#F2CBDA 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 #F2CBDA works with other colors. Named schemes with #F2CBDA 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 #F2CBDA 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 #F2CBDA at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #F2CBDA;
--color-base-rgb: 242 203 218;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(88.0% 0.048 353.0);
--color-50: #FCF2F6;
--color-100: #F8DEE8;
--color-200: #EFBED1;
--color-300: #DE91AF;
--color-400: #CB678D;
--color-500: #AF466E;
--color-600: #863C58;
--color-700: #602F42;
--color-800: #3F222D;
--color-900: #27161D;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
rose-quartz: {
50: '#FCF2F6',
100: '#F8DEE8',
200: '#EFBED1',
300: '#DE91AF',
400: '#CB678D',
500: '#AF466E',
600: '#863C58',
700: '#602F42',
800: '#3F222D',
900: '#27161D',
},
}
$base: #F2CBDA; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FCF2F6; $base-100: #F8DEE8; $base-200: #EFBED1; $base-300: #DE91AF; $base-400: #CB678D; $base-500: #AF466E; $base-600: #863C58; $base-700: #602F42; $base-800: #3F222D; $base-900: #27161D; $base-hover: #E083A7; $base-subtle: #FAF1F4;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#F2CBDA",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF2F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F8DEE8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EFBED1",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DE91AF",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#CB678D",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#AF466E",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#863C58",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#602F42",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3F222D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#27161D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}