#413227 is a muted, temperate yellow. 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 #413227 works with other colors. Named schemes with #413227 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 #413227 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 #413227 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #413227;
--color-base-rgb: 65 50 39;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(33.1% 0.029 57.8);
--color-50: #F9F7F5;
--color-100: #F0EAE5;
--color-200: #E0D5CC;
--color-300: #C8B5A7;
--color-400: #AE9684;
--color-500: #907764;
--color-600: #705E51;
--color-700: #51463D;
--color-800: #362F2A;
--color-900: #221E1B;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#F9F7F5',
100: '#F0EAE5',
200: '#E0D5CC',
300: '#C8B5A7',
400: '#AE9684',
500: '#907764',
600: '#705E51',
700: '#51463D',
800: '#362F2A',
900: '#221E1B',
},
}
$base: #413227; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F9F7F5; $base-100: #F0EAE5; $base-200: #E0D5CC; $base-300: #C8B5A7; $base-400: #AE9684; $base-500: #907764; $base-600: #705E51; $base-700: #51463D; $base-800: #362F2A; $base-900: #221E1B; $base-hover: #33271F; $base-subtle: #CDC0B6;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#413227",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9F7F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F0EAE5",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E0D5CC",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C8B5A7",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#AE9684",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#907764",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#705E51",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#51463D",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#362F2A",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#221E1B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}