#EFBDD0 is a soft, warm red. 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 #EFBDD0 works with other colors. Named schemes with #EFBDD0 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Pink 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 Pink as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Pink 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.
Pink opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Pink 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 Pink carrying the quiet middle.
How #EFBDD0 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 #EFBDD0 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #EFBDD0;
--color-base-rgb: 239 189 208;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(84.8% 0.062 353.8);
--color-50: #FCF2F6;
--color-100: #F8DDE8;
--color-200: #EFBDD0;
--color-300: #DF90AE;
--color-400: #CB678D;
--color-500: #B0456E;
--color-600: #873B58;
--color-700: #602F42;
--color-800: #3F222D;
--color-900: #27161D;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
pink: {
50: '#FCF2F6',
100: '#F8DDE8',
200: '#EFBDD0',
300: '#DF90AE',
400: '#CB678D',
500: '#B0456E',
600: '#873B58',
700: '#602F42',
800: '#3F222D',
900: '#27161D',
},
}
$base: #EFBDD0; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FCF2F6; $base-100: #F8DDE8; $base-200: #EFBDD0; $base-300: #DF90AE; $base-400: #CB678D; $base-500: #B0456E; $base-600: #873B58; $base-700: #602F42; $base-800: #3F222D; $base-900: #27161D; $base-hover: #DE789F; $base-subtle: #F8EDF1;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#EFBDD0",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF2F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F8DDE8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EFBDD0",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DF90AE",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#CB678D",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#B0456E",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#873B58",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#602F42",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3F222D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#27161D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}