#F9CEDA is a muted, 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 #F9CEDA works with other colors. Named schemes with #F9CEDA 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 #F9CEDA 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 #F9CEDA at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #F9CEDA;
--color-base-rgb: 249 206 218;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(89.2% 0.051 359.6);
--color-50: #FEF1F5;
--color-100: #FBDAE3;
--color-200: #F6B6C8;
--color-300: #EA85A2;
--color-400: #DA587D;
--color-500: #BF365D;
--color-600: #91304C;
--color-700: #67283A;
--color-800: #431E28;
--color-900: #29141A;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
pastel-pink: {
50: '#FEF1F5',
100: '#FBDAE3',
200: '#F6B6C8',
300: '#EA85A2',
400: '#DA587D',
500: '#BF365D',
600: '#91304C',
700: '#67283A',
800: '#431E28',
900: '#29141A',
},
}
$base: #F9CEDA; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FEF1F5; $base-100: #FBDAE3; $base-200: #F6B6C8; $base-300: #EA85A2; $base-400: #DA587D; $base-500: #BF365D; $base-600: #91304C; $base-700: #67283A; $base-800: #431E28; $base-900: #29141A; $base-hover: #EF7C9D; $base-subtle: #FCF2F4;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#F9CEDA",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF1F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FBDAE3",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F6B6C8",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#EA85A2",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#DA587D",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#BF365D",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#91304C",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#67283A",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#431E28",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#29141A",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}