#411D20 is a deep, warm red-orange. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium, restrained and easy to live with. It is too dark to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #411D20 works with other colors. Named schemes with #411D20 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 #411D20 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 #411D20 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #411D20;
--color-base-rgb: 65 29 32;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(28.3% 0.056 16.1);
--color-50: #FBF4F5;
--color-100: #F3E2E4;
--color-200: #E6C7C9;
--color-300: #D09FA3;
--color-400: #B87A7F;
--color-500: #9C595F;
--color-600: #79494D;
--color-700: #57383B;
--color-800: #3A2729;
--color-900: #24191A;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FBF4F5',
100: '#F3E2E4',
200: '#E6C7C9',
300: '#D09FA3',
400: '#B87A7F',
500: '#9C595F',
600: '#79494D',
700: '#57383B',
800: '#3A2729',
900: '#24191A',
},
}
$base: #411D20; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FBF4F5; $base-100: #F3E2E4; $base-200: #E6C7C9; $base-300: #D09FA3; $base-400: #B87A7F; $base-500: #9C595F; $base-600: #79494D; $base-700: #57383B; $base-800: #3A2729; $base-900: #24191A; $base-hover: #331719; $base-subtle: #D2AEB1;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#411D20",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF4F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F3E2E4",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E6C7C9",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D09FA3",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#B87A7F",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#9C595F",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#79494D",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#57383B",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3A2729",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#24191A",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}