#EBF4F9 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 #EBF4F9 works with other colors. Named schemes with #EBF4F9 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 #EBF4F9 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 #EBF4F9 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #EBF4F9;
--color-base-rgb: 235 244 249;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(96.2% 0.012 231.7);
--color-50: #F3F9FC;
--color-100: #DFEEF6;
--color-200: #C0DDEC;
--color-300: #95C2DA;
--color-400: #6CA6C6;
--color-500: #4B89AA;
--color-600: #3F6B83;
--color-700: #324E5D;
--color-800: #23343D;
--color-900: #172126;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
cool-white: {
50: '#F3F9FC',
100: '#DFEEF6',
200: '#C0DDEC',
300: '#95C2DA',
400: '#6CA6C6',
500: '#4B89AA',
600: '#3F6B83',
700: '#324E5D',
800: '#23343D',
900: '#172126',
},
}
$base: #EBF4F9; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F3F9FC; $base-100: #DFEEF6; $base-200: #C0DDEC; $base-300: #95C2DA; $base-400: #6CA6C6; $base-500: #4B89AA; $base-600: #3F6B83; $base-700: #324E5D; $base-800: #23343D; $base-900: #172126; $base-hover: #A1CCE3; $base-subtle: #FAFCFD;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#EBF4F9",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F3F9FC",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DFEEF6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C0DDEC",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#95C2DA",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#6CA6C6",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#4B89AA",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#3F6B83",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#324E5D",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#23343D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#172126",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}