#FAEAFD is a pale, temperate off-white. 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 #FAEAFD works with other colors. Named schemes with #FAEAFD in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Lavender Blush 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.
Lavender Blush opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Lavender Blush keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Lavender Blush 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 Lavender Blush carrying the quiet middle.
Lavender Blush sits between cream and a deep berry here, softened by a blush accent and grounded by charcoal.
How #FAEAFD 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 #FAEAFD at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #FAEAFD;
--color-base-rgb: 250 234 253;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(95.5% 0.030 320.9);
--color-50: #FCF0FE;
--color-100: #F7D9FD;
--color-200: #EEB4F8;
--color-300: #DD82ED;
--color-400: #C954DE;
--color-500: #AE31C3;
--color-600: #852D95;
--color-700: #5F2669;
--color-800: #3E1C44;
--color-900: #26132A;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
lavender-blush: {
50: '#FCF0FE',
100: '#F7D9FD',
200: '#EEB4F8',
300: '#DD82ED',
400: '#C954DE',
500: '#AE31C3',
600: '#852D95',
700: '#5F2669',
800: '#3E1C44',
900: '#26132A',
},
}
$base: #FAEAFD; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FCF0FE; $base-100: #F7D9FD; $base-200: #EEB4F8; $base-300: #DD82ED; $base-400: #C954DE; $base-500: #AE31C3; $base-600: #852D95; $base-700: #5F2669; $base-800: #3E1C44; $base-900: #26132A; $base-hover: #E58FF5; $base-subtle: #FDF9FE;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#FAEAFD",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FCF0FE",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F7D9FD",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#EEB4F8",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#DD82ED",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#C954DE",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#AE31C3",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#852D95",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#5F2669",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#3E1C44",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#26132A",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}