#FDD0DC 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 #FDD0DC works with other colors. Named schemes with #FDD0DC 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 #FDD0DC 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 #FDD0DC at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #FDD0DC;
--color-base-rgb: 253 208 220;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(90.0% 0.053 0.4);
--color-50: #FEF0F4;
--color-100: #FDD8E2;
--color-200: #FCB1C5;
--color-300: #F37C9C;
--color-400: #E54D75;
--color-500: #CB2955;
--color-600: #9A2846;
--color-700: #6D2236;
--color-800: #471A26;
--color-900: #2B1219;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
pastel-pink: {
50: '#FEF0F4',
100: '#FDD8E2',
200: '#FCB1C5',
300: '#F37C9C',
400: '#E54D75',
500: '#CB2955',
600: '#9A2846',
700: '#6D2236',
800: '#471A26',
900: '#2B1219',
},
}
$base: #FDD0DC; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FEF0F4; $base-100: #FDD8E2; $base-200: #FCB1C5; $base-300: #F37C9C; $base-400: #E54D75; $base-500: #CB2955; $base-600: #9A2846; $base-700: #6D2236; $base-800: #471A26; $base-900: #2B1219; $base-hover: #F97699; $base-subtle: #FDF2F5;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#FDD0DC",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF0F4",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FDD8E2",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#FCB1C5",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#F37C9C",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#E54D75",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#CB2955",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#9A2846",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#6D2236",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#471A26",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#2B1219",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}