#DDF2EB 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 #DDF2EB works with other colors. Named schemes with #DDF2EB in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Cool White 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.
Cool White opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Cool White keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Cool White 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 Cool White carrying the quiet middle.
Cool White is the vivid signal in this product UI — on a near-black surface with cool white, a slate grey and a lighter tint of Cool White.
How #DDF2EB 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 #DDF2EB at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #DDF2EB;
--color-base-rgb: 221 242 235;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(94.4% 0.024 173.8);
--color-50: #F4FBF9;
--color-100: #E1F4EE;
--color-200: #C4E8DC;
--color-300: #9BD5C1;
--color-400: #74BEA5;
--color-500: #53A288;
--color-600: #457D6A;
--color-700: #355A4D;
--color-800: #263B34;
--color-900: #192521;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
cool-white: {
50: '#F4FBF9',
100: '#E1F4EE',
200: '#C4E8DC',
300: '#9BD5C1',
400: '#74BEA5',
500: '#53A288',
600: '#457D6A',
700: '#355A4D',
800: '#263B34',
900: '#192521',
},
}
$base: #DDF2EB; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F4FBF9; $base-100: #E1F4EE; $base-200: #C4E8DC; $base-300: #9BD5C1; $base-400: #74BEA5; $base-500: #53A288; $base-600: #457D6A; $base-700: #355A4D; $base-800: #263B34; $base-900: #192521; $base-hover: #9AD9C4; $base-subtle: #F6FAF9;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#DDF2EB",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F4FBF9",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E1F4EE",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C4E8DC",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#9BD5C1",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#74BEA5",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#53A288",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#457D6A",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#355A4D",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#263B34",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#192521",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}