#4F2B33 is a deep, warm red. On the Color Lab it reads quietly premium, restrained and easy to live with. It reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #4F2B33 works with other colors. Named schemes with #4F2B33 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 #4F2B33 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 #4F2B33 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #4F2B33;
--color-base-rgb: 79 43 51;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(33.8% 0.054 6.1);
--color-50: #FAF5F6;
--color-100: #F1E4E7;
--color-200: #E2CACF;
--color-300: #CBA4AD;
--color-400: #B2808B;
--color-500: #95606B;
--color-600: #744E56;
--color-700: #543B41;
--color-800: #38292C;
--color-900: #231B1C;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bistre: {
50: '#FAF5F6',
100: '#F1E4E7',
200: '#E2CACF',
300: '#CBA4AD',
400: '#B2808B',
500: '#95606B',
600: '#744E56',
700: '#543B41',
800: '#38292C',
900: '#231B1C',
},
}
$base: #4F2B33; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #FAF5F6; $base-100: #F1E4E7; $base-200: #E2CACF; $base-300: #CBA4AD; $base-400: #B2808B; $base-500: #95606B; $base-600: #744E56; $base-700: #543B41; $base-800: #38292C; $base-900: #231B1C; $base-hover: #402229; $base-subtle: #D2B8BD;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#4F2B33",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FAF5F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F1E4E7",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E2CACF",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#CBA4AD",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#B2808B",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#95606B",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#744E56",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#543B41",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#38292C",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#231B1C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}