#371F26 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 #371F26 works with other colors. Named schemes with #371F26 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 #371F26 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 #371F26 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #371F26;
--color-base-rgb: 55 31 38;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(27.3% 0.039 1.1);
--color-50: #FAF5F6;
--color-100: #F1E5E8;
--color-200: #E2CBD1;
--color-300: #CAA6B0;
--color-400: #B0828F;
--color-500: #936270;
--color-600: #724F59;
--color-700: #533C43;
--color-800: #372A2E;
--color-900: #221B1D;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FAF5F6',
100: '#F1E5E8',
200: '#E2CBD1',
300: '#CAA6B0',
400: '#B0828F',
500: '#936270',
600: '#724F59',
700: '#533C43',
800: '#372A2E',
900: '#221B1D',
},
}
$base: #371F26; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FAF5F6; $base-100: #F1E5E8; $base-200: #E2CBD1; $base-300: #CAA6B0; $base-400: #B0828F; $base-500: #936270; $base-600: #724F59; $base-700: #533C43; $base-800: #372A2E; $base-900: #221B1D; $base-hover: #2C191E; $base-subtle: #CDB2BA;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#371F26",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FAF5F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F1E5E8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E2CBD1",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#CAA6B0",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#B0828F",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#936270",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#724F59",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#533C43",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#372A2E",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#221B1D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}