#382724 is a muted, temperate 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 #382724 works with other colors. Named schemes with #382724 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 #382724 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 #382724 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #382724;
--color-base-rgb: 56 39 36;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(29.2% 0.026 30.1);
--color-50: #F9F6F6;
--color-100: #EFE7E6;
--color-200: #DFD0CD;
--color-300: #C6AEA9;
--color-400: #AB8C87;
--color-500: #8E6D67;
--color-600: #6F5753;
--color-700: #50413F;
--color-800: #362D2B;
--color-900: #221D1C;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#F9F6F6',
100: '#EFE7E6',
200: '#DFD0CD',
300: '#C6AEA9',
400: '#AB8C87',
500: '#8E6D67',
600: '#6F5753',
700: '#50413F',
800: '#362D2B',
900: '#221D1C',
},
}
$base: #382724; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F9F6F6; $base-100: #EFE7E6; $base-200: #DFD0CD; $base-300: #C6AEA9; $base-400: #AB8C87; $base-500: #8E6D67; $base-600: #6F5753; $base-700: #50413F; $base-800: #362D2B; $base-900: #221D1C; $base-hover: #2D1F1D; $base-subtle: #CBB9B6;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#382724",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9F6F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#EFE7E6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#DFD0CD",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C6AEA9",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#AB8C87",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#8E6D67",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#6F5753",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#50413F",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#362D2B",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#221D1C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}