#EBBBD0 is a soft, temperate red. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered. It holds up as a large surface and is too pale to lead as a primary accent.
Not just a swatch — here's how #EBBBD0 works with other colors. Named schemes with #EBBBD0 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Thistle 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 Thistle as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Thistle 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.
Thistle opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Thistle 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 Thistle carrying the quiet middle.
How #EBBBD0 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 #EBBBD0 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #EBBBD0;
--color-base-rgb: 235 187 208;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(84.1% 0.061 350.4);
--color-50: #FCF3F7;
--color-100: #F6DFE9;
--color-200: #EDC0D3;
--color-300: #DB94B3;
--color-400: #C76B93;
--color-500: #AB4A74;
--color-600: #833F5C;
--color-700: #5E3144;
--color-800: #3E232F;
--color-900: #26171E;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
thistle: {
50: '#FCF3F7',
100: '#F6DFE9',
200: '#EDC0D3',
300: '#DB94B3',
400: '#C76B93',
500: '#AB4A74',
600: '#833F5C',
700: '#5E3144',
800: '#3E232F',
900: '#26171E',
},
}
$base: #EBBBD0; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FCF3F7; $base-100: #F6DFE9; $base-200: #EDC0D3; $base-300: #DB94B3; $base-400: #C76B93; $base-500: #AB4A74; $base-600: #833F5C; $base-700: #5E3144; $base-800: #3E232F; $base-900: #26171E; $base-hover: #D87AA3; $base-subtle: #F7EDF1;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#EBBBD0",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF3F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F6DFE9",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EDC0D3",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DB94B3",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C76B93",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#AB4A74",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#833F5C",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5E3144",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3E232F",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#26171E",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}