#EDADCD is a soft, warm rose. 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 #EDADCD works with other colors. Named schemes with #EDADCD 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 #EDADCD 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 #EDADCD at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #EDADCD;
--color-base-rgb: 237 173 205;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(81.7% 0.085 347.7);
--color-50: #FDF2F7;
--color-100: #F8DDEB;
--color-200: #F0BCD6;
--color-300: #E18EB8;
--color-400: #CE6499;
--color-500: #B3427A;
--color-600: #893961;
--color-700: #612E47;
--color-800: #402130;
--color-900: #27161F;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
carnation: {
50: '#FDF2F7',
100: '#F8DDEB',
200: '#F0BCD6',
300: '#E18EB8',
400: '#CE6499',
500: '#B3427A',
600: '#893961',
700: '#612E47',
800: '#402130',
900: '#27161F',
},
}
$base: #EDADCD; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FDF2F7; $base-100: #F8DDEB; $base-200: #F0BCD6; $base-300: #E18EB8; $base-400: #CE6499; $base-500: #B3427A; $base-600: #893961; $base-700: #612E47; $base-800: #402130; $base-900: #27161F; $base-hover: #DE68A3; $base-subtle: #F7E8F0;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#EDADCD",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FDF2F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F8DDEB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F0BCD6",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#E18EB8",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#CE6499",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#B3427A",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#893961",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#612E47",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#402130",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#27161F",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}