#DFDFFA 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 #DFDFFA works with other colors. Named schemes with #DFDFFA 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 #DFDFFA 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 #DFDFFA at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #DFDFFA;
--color-base-rgb: 223 223 250;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(91.2% 0.037 285.7);
--color-50: #F1F1FD;
--color-100: #DBDBFA;
--color-200: #B9B9F4;
--color-300: #8888E7;
--color-400: #5D5DD5;
--color-500: #3A3ABB;
--color-600: #33338E;
--color-700: #2A2A65;
--color-800: #1F1F42;
--color-900: #151528;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
lavender: {
50: '#F1F1FD',
100: '#DBDBFA',
200: '#B9B9F4',
300: '#8888E7',
400: '#5D5DD5',
500: '#3A3ABB',
600: '#33338E',
700: '#2A2A65',
800: '#1F1F42',
900: '#151528',
},
}
$base: #DFDFFA; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F1F1FD; $base-100: #DBDBFA; $base-200: #B9B9F4; $base-300: #8888E7; $base-400: #5D5DD5; $base-500: #3A3ABB; $base-600: #33338E; $base-700: #2A2A65; $base-800: #1F1F42; $base-900: #151528; $base-hover: #8E8EED; $base-subtle: #F7F7FD;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#DFDFFA",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F1F1FD",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DBDBFA",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#B9B9F4",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#8888E7",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#5D5DD5",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#3A3ABB",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#33338E",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#2A2A65",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#1F1F42",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#151528",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}