#EAD5BF is a pale, warm 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 #EAD5BF works with other colors. Named schemes with #EAD5BF in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
This palette keeps Bone as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Bone 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.
Bone holds the warm center of this desert palette with sand and clay beside it, a muted-sage accent and a dark-brown anchor.
Bone opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Bone 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 Bone carrying the quiet middle.
How #EAD5BF 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 #EAD5BF at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #EAD5BF;
--color-base-rgb: 234 213 191;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(88.4% 0.038 68.6);
--color-50: #FCF7F3;
--color-100: #F6EBE0;
--color-200: #EBD7C1;
--color-300: #D9B997;
--color-400: #C39A6F;
--color-500: #A77C4E;
--color-600: #816241;
--color-700: #5C4833;
--color-800: #3D3124;
--color-900: #261F18;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
bone: {
50: '#FCF7F3',
100: '#F6EBE0',
200: '#EBD7C1',
300: '#D9B997',
400: '#C39A6F',
500: '#A77C4E',
600: '#816241',
700: '#5C4833',
800: '#3D3124',
900: '#261F18',
},
}
$base: #EAD5BF; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FCF7F3; $base-100: #F6EBE0; $base-200: #EBD7C1; $base-300: #D9B997; $base-400: #C39A6F; $base-500: #A77C4E; $base-600: #816241; $base-700: #5C4833; $base-800: #3D3124; $base-900: #261F18; $base-hover: #D5AB7E; $base-subtle: #F7F2ED;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#EAD5BF",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF7F3",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F6EBE0",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EBD7C1",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D9B997",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C39A6F",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A77C4E",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#816241",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5C4833",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3D3124",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#261F18",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}