#ECB0CA is a soft, warm red. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered. It is too pale to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #ECB0CA works with other colors. Named schemes with #ECB0CA in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Carnation 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 Carnation as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Carnation 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.
Carnation opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Carnation 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 Carnation carrying the quiet middle.
How #ECB0CA 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 #ECB0CA at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #ECB0CA;
--color-base-rgb: 236 176 202;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(82.0% 0.077 351.2);
--color-50: #FCF2F7;
--color-100: #F8DDE9;
--color-200: #EFBDD3;
--color-300: #DF90B2;
--color-400: #CB6792;
--color-500: #B04573;
--color-600: #873B5C;
--color-700: #602F44;
--color-800: #3F222E;
--color-900: #27161D;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
carnation: {
50: '#FCF2F7',
100: '#F8DDE9',
200: '#EFBDD3',
300: '#DF90B2',
400: '#CB6792',
500: '#B04573',
600: '#873B5C',
700: '#602F44',
800: '#3F222E',
900: '#27161D',
},
}
$base: #ECB0CA; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FCF2F7; $base-100: #F8DDE9; $base-200: #EFBDD3; $base-300: #DF90B2; $base-400: #CB6792; $base-500: #B04573; $base-600: #873B5C; $base-700: #602F44; $base-800: #3F222E; $base-900: #27161D; $base-hover: #DC6E9E; $base-subtle: #F7EAF0;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#ECB0CA",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF2F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F8DDE9",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EFBDD3",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DF90B2",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#CB6792",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#B04573",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#873B5C",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#602F44",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3F222E",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#27161D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}