#372123 is a muted, temperate red-orange. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium, restrained and easy to live with. It is too dark to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #372123 works with other colors. Named schemes with #372123 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 #372123 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 #372123 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #372123;
--color-base-rgb: 55 33 35;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(27.7% 0.034 13.6);
--color-50: #F9F5F6;
--color-100: #F0E5E6;
--color-200: #E0CCCE;
--color-300: #C8A7AA;
--color-400: #AE8488;
--color-500: #906468;
--color-600: #705154;
--color-700: #513D3F;
--color-800: #362A2B;
--color-900: #221B1C;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#F9F5F6',
100: '#F0E5E6',
200: '#E0CCCE',
300: '#C8A7AA',
400: '#AE8488',
500: '#906468',
600: '#705154',
700: '#513D3F',
800: '#362A2B',
900: '#221B1C',
},
}
$base: #372123; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F9F5F6; $base-100: #F0E5E6; $base-200: #E0CCCE; $base-300: #C8A7AA; $base-400: #AE8488; $base-500: #906468; $base-600: #705154; $base-700: #513D3F; $base-800: #362A2B; $base-900: #221B1C; $base-hover: #2B1A1B; $base-subtle: #CCB3B5;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#372123",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9F5F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F0E5E6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E0CCCE",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C8A7AA",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#AE8488",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#906468",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#705154",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#513D3F",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#362A2B",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#221B1C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}