#412233 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 #412233 works with other colors. Named schemes with #412233 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 #412233 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 #412233 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #412233;
--color-base-rgb: 65 34 51;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(30.0% 0.054 346.8);
--color-50: #FAF5F8;
--color-100: #F1E4EB;
--color-200: #E3CAD7;
--color-300: #CCA4BA;
--color-400: #B37F9C;
--color-500: #965F7D;
--color-600: #744E63;
--color-700: #543B49;
--color-800: #382931;
--color-900: #231A1F;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FAF5F8',
100: '#F1E4EB',
200: '#E3CAD7',
300: '#CCA4BA',
400: '#B37F9C',
500: '#965F7D',
600: '#744E63',
700: '#543B49',
800: '#382931',
900: '#231A1F',
},
}
$base: #412233; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FAF5F8; $base-100: #F1E4EB; $base-200: #E3CAD7; $base-300: #CCA4BA; $base-400: #B37F9C; $base-500: #965F7D; $base-600: #744E63; $base-700: #543B49; $base-800: #382931; $base-900: #231A1F; $base-hover: #331B28; $base-subtle: #D0B2C2;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#412233",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FAF5F8",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F1E4EB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E3CAD7",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#CCA4BA",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#B37F9C",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#965F7D",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#744E63",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#543B49",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#382931",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#231A1F",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}