#EFE4D0 is a pale, temperate off-white. On the Color Lab it reads 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 #EFE4D0 works with other colors. Named schemes with #EFE4D0 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Champagne 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 Champagne as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Champagne 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.
Champagne opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Champagne 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 Champagne carrying the quiet middle.
How #EFE4D0 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 #EFE4D0 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #EFE4D0;
--color-base-rgb: 239 228 208;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(92.2% 0.029 82.6);
--color-50: #FBF9F3;
--color-100: #F5EEE0;
--color-200: #EADCC2;
--color-300: #D7C198;
--color-400: #C2A570;
--color-500: #A6874F;
--color-600: #7F6A42;
--color-700: #5B4D34;
--color-800: #3C3425;
--color-900: #252118;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
champagne: {
50: '#FBF9F3',
100: '#F5EEE0',
200: '#EADCC2',
300: '#D7C198',
400: '#C2A570',
500: '#A6874F',
600: '#7F6A42',
700: '#5B4D34',
800: '#3C3425',
900: '#252118',
},
}
$base: #EFE4D0; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FBF9F3; $base-100: #F5EEE0; $base-200: #EADCC2; $base-300: #D7C198; $base-400: #C2A570; $base-500: #A6874F; $base-600: #7F6A42; $base-700: #5B4D34; $base-800: #3C3425; $base-900: #252118; $base-hover: #D9BF8F; $base-subtle: #F9F7F2;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#EFE4D0",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FBF9F3",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F5EEE0",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EADCC2",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#D7C198",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C2A570",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#A6874F",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#7F6A42",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5B4D34",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3C3425",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#252118",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}