#4E1F2C is a deep, warm red. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium. It reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #4E1F2C works with other colors. Named schemes with #4E1F2C 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 #4E1F2C 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 #4E1F2C at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #4E1F2C;
--color-base-rgb: 78 31 44;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(31.2% 0.072 4.8);
--color-50: #FBF4F6;
--color-100: #F4E1E7;
--color-200: #E8C5CF;
--color-300: #D39CAC;
--color-400: #BD758A;
--color-500: #A0556A;
--color-600: #7C4655;
--color-700: #593640;
--color-800: #3B262C;
--color-900: #24191C;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FBF4F6',
100: '#F4E1E7',
200: '#E8C5CF',
300: '#D39CAC',
400: '#BD758A',
500: '#A0556A',
600: '#7C4655',
700: '#593640',
800: '#3B262C',
900: '#24191C',
},
}
$base: #4E1F2C; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FBF4F6; $base-100: #F4E1E7; $base-200: #E8C5CF; $base-300: #D39CAC; $base-400: #BD758A; $base-500: #A0556A; $base-600: #7C4655; $base-700: #593640; $base-800: #3B262C; $base-900: #24191C; $base-hover: #3D1823; $base-subtle: #D6AFBA;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#4E1F2C",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF4F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F4E1E7",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E8C5CF",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D39CAC",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#BD758A",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A0556A",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#7C4655",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#593640",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3B262C",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#24191C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}