#DBD9FA is a muted, temperate purple. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, restrained and easy to live with. It holds up as a large surface and is too pale to lead as a primary accent.
Not just a swatch — here's how #DBD9FA works with other colors. Named schemes with #DBD9FA in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Lavender keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Lavender 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.
Lavender opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Lavender 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 Lavender carrying the quiet middle.
Lavender is the vivid signal in this product UI — on a near-black surface with cool white, a slate grey and a lighter tint of Lavender.
How #DBD9FA 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 #DBD9FA at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #DBD9FA;
--color-base-rgb: 219 217 250;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(89.7% 0.045 288.2);
--color-50: #F2F1FE;
--color-100: #DCDAFB;
--color-200: #BBB7F5;
--color-300: #8D86E9;
--color-400: #6259D9;
--color-500: #4037BE;
--color-600: #373191;
--color-700: #2C2866;
--color-800: #201E43;
--color-900: #161429;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
lavender: {
50: '#F2F1FE',
100: '#DCDAFB',
200: '#BBB7F5',
300: '#8D86E9',
400: '#6259D9',
500: '#4037BE',
600: '#373191',
700: '#2C2866',
800: '#201E43',
900: '#161429',
},
}
$base: #DBD9FA; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F2F1FE; $base-100: #DCDAFB; $base-200: #BBB7F5; $base-300: #8D86E9; $base-400: #6259D9; $base-500: #4037BE; $base-600: #373191; $base-700: #2C2866; $base-800: #201E43; $base-900: #161429; $base-hover: #8F88F0; $base-subtle: #F6F5FC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#DBD9FA",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F2F1FE",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DCDAFB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#BBB7F5",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#8D86E9",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#6259D9",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#4037BE",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#373191",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#2C2866",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#201E43",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#161429",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}