#461B31 is a deep, warm red. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, quietly premium. It reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #461B31 works with other colors. Named schemes with #461B31 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 #461B31 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 #461B31 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #461B31;
--color-base-rgb: 70 27 49;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(29.4% 0.072 350.5);
--color-50: #FBF4F7;
--color-100: #F4E1EB;
--color-200: #E8C4D7;
--color-300: #D49BB9;
--color-400: #BD759A;
--color-500: #A1547C;
--color-600: #7C4662;
--color-700: #593648;
--color-800: #3B2631;
--color-900: #25191F;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FBF4F7',
100: '#F4E1EB',
200: '#E8C4D7',
300: '#D49BB9',
400: '#BD759A',
500: '#A1547C',
600: '#7C4662',
700: '#593648',
800: '#3B2631',
900: '#25191F',
},
}
$base: #461B31; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FBF4F7; $base-100: #F4E1EB; $base-200: #E8C4D7; $base-300: #D49BB9; $base-400: #BD759A; $base-500: #A1547C; $base-600: #7C4662; $base-700: #593648; $base-800: #3B2631; $base-900: #25191F; $base-hover: #381627; $base-subtle: #D6ACC2;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#461B31",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF4F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F4E1EB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E8C4D7",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D49BB9",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#BD759A",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A1547C",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#7C4662",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#593648",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3B2631",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#25191F",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}