#DBDBFA is a pale, temperate off-white. 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 #DBDBFA works with other colors. Named schemes with #DBDBFA 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 #DBDBFA 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 #DBDBFA at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #DBDBFA;
--color-base-rgb: 219 219 250;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(90.1% 0.042 285.5);
--color-50: #F1F1FE;
--color-100: #DADAFB;
--color-200: #B7B7F5;
--color-300: #8787E9;
--color-400: #5A5AD8;
--color-500: #3737BD;
--color-600: #323290;
--color-700: #292966;
--color-800: #1E1E43;
--color-900: #141429;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
lavender: {
50: '#F1F1FE',
100: '#DADAFB',
200: '#B7B7F5',
300: '#8787E9',
400: '#5A5AD8',
500: '#3737BD',
600: '#323290',
700: '#292966',
800: '#1E1E43',
900: '#141429',
},
}
$base: #DBDBFA; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F1F1FE; $base-100: #DADAFB; $base-200: #B7B7F5; $base-300: #8787E9; $base-400: #5A5AD8; $base-500: #3737BD; $base-600: #323290; $base-700: #292966; $base-800: #1E1E43; $base-900: #141429; $base-hover: #8989EF; $base-subtle: #F5F5FC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#DBDBFA",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F1F1FE",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DADAFB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#B7B7F5",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#8787E9",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#5A5AD8",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#3737BD",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#323290",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#292966",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#1E1E43",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#141429",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}