#DFDAF7 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 #DFDAF7 works with other colors. Named schemes with #DFDAF7 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
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 keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal 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 sits between cream and a deep berry here, softened by a blush accent and grounded by charcoal.
How #DFDAF7 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 #DFDAF7 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #DFDAF7;
--color-base-rgb: 223 218 247;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(90.1% 0.040 293.5);
--color-50: #F4F2FD;
--color-100: #E1DDF8;
--color-200: #C5BCF0;
--color-300: #9C8EE1;
--color-400: #7664CE;
--color-500: #5542B3;
--color-600: #463989;
--color-700: #362E61;
--color-800: #262140;
--color-900: #191627;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
lavender: {
50: '#F4F2FD',
100: '#E1DDF8',
200: '#C5BCF0',
300: '#9C8EE1',
400: '#7664CE',
500: '#5542B3',
600: '#463989',
700: '#362E61',
800: '#262140',
900: '#191627',
},
}
$base: #DFDAF7; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F4F2FD; $base-100: #E1DDF8; $base-200: #C5BCF0; $base-300: #9C8EE1; $base-400: #7664CE; $base-500: #5542B3; $base-600: #463989; $base-700: #362E61; $base-800: #262140; $base-900: #191627; $base-hover: #9C8DE6; $base-subtle: #F6F5FB;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#DFDAF7",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F4F2FD",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E1DDF8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C5BCF0",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#9C8EE1",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#7664CE",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#5542B3",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#463989",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#362E61",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#262140",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#191627",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}