#E1F4EB 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 #E1F4EB works with other colors. Named schemes with #E1F4EB 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 #E1F4EB 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 #E1F4EB at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #E1F4EB;
--color-base-rgb: 225 244 235;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(95.1% 0.023 165.9);
--color-50: #F3FBF8;
--color-100: #E1F5EB;
--color-200: #C4E9D7;
--color-300: #9AD5BA;
--color-400: #73BF9C;
--color-500: #52A37D;
--color-600: #447E63;
--color-700: #355A49;
--color-800: #253C31;
--color-900: #18251F;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
cool-white: {
50: '#F3FBF8',
100: '#E1F5EB',
200: '#C4E9D7',
300: '#9AD5BA',
400: '#73BF9C',
500: '#52A37D',
600: '#447E63',
700: '#355A49',
800: '#253C31',
900: '#18251F',
},
}
$base: #E1F4EB; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F3FBF8; $base-100: #E1F5EB; $base-200: #C4E9D7; $base-300: #9AD5BA; $base-400: #73BF9C; $base-500: #52A37D; $base-600: #447E63; $base-700: #355A49; $base-800: #253C31; $base-900: #18251F; $base-hover: #9DDBBE; $base-subtle: #F7FBF9;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#E1F4EB",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F3FBF8",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E1F5EB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C4E9D7",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#9AD5BA",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#73BF9C",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#52A37D",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#447E63",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#355A49",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#253C31",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#18251F",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}