#EBDBCA is a pale, temperate 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 #EBDBCA works with other colors. Named schemes with #EBDBCA in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Almond 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 Almond as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Almond 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.
Almond opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Almond 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 Almond carrying the quiet middle.
How #EBDBCA 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 #EBDBCA at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #EBDBCA;
--color-base-rgb: 235 219 202;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(90.0% 0.029 69.1);
--color-50: #FBF7F4;
--color-100: #F4EBE1;
--color-200: #E8D7C4;
--color-300: #D5B99B;
--color-400: #BE9A74;
--color-500: #A27C53;
--color-600: #7D6245;
--color-700: #5A4835;
--color-800: #3B3126;
--color-900: #251F19;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
almond: {
50: '#FBF7F4',
100: '#F4EBE1',
200: '#E8D7C4',
300: '#D5B99B',
400: '#BE9A74',
500: '#A27C53',
600: '#7D6245',
700: '#5A4835',
800: '#3B3126',
900: '#251F19',
},
}
$base: #EBDBCA; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FBF7F4; $base-100: #F4EBE1; $base-200: #E8D7C4; $base-300: #D5B99B; $base-400: #BE9A74; $base-500: #A27C53; $base-600: #7D6245; $base-700: #5A4835; $base-800: #3B3126; $base-900: #251F19; $base-hover: #D3B18C; $base-subtle: #F8F4F1;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#EBDBCA",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF7F4",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F4EBE1",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E8D7C4",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D5B99B",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#BE9A74",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A27C53",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#7D6245",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5A4835",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3B3126",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#251F19",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}