#EBCBE4 is a muted, temperate pink. 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 #EBCBE4 works with other colors. Named schemes with #EBCBE4 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Pastel Pink 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.
Pastel Pink opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Pastel Pink keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Pastel Pink 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 Pastel Pink carrying the quiet middle.
Pastel Pink sits between cream and a deep berry here, softened by a blush accent and grounded by charcoal.
How #EBCBE4 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 #EBCBE4 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #EBCBE4;
--color-base-rgb: 235 203 228;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(87.6% 0.049 333.5);
--color-50: #FBF4F9;
--color-100: #F4E1F0;
--color-200: #E8C4E0;
--color-300: #D49BC8;
--color-400: #BD75AE;
--color-500: #A15490;
--color-600: #7C4670;
--color-700: #593651;
--color-800: #3B2636;
--color-900: #251922;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
pastel-pink: {
50: '#FBF4F9',
100: '#F4E1F0',
200: '#E8C4E0',
300: '#D49BC8',
400: '#BD75AE',
500: '#A15490',
600: '#7C4670',
700: '#593651',
800: '#3B2636',
900: '#251922',
},
}
$base: #EBCBE4; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FBF4F9; $base-100: #F4E1F0; $base-200: #E8C4E0; $base-300: #D49BC8; $base-400: #BD75AE; $base-500: #A15490; $base-600: #7C4670; $base-700: #593651; $base-800: #3B2636; $base-900: #251922; $base-hover: #D28CC3; $base-subtle: #F8F1F6;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#EBCBE4",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF4F9",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F4E1F0",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E8C4E0",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D49BC8",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#BD75AE",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A15490",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#7C4670",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#593651",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3B2636",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#251922",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}