#362125 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 #362125 works with other colors. Named schemes with #362125 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 #362125 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 #362125 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #362125;
--color-base-rgb: 54 33 37;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(27.6% 0.033 7.0);
--color-50: #F9F5F6;
--color-100: #F0E5E7;
--color-200: #E0CCD0;
--color-300: #C7A8AE;
--color-400: #AD858C;
--color-500: #90656D;
--color-600: #705257;
--color-700: #513E41;
--color-800: #362B2D;
--color-900: #221B1D;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#F9F5F6',
100: '#F0E5E7',
200: '#E0CCD0',
300: '#C7A8AE',
400: '#AD858C',
500: '#90656D',
600: '#705257',
700: '#513E41',
800: '#362B2D',
900: '#221B1D',
},
}
$base: #362125; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F9F5F6; $base-100: #F0E5E7; $base-200: #E0CCD0; $base-300: #C7A8AE; $base-400: #AD858C; $base-500: #90656D; $base-600: #705257; $base-700: #513E41; $base-800: #362B2D; $base-900: #221B1D; $base-hover: #2B1A1D; $base-subtle: #CBB4B8;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#362125",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9F5F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F0E5E7",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E0CCD0",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C7A8AE",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#AD858C",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#90656D",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#705257",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#513E41",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#362B2D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#221B1D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}