#DEDDFA 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 #DEDDFA works with other colors. Named schemes with #DEDDFA 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 #DEDDFA 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 #DEDDFA at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #DEDDFA;
--color-base-rgb: 222 221 250;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(90.7% 0.039 287.2);
--color-50: #F2F1FE;
--color-100: #DCDBFB;
--color-200: #BAB8F4;
--color-300: #8B88E7;
--color-400: #605CD6;
--color-500: #3E39BC;
--color-600: #36338F;
--color-700: #2C2A65;
--color-800: #201F42;
--color-900: #151529;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
lavender: {
50: '#F2F1FE',
100: '#DCDBFB',
200: '#BAB8F4',
300: '#8B88E7',
400: '#605CD6',
500: '#3E39BC',
600: '#36338F',
700: '#2C2A65',
800: '#201F42',
900: '#151529',
},
}
$base: #DEDDFA; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F2F1FE; $base-100: #DCDBFB; $base-200: #BAB8F4; $base-300: #8B88E7; $base-400: #605CD6; $base-500: #3E39BC; $base-600: #36338F; $base-700: #2C2A65; $base-800: #201F42; $base-900: #151529; $base-hover: #8D8AED; $base-subtle: #F6F5FC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#DEDDFA",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F2F1FE",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DCDBFB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#BAB8F4",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#8B88E7",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#605CD6",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#3E39BC",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#36338F",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#2C2A65",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#201F42",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#151529",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}