#3E2330 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 #3E2330 works with other colors. Named schemes with #3E2330 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 #3E2330 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 #3E2330 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #3E2330;
--color-base-rgb: 62 35 48;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(29.6% 0.046 349.9);
--color-50: #FAF5F7;
--color-100: #F1E5EA;
--color-200: #E2CBD6;
--color-300: #CAA6B7;
--color-400: #B08298;
--color-500: #93627A;
--color-600: #724F60;
--color-700: #533C47;
--color-800: #372A30;
--color-900: #221B1E;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FAF5F7',
100: '#F1E5EA',
200: '#E2CBD6',
300: '#CAA6B7',
400: '#B08298',
500: '#93627A',
600: '#724F60',
700: '#533C47',
800: '#372A30',
900: '#221B1E',
},
}
$base: #3E2330; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FAF5F7; $base-100: #F1E5EA; $base-200: #E2CBD6; $base-300: #CAA6B7; $base-400: #B08298; $base-500: #93627A; $base-600: #724F60; $base-700: #533C47; $base-800: #372A30; $base-900: #221B1E; $base-hover: #321C26; $base-subtle: #CEB4C1;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#3E2330",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FAF5F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F1E5EA",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E2CBD6",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#CAA6B7",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#B08298",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#93627A",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#724F60",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#533C47",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#372A30",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#221B1E",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}