#F5CFDB 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 #F5CFDB works with other colors. Named schemes with #F5CFDB in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Pastel Pink 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 Pastel Pink as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Pastel Pink 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.
Pastel Pink opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Pastel Pink 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 Pastel Pink carrying the quiet middle.
How #F5CFDB 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 #F5CFDB at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #F5CFDB;
--color-base-rgb: 245 207 219;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(89.0% 0.045 357.1);
--color-50: #FDF2F5;
--color-100: #F9DCE5;
--color-200: #F1BBCC;
--color-300: #E28DA8;
--color-400: #D06285;
--color-500: #B54065;
--color-600: #8A3852;
--color-700: #622D3E;
--color-800: #40212B;
--color-900: #28161B;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
pastel-pink: {
50: '#FDF2F5',
100: '#F9DCE5',
200: '#F1BBCC',
300: '#E28DA8',
400: '#D06285',
500: '#B54065',
600: '#8A3852',
700: '#622D3E',
800: '#40212B',
900: '#28161B',
},
}
$base: #F5CFDB; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FDF2F5; $base-100: #F9DCE5; $base-200: #F1BBCC; $base-300: #E28DA8; $base-400: #D06285; $base-500: #B54065; $base-600: #8A3852; $base-700: #622D3E; $base-800: #40212B; $base-900: #28161B; $base-hover: #E685A4; $base-subtle: #FBF2F5;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#F5CFDB",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FDF2F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F9DCE5",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F1BBCC",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#E28DA8",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#D06285",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#B54065",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#8A3852",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#622D3E",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#40212B",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#28161B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}