#685348 is a muted, warm amber. On the Color Lab it reads with a faded, vintage edge, restrained and easy to live with. It reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #685348 works with other colors. Named schemes with #685348 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
This palette keeps Umber as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Umber anchors this café scheme as the warm mid-tone, lifted by latte cream and a muted sage accent and grounded by espresso brown and a warm charcoal.
Umber plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Umber holds the warm center of this desert palette with sand and clay beside it, a muted-sage accent and a dark-brown anchor.
Umber 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 Umber carrying the quiet middle.
How #685348 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 #685348 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #685348;
--color-base-rgb: 104 83 72;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(46.0% 0.033 49.1);
--color-50: #F9F7F6;
--color-100: #EEE9E7;
--color-200: #DED4CF;
--color-300: #C3B4AC;
--color-400: #A8958A;
--color-500: #8A766B;
--color-600: #6C5E56;
--color-700: #4F4540;
--color-800: #352F2C;
--color-900: #211E1C;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
umber: {
50: '#F9F7F6',
100: '#EEE9E7',
200: '#DED4CF',
300: '#C3B4AC',
400: '#A8958A',
500: '#8A766B',
600: '#6C5E56',
700: '#4F4540',
800: '#352F2C',
900: '#211E1C',
},
}
$base: #685348; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F9F7F6; $base-100: #EEE9E7; $base-200: #DED4CF; $base-300: #C3B4AC; $base-400: #A8958A; $base-500: #8A766B; $base-600: #6C5E56; $base-700: #4F4540; $base-800: #352F2C; $base-900: #211E1C; $base-hover: #54443B; $base-subtle: #D4CBC6;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#685348",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9F7F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#EEE9E7",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#DED4CF",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C3B4AC",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#A8958A",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#8A766B",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#6C5E56",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#4F4540",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#352F2C",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#211E1C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}