#EBADA3 is a soft, warm orange. On the Color Lab it reads organic and grounded. It is too pale to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #EBADA3 works with other colors. Named schemes with #EBADA3 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
This palette keeps Dusty Rose as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Dusty Rose 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.
Dusty Rose holds the warm center of this desert palette with sand and clay beside it, a muted-sage accent and a dark-brown anchor.
Dusty Rose opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Dusty Rose 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 Dusty Rose carrying the quiet middle.
How #EBADA3 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 #EBADA3 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #EBADA3;
--color-base-rgb: 235 173 163;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(80.3% 0.075 29.2);
--color-50: #FDF3F2;
--color-100: #F8E0DD;
--color-200: #F0C3BC;
--color-300: #E1998E;
--color-400: #CE7264;
--color-500: #B35142;
--color-600: #894439;
--color-700: #61342E;
--color-800: #402521;
--color-900: #271816;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
dusty-rose: {
50: '#FDF3F2',
100: '#F8E0DD',
200: '#F0C3BC',
300: '#E1998E',
400: '#CE7264',
500: '#B35142',
600: '#894439',
700: '#61342E',
800: '#402521',
900: '#271816',
},
}
$base: #EBADA3; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FDF3F2; $base-100: #F8E0DD; $base-200: #F0C3BC; $base-300: #E1998E; $base-400: #CE7264; $base-500: #B35142; $base-600: #894439; $base-700: #61342E; $base-800: #402521; $base-900: #271816; $base-hover: #DC7262; $base-subtle: #F6E8E6;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#EBADA3",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FDF3F2",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F8E0DD",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F0C3BC",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#E1998E",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#CE7264",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#B35142",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#894439",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#61342E",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#402521",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#271816",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}