#382129 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 #382129 works with other colors. Named schemes with #382129 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 #382129 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 #382129 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #382129;
--color-base-rgb: 56 33 41;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(28.0% 0.038 357.4);
--color-50: #FAF5F7;
--color-100: #F0E5E9;
--color-200: #E1CCD3;
--color-300: #C8A7B3;
--color-400: #AF8393;
--color-500: #916474;
--color-600: #71515C;
--color-700: #523D44;
--color-800: #372A2F;
--color-900: #221B1E;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FAF5F7',
100: '#F0E5E9',
200: '#E1CCD3',
300: '#C8A7B3',
400: '#AF8393',
500: '#916474',
600: '#71515C',
700: '#523D44',
800: '#372A2F',
900: '#221B1E',
},
}
$base: #382129; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FAF5F7; $base-100: #F0E5E9; $base-200: #E1CCD3; $base-300: #C8A7B3; $base-400: #AF8393; $base-500: #916474; $base-600: #71515C; $base-700: #523D44; $base-800: #372A2F; $base-900: #221B1E; $base-hover: #2C1A20; $base-subtle: #CCB3BC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#382129",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FAF5F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F0E5E9",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E1CCD3",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C8A7B3",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#AF8393",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#916474",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#71515C",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#523D44",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#372A2F",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#221B1E",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}