#F4EBCC 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 #F4EBCC works with other colors. Named schemes with #F4EBCC in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
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 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.
Champagne holds the warm center of this desert palette with sand and clay beside it, a muted-sage accent and a dark-brown anchor.
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 #F4EBCC 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 #F4EBCC at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #F4EBCC;
--color-base-rgb: 244 235 204;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(93.9% 0.042 93.7);
--color-50: #FDFAF2;
--color-100: #F9F3DD;
--color-200: #F1E5BC;
--color-300: #E2CF8E;
--color-400: #CFB763;
--color-500: #B49B41;
--color-600: #897838;
--color-700: #62562D;
--color-800: #403921;
--color-900: #272416;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
champagne: {
50: '#FDFAF2',
100: '#F9F3DD',
200: '#F1E5BC',
300: '#E2CF8E',
400: '#CFB763',
500: '#B49B41',
600: '#897838',
700: '#62562D',
800: '#403921',
900: '#272416',
},
}
$base: #F4EBCC; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FDFAF2; $base-100: #F9F3DD; $base-200: #F1E5BC; $base-300: #E2CF8E; $base-400: #CFB763; $base-500: #B49B41; $base-600: #897838; $base-700: #62562D; $base-800: #403921; $base-900: #272416; $base-hover: #E5CF82; $base-subtle: #FAF8F1;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#F4EBCC",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FDFAF2",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F9F3DD",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F1E5BC",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#E2CF8E",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#CFB763",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#B49B41",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#897838",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#62562D",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#403921",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#272416",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}