#DDF4E9 is a pale, temperate off-white. On the Color Lab it reads 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 #DDF4E9 works with other colors. Named schemes with #DDF4E9 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 #DDF4E9 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 #DDF4E9 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #DDF4E9;
--color-base-rgb: 221 244 233;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(94.7% 0.028 165.5);
--color-50: #F3FCF7;
--color-100: #E0F6EB;
--color-200: #C1EBD7;
--color-300: #97D9B9;
--color-400: #6FC39A;
--color-500: #4EA77C;
--color-600: #418162;
--color-700: #335C48;
--color-800: #243D31;
--color-900: #18261F;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
cool-white: {
50: '#F3FCF7',
100: '#E0F6EB',
200: '#C1EBD7',
300: '#97D9B9',
400: '#6FC39A',
500: '#4EA77C',
600: '#418162',
700: '#335C48',
800: '#243D31',
900: '#18261F',
},
}
$base: #DDF4E9; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F3FCF7; $base-100: #E0F6EB; $base-200: #C1EBD7; $base-300: #97D9B9; $base-400: #6FC39A; $base-500: #4EA77C; $base-600: #418162; $base-700: #335C48; $base-800: #243D31; $base-900: #18261F; $base-hover: #96DDBB; $base-subtle: #F5FBF8;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#DDF4E9",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F3FCF7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E0F6EB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C1EBD7",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#97D9B9",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#6FC39A",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#4EA77C",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#418162",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#335C48",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#243D31",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#18261F",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}