#EEA6BD is a soft, warm red. On the Color Lab it reads with a faded, vintage edge. It is too pale to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #EEA6BD works with other colors. Named schemes with #EEA6BD 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 #EEA6BD 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 #EEA6BD at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #EEA6BD;
--color-base-rgb: 238 166 189;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(80.1% 0.089 358.5);
--color-50: #FDF2F5;
--color-100: #F9DCE5;
--color-200: #F2BBCC;
--color-300: #E38CA8;
--color-400: #D16184;
--color-500: #B63F64;
--color-600: #8B3751;
--color-700: #632C3D;
--color-800: #41202A;
--color-900: #28151B;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
carnation: {
50: '#FDF2F5',
100: '#F9DCE5',
200: '#F2BBCC',
300: '#E38CA8',
400: '#D16184',
500: '#B63F64',
600: '#8B3751',
700: '#632C3D',
800: '#41202A',
900: '#28151B',
},
}
$base: #EEA6BD; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FDF2F5; $base-100: #F9DCE5; $base-200: #F2BBCC; $base-300: #E38CA8; $base-400: #D16184; $base-500: #B63F64; $base-600: #8B3751; $base-700: #632C3D; $base-800: #41202A; $base-900: #28151B; $base-hover: #E1618A; $base-subtle: #F7E7EC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#EEA6BD",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FDF2F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F9DCE5",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F2BBCC",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#E38CA8",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#D16184",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#B63F64",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#8B3751",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#632C3D",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#41202A",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#28151B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}