#3C1F2A 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 #3C1F2A works with other colors. Named schemes with #3C1F2A 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 #3C1F2A 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 #3C1F2A at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #3C1F2A;
--color-base-rgb: 60 31 42;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(28.2% 0.048 356.4);
--color-50: #FAF5F7;
--color-100: #F2E4E9;
--color-200: #E3C9D3;
--color-300: #CCA3B3;
--color-400: #B37F93;
--color-500: #975E74;
--color-600: #754D5C;
--color-700: #543A44;
--color-800: #38292F;
--color-900: #231A1E;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FAF5F7',
100: '#F2E4E9',
200: '#E3C9D3',
300: '#CCA3B3',
400: '#B37F93',
500: '#975E74',
600: '#754D5C',
700: '#543A44',
800: '#38292F',
900: '#231A1E',
},
}
$base: #3C1F2A; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FAF5F7; $base-100: #F2E4E9; $base-200: #E3C9D3; $base-300: #CCA3B3; $base-400: #B37F93; $base-500: #975E74; $base-600: #754D5C; $base-700: #543A44; $base-800: #38292F; $base-900: #231A1E; $base-hover: #301922; $base-subtle: #D0B1BD;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#3C1F2A",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FAF5F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F2E4E9",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E3C9D3",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#CCA3B3",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#B37F93",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#975E74",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#754D5C",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#543A44",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#38292F",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#231A1E",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}