#FAEAD4 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 #FAEAD4 works with other colors. Named schemes with #FAEAD4 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
This palette keeps Antique White as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Antique White 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.
Antique White holds the warm center of this desert palette with sand and clay beside it, a muted-sage accent and a dark-brown anchor.
Antique White opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Antique White 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 Antique White carrying the quiet middle.
How #FAEAD4 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 #FAEAD4 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #FAEAD4;
--color-base-rgb: 250 234 212;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(94.4% 0.034 76.0);
--color-50: #FEF8F1;
--color-100: #FCEDDA;
--color-200: #F6DCB6;
--color-300: #EBC085;
--color-400: #DAA458;
--color-500: #C08635;
--color-600: #926930;
--color-700: #674D28;
--color-800: #43341D;
--color-900: #292014;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
antique-white: {
50: '#FEF8F1',
100: '#FCEDDA',
200: '#F6DCB6',
300: '#EBC085',
400: '#DAA458',
500: '#C08635',
600: '#926930',
700: '#674D28',
800: '#43341D',
900: '#292014',
},
}
$base: #FAEAD4; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FEF8F1; $base-100: #FCEDDA; $base-200: #F6DCB6; $base-300: #EBC085; $base-400: #DAA458; $base-500: #C08635; $base-600: #926930; $base-700: #674D28; $base-800: #43341D; $base-900: #292014; $base-hover: #F0C383; $base-subtle: #FCF9F4;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#FAEAD4",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF8F1",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FCEDDA",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#F6DCB6",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#EBC085",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#DAA458",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#C08635",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#926930",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#674D28",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#43341D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#292014",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}