#EFBBD5 is a soft, temperate rose. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered. It holds up as a large surface and is too pale to lead as a primary accent.
Not just a swatch — here's how #EFBBD5 works with other colors. Named schemes with #EFBBD5 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Cherry Blossom 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 Cherry Blossom as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Cherry Blossom 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.
Cherry Blossom opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Cherry Blossom 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 Cherry Blossom carrying the quiet middle.
How #EFBBD5 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 #EFBBD5 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #EFBBD5;
--color-base-rgb: 239 187 213;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(84.6% 0.068 347.1);
--color-50: #FDF2F7;
--color-100: #F8DDEB;
--color-200: #EFBDD6;
--color-300: #E090B8;
--color-400: #CC6699;
--color-500: #B1447A;
--color-600: #873A61;
--color-700: #602E47;
--color-800: #3F2230;
--color-900: #27161F;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
cherry-blossom: {
50: '#FDF2F7',
100: '#F8DDEB',
200: '#EFBDD6',
300: '#E090B8',
400: '#CC6699',
500: '#B1447A',
600: '#873A61',
700: '#602E47',
800: '#3F2230',
900: '#27161F',
},
}
$base: #EFBBD5; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FDF2F7; $base-100: #F8DDEB; $base-200: #EFBDD6; $base-300: #E090B8; $base-400: #CC6699; $base-500: #B1447A; $base-600: #873A61; $base-700: #602E47; $base-800: #3F2230; $base-900: #27161F; $base-hover: #DF78AB; $base-subtle: #F9EDF3;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#EFBBD5",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FDF2F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F8DDEB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EFBDD6",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#E090B8",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#CC6699",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#B1447A",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#873A61",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#602E47",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3F2230",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#27161F",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}