#441E23 is a deep, warm red-orange. 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 #441E23 works with other colors. Named schemes with #441E23 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 #441E23 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 #441E23 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #441E23;
--color-base-rgb: 68 30 35;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(29.1% 0.059 13.2);
--color-50: #FBF4F5;
--color-100: #F3E2E4;
--color-200: #E6C6CB;
--color-300: #D19EA5;
--color-400: #B97981;
--color-500: #9D5861;
--color-600: #79494F;
--color-700: #57383C;
--color-800: #3A272A;
--color-900: #24191B;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FBF4F5',
100: '#F3E2E4',
200: '#E6C6CB',
300: '#D19EA5',
400: '#B97981',
500: '#9D5861',
600: '#79494F',
700: '#57383C',
800: '#3A272A',
900: '#24191B',
},
}
$base: #441E23; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FBF4F5; $base-100: #F3E2E4; $base-200: #E6C6CB; $base-300: #D19EA5; $base-400: #B97981; $base-500: #9D5861; $base-600: #79494F; $base-700: #57383C; $base-800: #3A272A; $base-900: #24191B; $base-hover: #36181C; $base-subtle: #D3AFB4;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#441E23",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF4F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F3E2E4",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E6C6CB",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D19EA5",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#B97981",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#9D5861",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#79494F",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#57383C",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3A272A",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#24191B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}