#441D2A is a deep, warm red. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium. It is too dark to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #441D2A works with other colors. Named schemes with #441D2A 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 #441D2A 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 #441D2A at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #441D2A;
--color-base-rgb: 68 29 42;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(29.1% 0.062 0.6);
--color-50: #FBF4F6;
--color-100: #F3E2E8;
--color-200: #E6C6D1;
--color-300: #D19EAF;
--color-400: #BA788E;
--color-500: #9E576F;
--color-600: #7A4859;
--color-700: #583742;
--color-800: #3A272D;
--color-900: #24191D;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FBF4F6',
100: '#F3E2E8',
200: '#E6C6D1',
300: '#D19EAF',
400: '#BA788E',
500: '#9E576F',
600: '#7A4859',
700: '#583742',
800: '#3A272D',
900: '#24191D',
},
}
$base: #441D2A; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FBF4F6; $base-100: #F3E2E8; $base-200: #E6C6D1; $base-300: #D19EAF; $base-400: #BA788E; $base-500: #9E576F; $base-600: #7A4859; $base-700: #583742; $base-800: #3A272D; $base-900: #24191D; $base-hover: #361722; $base-subtle: #D4AEBB;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#441D2A",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF4F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F3E2E8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E6C6D1",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D19EAF",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#BA788E",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#9E576F",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#7A4859",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#583742",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3A272D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#24191D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}