#401D30 is a deep, temperate rose. 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 #401D30 works with other colors. Named schemes with #401D30 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 #401D30 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 #401D30 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #401D30;
--color-base-rgb: 64 29 48;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(28.7% 0.061 347.8);
--color-50: #FBF4F8;
--color-100: #F3E2EB;
--color-200: #E6C7D8;
--color-300: #D09FBA;
--color-400: #B87A9C;
--color-500: #9C597E;
--color-600: #794963;
--color-700: #573849;
--color-800: #3A2731;
--color-900: #24191F;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FBF4F8',
100: '#F3E2EB',
200: '#E6C7D8',
300: '#D09FBA',
400: '#B87A9C',
500: '#9C597E',
600: '#794963',
700: '#573849',
800: '#3A2731',
900: '#24191F',
},
}
$base: #401D30; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FBF4F8; $base-100: #F3E2EB; $base-200: #E6C7D8; $base-300: #D09FBA; $base-400: #B87A9C; $base-500: #9C597E; $base-600: #794963; $base-700: #573849; $base-800: #3A2731; $base-900: #24191F; $base-hover: #331726; $base-subtle: #D2AEC2;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#401D30",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF4F8",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F3E2EB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E6C7D8",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D09FBA",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#B87A9C",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#9C597E",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#794963",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#573849",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3A2731",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#24191F",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}