#EDCDDE is a pale, temperate off-white. 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 #EDCDDE works with other colors. Named schemes with #EDCDDE in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Rose Quartz 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.
Rose Quartz opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Rose Quartz keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Rose Quartz 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 Rose Quartz carrying the quiet middle.
Rose Quartz sits between cream and a deep berry here, softened by a blush accent and grounded by charcoal.
How #EDCDDE 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 #EDCDDE at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #EDCDDE;
--color-base-rgb: 237 205 222;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(88.0% 0.042 344.7);
--color-50: #FBF3F8;
--color-100: #F5E0EB;
--color-200: #E9C3D7;
--color-300: #D699BA;
--color-400: #C0729C;
--color-500: #A4517D;
--color-600: #7E4463;
--color-700: #5A3449;
--color-800: #3C2531;
--color-900: #25181F;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
rose-quartz: {
50: '#FBF3F8',
100: '#F5E0EB',
200: '#E9C3D7',
300: '#D699BA',
400: '#C0729C',
500: '#A4517D',
600: '#7E4463',
700: '#5A3449',
800: '#3C2531',
900: '#25181F',
},
}
$base: #EDCDDE; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FBF3F8; $base-100: #F5E0EB; $base-200: #E9C3D7; $base-300: #D699BA; $base-400: #C0729C; $base-500: #A4517D; $base-600: #7E4463; $base-700: #5A3449; $base-800: #3C2531; $base-900: #25181F; $base-hover: #D68DB4; $base-subtle: #F9F2F5;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#EDCDDE",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF3F8",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F5E0EB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E9C3D7",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D699BA",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C0729C",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A4517D",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#7E4463",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5A3449",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3C2531",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#25181F",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}