#CA4E86 is a mid-toned, warm red. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered. It carries a legible label as a UI accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #CA4E86 works with other colors. Named schemes with #CA4E86 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Mulberry 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.
Mulberry plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Mulberry sits between cream and a deep berry here, softened by a blush accent and grounded by charcoal.
This palette keeps Mulberry as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Mulberry 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 Mulberry carrying the quiet middle.
How #CA4E86 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 #CA4E86 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #CA4E86;
--color-base-rgb: 202 78 134;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(60.4% 0.167 355.2);
--color-50: #FCF3F7;
--color-100: #F6DFE9;
--color-200: #ECC0D4;
--color-300: #DA95B4;
--color-400: #C66C95;
--color-500: #AA4B76;
--color-600: #833F5E;
--color-700: #5D3245;
--color-800: #3D232F;
--color-900: #26171E;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
mulberry: {
50: '#FCF3F7',
100: '#F6DFE9',
200: '#ECC0D4',
300: '#DA95B4',
400: '#C66C95',
500: '#AA4B76',
600: '#833F5E',
700: '#5D3245',
800: '#3D232F',
900: '#26171E',
},
}
$base: #CA4E86; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FCF3F7; $base-100: #F6DFE9; $base-200: #ECC0D4; $base-300: #DA95B4; $base-400: #C66C95; $base-500: #AA4B76; $base-600: #833F5E; $base-700: #5D3245; $base-800: #3D232F; $base-900: #26171E; $base-hover: #AD346A; $base-subtle: #EBCEDB;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#CA4E86",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF3F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F6DFE9",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#ECC0D4",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DA95B4",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C66C95",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#AA4B76",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#833F5E",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5D3245",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3D232F",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#26171E",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}