#F9CCDB is a soft, warm 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 #F9CCDB works with other colors. Named schemes with #F9CCDB 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 #F9CCDB 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 #F9CCDB at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #F9CCDB;
--color-base-rgb: 249 204 219;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(88.8% 0.054 356.3);
--color-50: #FEF1F5;
--color-100: #FCDAE5;
--color-200: #F6B6CB;
--color-300: #EB85A7;
--color-400: #DA5883;
--color-500: #C03563;
--color-600: #923051;
--color-700: #67283D;
--color-800: #431D2A;
--color-900: #29141B;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
pastel-pink: {
50: '#FEF1F5',
100: '#FCDAE5',
200: '#F6B6CB',
300: '#EB85A7',
400: '#DA5883',
500: '#C03563',
600: '#923051',
700: '#67283D',
800: '#431D2A',
900: '#29141B',
},
}
$base: #F9CCDB; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FEF1F5; $base-100: #FCDAE5; $base-200: #F6B6CB; $base-300: #EB85A7; $base-400: #DA5883; $base-500: #C03563; $base-600: #923051; $base-700: #67283D; $base-800: #431D2A; $base-900: #29141B; $base-hover: #F07CA2; $base-subtle: #FCF2F5;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#F9CCDB",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF1F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FCDAE5",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F6B6CB",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#EB85A7",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#DA5883",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#C03563",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#923051",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#67283D",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#431D2A",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#29141B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}