#3D2E24 is a muted, temperate yellow. 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 #3D2E24 works with other colors. Named schemes with #3D2E24 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 #3D2E24 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 #3D2E24 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #3D2E24;
--color-base-rgb: 61 46 36;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(31.5% 0.028 55.2);
--color-50: #FAF7F5;
--color-100: #F0E9E5;
--color-200: #E1D4CC;
--color-300: #C8B4A7;
--color-400: #AF9583;
--color-500: #917664;
--color-600: #715E51;
--color-700: #52453D;
--color-800: #372F2A;
--color-900: #221E1B;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FAF7F5',
100: '#F0E9E5',
200: '#E1D4CC',
300: '#C8B4A7',
400: '#AF9583',
500: '#917664',
600: '#715E51',
700: '#52453D',
800: '#372F2A',
900: '#221E1B',
},
}
$base: #3D2E24; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FAF7F5; $base-100: #F0E9E5; $base-200: #E1D4CC; $base-300: #C8B4A7; $base-400: #AF9583; $base-500: #917664; $base-600: #715E51; $base-700: #52453D; $base-800: #372F2A; $base-900: #221E1B; $base-hover: #31251D; $base-subtle: #CDBFB5;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#3D2E24",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FAF7F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F0E9E5",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E1D4CC",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C8B4A7",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#AF9583",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#917664",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#715E51",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#52453D",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#372F2A",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#221E1B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}