#3C2925 is a muted, temperate orange. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium, restrained and easy to live with. It is too muted to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #3C2925 works with other colors. Named schemes with #3C2925 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 #3C2925 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 #3C2925 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #3C2925;
--color-base-rgb: 60 41 37;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(30.2% 0.030 32.2);
--color-50: #F9F6F5;
--color-100: #F0E7E5;
--color-200: #E0D0CC;
--color-300: #C7ADA8;
--color-400: #AD8C85;
--color-500: #906C65;
--color-600: #705752;
--color-700: #51413E;
--color-800: #362D2B;
--color-900: #221C1B;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#F9F6F5',
100: '#F0E7E5',
200: '#E0D0CC',
300: '#C7ADA8',
400: '#AD8C85',
500: '#906C65',
600: '#705752',
700: '#51413E',
800: '#362D2B',
900: '#221C1B',
},
}
$base: #3C2925; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F9F6F5; $base-100: #F0E7E5; $base-200: #E0D0CC; $base-300: #C7ADA8; $base-400: #AD8C85; $base-500: #906C65; $base-600: #705752; $base-700: #51413E; $base-800: #362D2B; $base-900: #221C1B; $base-hover: #30211D; $base-subtle: #CCBAB6;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#3C2925",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9F6F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F0E7E5",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E0D0CC",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C7ADA8",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#AD8C85",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#906C65",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#705752",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#51413E",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#362D2B",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#221C1B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}