#EFCEDB 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 #EFCEDB works with other colors. Named schemes with #EFCEDB 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 #EFCEDB 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 #EFCEDB at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #EFCEDB;
--color-base-rgb: 239 206 219;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(88.3% 0.041 352.2);
--color-50: #FCF3F6;
--color-100: #F6E0E8;
--color-200: #EBC1D2;
--color-300: #D997B1;
--color-400: #C36F91;
--color-500: #A74E71;
--color-600: #81415B;
--color-700: #5C3343;
--color-800: #3D242E;
--color-900: #26181D;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
rose-quartz: {
50: '#FCF3F6',
100: '#F6E0E8',
200: '#EBC1D2',
300: '#D997B1',
400: '#C36F91',
500: '#A74E71',
600: '#81415B',
700: '#5C3343',
800: '#3D242E',
900: '#26181D',
},
}
$base: #EFCEDB; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FCF3F6; $base-100: #F6E0E8; $base-200: #EBC1D2; $base-300: #D997B1; $base-400: #C36F91; $base-500: #A74E71; $base-600: #81415B; $base-700: #5C3343; $base-800: #3D242E; $base-900: #26181D; $base-hover: #D98AAA; $base-subtle: #F9F1F4;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#EFCEDB",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF3F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F6E0E8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EBC1D2",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D997B1",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C36F91",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A74E71",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#81415B",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5C3343",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3D242E",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#26181D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}