#FAD4E2 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 #FAD4E2 works with other colors. Named schemes with #FAD4E2 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 #FAD4E2 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 #FAD4E2 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #FAD4E2;
--color-base-rgb: 250 212 226;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(90.6% 0.046 353.9);
--color-50: #FEF1F6;
--color-100: #FCDAE6;
--color-200: #F6B6CE;
--color-300: #EB85AA;
--color-400: #DA5888;
--color-500: #C03568;
--color-600: #923054;
--color-700: #67283F;
--color-800: #431D2B;
--color-900: #29141C;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
pastel-pink: {
50: '#FEF1F6',
100: '#FCDAE6',
200: '#F6B6CE',
300: '#EB85AA',
400: '#DA5888',
500: '#C03568',
600: '#923054',
700: '#67283F',
800: '#431D2B',
900: '#29141C',
},
}
$base: #FAD4E2; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FEF1F6; $base-100: #FCDAE6; $base-200: #F6B6CE; $base-300: #EB85AA; $base-400: #DA5888; $base-500: #C03568; $base-600: #923054; $base-700: #67283F; $base-800: #431D2B; $base-900: #29141C; $base-hover: #F083AB; $base-subtle: #FCF4F7;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#FAD4E2",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF1F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FCDAE6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F6B6CE",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#EB85AA",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#DA5888",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#C03568",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#923054",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#67283F",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#431D2B",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#29141C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}