#EBF3FE is a light neutral with only a whisper of temperate cast. 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 #EBF3FE works with other colors. Named schemes with #EBF3FE in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Cool White 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.
Cool White opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Cool White is the vivid signal in this product UI — on a near-black surface with cool white, a slate grey and a lighter tint of Cool White.
Cool White keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Cool White 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 Cool White carrying the quiet middle.
How #EBF3FE 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 #EBF3FE at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #EBF3FE;
--color-base-rgb: 235 243 254;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(96.1% 0.017 256.3);
--color-50: #F0F6FE;
--color-100: #D8E7FD;
--color-200: #B2D0FB;
--color-300: #7EAEF2;
--color-400: #4F8DE3;
--color-500: #2B6DCA;
--color-600: #295899;
--color-700: #23416C;
--color-800: #1B2D46;
--color-900: #121D2B;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
cool-white: {
50: '#F0F6FE',
100: '#D8E7FD',
200: '#B2D0FB',
300: '#7EAEF2',
400: '#4F8DE3',
500: '#2B6DCA',
600: '#295899',
700: '#23416C',
800: '#1B2D46',
900: '#121D2B',
},
}
$base: #EBF3FE; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F0F6FE; $base-100: #D8E7FD; $base-200: #B2D0FB; $base-300: #7EAEF2; $base-400: #4F8DE3; $base-500: #2B6DCA; $base-600: #295899; $base-700: #23416C; $base-800: #1B2D46; $base-900: #121D2B; $base-hover: #8FBBF9; $base-subtle: #FAFCFE;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#EBF3FE",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F0F6FE",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#D8E7FD",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#B2D0FB",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#7EAEF2",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#4F8DE3",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#2B6DCA",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#295899",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#23416C",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#1B2D46",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#121D2B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}