#EBCAE2 is a muted, temperate rose. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, 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 #EBCAE2 works with other colors. Named schemes with #EBCAE2 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Rose Quartz 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.
Rose Quartz opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Rose Quartz keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Rose Quartz 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 Rose Quartz carrying the quiet middle.
Rose Quartz sits between cream and a deep berry here, softened by a blush accent and grounded by charcoal.
How #EBCAE2 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 #EBCAE2 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #EBCAE2;
--color-base-rgb: 235 202 226;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(87.4% 0.049 335.7);
--color-50: #FBF4F9;
--color-100: #F4E1EF;
--color-200: #E8C4DF;
--color-300: #D59BC5;
--color-400: #BE74AA;
--color-500: #A2538D;
--color-600: #7D456E;
--color-700: #5A3550;
--color-800: #3B2635;
--color-900: #251921;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
rose-quartz: {
50: '#FBF4F9',
100: '#F4E1EF',
200: '#E8C4DF',
300: '#D59BC5',
400: '#BE74AA',
500: '#A2538D',
600: '#7D456E',
700: '#5A3550',
800: '#3B2635',
900: '#251921',
},
}
$base: #EBCAE2; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FBF4F9; $base-100: #F4E1EF; $base-200: #E8C4DF; $base-300: #D59BC5; $base-400: #BE74AA; $base-500: #A2538D; $base-600: #7D456E; $base-700: #5A3550; $base-800: #3B2635; $base-900: #251921; $base-hover: #D38CC0; $base-subtle: #F8F1F6;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#EBCAE2",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF4F9",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F4E1EF",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E8C4DF",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D59BC5",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#BE74AA",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A2538D",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#7D456E",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5A3550",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3B2635",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#251921",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}