#FDDAE4 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 #FDDAE4 works with other colors. Named schemes with #FDDAE4 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 #FDDAE4 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 #FDDAE4 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #FDDAE4;
--color-base-rgb: 253 218 228;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(92.0% 0.041 358.8);
--color-50: #FEF0F4;
--color-100: #FDD8E2;
--color-200: #FBB2C6;
--color-300: #F27E9E;
--color-400: #E34F79;
--color-500: #CA2B58;
--color-600: #992949;
--color-700: #6C2338;
--color-800: #461B27;
--color-900: #2B1219;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
pastel-pink: {
50: '#FEF0F4',
100: '#FDD8E2',
200: '#FBB2C6',
300: '#F27E9E',
400: '#E34F79',
500: '#CA2B58',
600: '#992949',
700: '#6C2338',
800: '#461B27',
900: '#2B1219',
},
}
$base: #FDDAE4; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FEF0F4; $base-100: #FDD8E2; $base-200: #FBB2C6; $base-300: #F27E9E; $base-400: #E34F79; $base-500: #CA2B58; $base-600: #992949; $base-700: #6C2338; $base-800: #461B27; $base-900: #2B1219; $base-hover: #F87FA1; $base-subtle: #FDF5F7;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#FDDAE4",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF0F4",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FDD8E2",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#FBB2C6",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#F27E9E",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#E34F79",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#CA2B58",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#992949",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#6C2338",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#461B27",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#2B1219",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}