEDACE",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C4BEAB",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#A9A189",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#8B836A",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#6D6755",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#4F4B40",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#35332C",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#21201C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}