Internet Colors - Set of 1035

Bistre Color 60 - #3D2B1F

Bistre (or bister) is a very dark shade of grayish black, or a shade of brown made from soot, or the name for a color resembling the brownish pigment. Bistre's appearance is generally of a dark grayish brown, with a yellowish cast.

Beechwood was burned to produce the soot, which was boiled and diluted with water. Many Old Masters used bistre as the ink for their drawings. The first recorded use of bistre as a color name in English was in 1727; another name for the color bistre is soot brown.