#DCDFFA 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 #DCDFFA works with other colors. Named schemes with #DCDFFA 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 #DCDFFA 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 #DCDFFA at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #DCDFFA;
--color-base-rgb: 220 223 250;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(91.0% 0.037 280.6);
--color-50: #F1F2FE;
--color-100: #DADEFB;
--color-200: #B8BEF5;
--color-300: #8791E8;
--color-400: #5B67D7;
--color-500: #3846BC;
--color-600: #323C90;
--color-700: #292F66;
--color-800: #1E2242;
--color-900: #141629;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
lavender: {
50: '#F1F2FE',
100: '#DADEFB',
200: '#B8BEF5',
300: '#8791E8',
400: '#5B67D7',
500: '#3846BC',
600: '#323C90',
700: '#292F66',
800: '#1E2242',
900: '#141629',
},
}
$base: #DCDFFA; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F1F2FE; $base-100: #DADEFB; $base-200: #B8BEF5; $base-300: #8791E8; $base-400: #5B67D7; $base-500: #3846BC; $base-600: #323C90; $base-700: #292F66; $base-800: #1E2242; $base-900: #141629; $base-hover: #8993EE; $base-subtle: #F5F6FC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#DCDFFA",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F1F2FE",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DADEFB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#B8BEF5",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#8791E8",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#5B67D7",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#3846BC",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#323C90",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#292F66",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#1E2242",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#141629",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}