#E7ACBD is a soft, warm red. It is too pale to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #E7ACBD works with other colors. Named schemes with #E7ACBD in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Carnation 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.
This palette keeps Carnation as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Carnation anchors this café scheme as the warm mid-tone, lifted by latte cream and a muted sage accent and grounded by espresso brown and a warm charcoal.
Carnation opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Carnation 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 Carnation carrying the quiet middle.
How #E7ACBD 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 #E7ACBD at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #E7ACBD;
--color-base-rgb: 231 172 189;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(80.4% 0.072 359.9);
--color-50: #FCF3F5;
--color-100: #F6DFE5;
--color-200: #EDC0CD;
--color-300: #DB94A8;
--color-400: #C76B85;
--color-500: #AB4A65;
--color-600: #833F52;
--color-700: #5E313E;
--color-800: #3E232B;
--color-900: #26171B;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
carnation: {
50: '#FCF3F5',
100: '#F6DFE5',
200: '#EDC0CD',
300: '#DB94A8',
400: '#C76B85',
500: '#AB4A65',
600: '#833F52',
700: '#5E313E',
800: '#3E232B',
900: '#26171B',
},
}
$base: #E7ACBD; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FCF3F5; $base-100: #F6DFE5; $base-200: #EDC0CD; $base-300: #DB94A8; $base-400: #C76B85; $base-500: #AB4A65; $base-600: #833F52; $base-700: #5E313E; $base-800: #3E232B; $base-900: #26171B; $base-hover: #D56E8B; $base-subtle: #F6E8EC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#E7ACBD",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF3F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F6DFE5",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EDC0CD",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DB94A8",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C76B85",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#AB4A65",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#833F52",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5E313E",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3E232B",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#26171B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}