#392A22 is a muted, temperate amber. 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 #392A22 works with other colors. Named schemes with #392A22 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 #392A22 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 #392A22 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #392A22;
--color-base-rgb: 57 42 34;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(30.0% 0.026 49.4);
--color-50: #F9F7F5;
--color-100: #F0E9E5;
--color-200: #E0D3CC;
--color-300: #C8B3A7;
--color-400: #AE9384;
--color-500: #907464;
--color-600: #705C51;
--color-700: #51443D;
--color-800: #362F2A;
--color-900: #221E1B;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#F9F7F5',
100: '#F0E9E5',
200: '#E0D3CC',
300: '#C8B3A7',
400: '#AE9384',
500: '#907464',
600: '#705C51',
700: '#51443D',
800: '#362F2A',
900: '#221E1B',
},
}
$base: #392A22; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F9F7F5; $base-100: #F0E9E5; $base-200: #E0D3CC; $base-300: #C8B3A7; $base-400: #AE9384; $base-500: #907464; $base-600: #705C51; $base-700: #51443D; $base-800: #362F2A; $base-900: #221E1B; $base-hover: #2E221C; $base-subtle: #CCBDB4;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#392A22",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9F7F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F0E9E5",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E0D3CC",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C8B3A7",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#AE9384",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#907464",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#705C51",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#51443D",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#362F2A",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#221E1B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}