#EFC8D7 is a muted, temperate red. 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 #EFC8D7 works with other colors. Named schemes with #EFC8D7 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.
This palette keeps Rose Quartz as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Rose Quartz 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.
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 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.
How #EFC8D7 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 #EFC8D7 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #EFC8D7;
--color-base-rgb: 239 200 215;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(87.0% 0.048 353.0);
--color-50: #FCF3F6;
--color-100: #F6DFE8;
--color-200: #EDC0D1;
--color-300: #DB94AF;
--color-400: #C76B8E;
--color-500: #AB4A6F;
--color-600: #833F59;
--color-700: #5E3142;
--color-800: #3E232D;
--color-900: #26171D;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
rose-quartz: {
50: '#FCF3F6',
100: '#F6DFE8',
200: '#EDC0D1',
300: '#DB94AF',
400: '#C76B8E',
500: '#AB4A6F',
600: '#833F59',
700: '#5E3142',
800: '#3E232D',
900: '#26171D',
},
}
$base: #EFC8D7; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FCF3F6; $base-100: #F6DFE8; $base-200: #EDC0D1; $base-300: #DB94AF; $base-400: #C76B8E; $base-500: #AB4A6F; $base-600: #833F59; $base-700: #5E3142; $base-800: #3E232D; $base-900: #26171D; $base-hover: #DB84A5; $base-subtle: #F9F0F3;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#EFC8D7",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF3F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F6DFE8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EDC0D1",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DB94AF",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C76B8E",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#AB4A6F",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#833F59",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5E3142",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3E232D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#26171D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}