#412A2D is a muted, temperate red. 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 #412A2D works with other colors. Named schemes with #412A2D 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 #412A2D 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 #412A2D at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #412A2D;
--color-base-rgb: 65 42 45;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(31.4% 0.035 10.7);
--color-50: #F9F6F6;
--color-100: #EFE6E7;
--color-200: #DFCED0;
--color-300: #C5AAAE;
--color-400: #AA888C;
--color-500: #8D686D;
--color-600: #6E5457;
--color-700: #503F41;
--color-800: #352B2D;
--color-900: #211C1D;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#F9F6F6',
100: '#EFE6E7',
200: '#DFCED0',
300: '#C5AAAE',
400: '#AA888C',
500: '#8D686D',
600: '#6E5457',
700: '#503F41',
800: '#352B2D',
900: '#211C1D',
},
}
$base: #412A2D; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F9F6F6; $base-100: #EFE6E7; $base-200: #DFCED0; $base-300: #C5AAAE; $base-400: #AA888C; $base-500: #8D686D; $base-600: #6E5457; $base-700: #503F41; $base-800: #352B2D; $base-900: #211C1D; $base-hover: #342224; $base-subtle: #CCB9BB;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#412A2D",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9F6F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#EFE6E7",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#DFCED0",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C5AAAE",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#AA888C",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#8D686D",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#6E5457",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#503F41",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#352B2D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#211C1D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}