#FDD4E5 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 #FDD4E5 works with other colors. Named schemes with #FDD4E5 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 #FDD4E5 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 #FDD4E5 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #FDD4E5;
--color-base-rgb: 253 212 229;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(90.9% 0.051 351.3);
--color-50: #FEF0F6;
--color-100: #FDD8E7;
--color-200: #FBB1D0;
--color-300: #F27DAE;
--color-400: #E44E8C;
--color-500: #CB2A6D;
--color-600: #9A2857;
--color-700: #6C2341;
--color-800: #461B2D;
--color-900: #2B121D;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
pastel-pink: {
50: '#FEF0F6',
100: '#FDD8E7',
200: '#FBB1D0',
300: '#F27DAE',
400: '#E44E8C',
500: '#CB2A6D',
600: '#9A2857',
700: '#6C2341',
800: '#461B2D',
900: '#2B121D',
},
}
$base: #FDD4E5; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FEF0F6; $base-100: #FDD8E7; $base-200: #FBB1D0; $base-300: #F27DAE; $base-400: #E44E8C; $base-500: #CB2A6D; $base-600: #9A2857; $base-700: #6C2341; $base-800: #461B2D; $base-900: #2B121D; $base-hover: #F97BAF; $base-subtle: #FDF3F7;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#FDD4E5",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF0F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FDD8E7",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#FBB1D0",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#F27DAE",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#E44E8C",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#CB2A6D",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#9A2857",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#6C2341",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#461B2D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#2B121D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}