#FDDAEB is a muted, temperate rose. 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 #FDDAEB works with other colors. Named schemes with #FDDAEB 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 #FDDAEB 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 #FDDAEB at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #FDDAEB;
--color-base-rgb: 253 218 235;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(92.2% 0.044 347.1);
--color-50: #FEF0F7;
--color-100: #FDD8EA;
--color-200: #FBB2D5;
--color-300: #F27EB6;
--color-400: #E34F97;
--color-500: #CA2B78;
--color-600: #99295F;
--color-700: #6C2346;
--color-800: #461B30;
--color-900: #2B121E;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
pastel-pink: {
50: '#FEF0F7',
100: '#FDD8EA',
200: '#FBB2D5',
300: '#F27EB6',
400: '#E34F97',
500: '#CA2B78',
600: '#99295F',
700: '#6C2346',
800: '#461B30',
900: '#2B121E',
},
}
$base: #FDDAEB; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FEF0F7; $base-100: #FDD8EA; $base-200: #FBB2D5; $base-300: #F27EB6; $base-400: #E34F97; $base-500: #CA2B78; $base-600: #99295F; $base-700: #6C2346; $base-800: #461B30; $base-900: #2B121E; $base-hover: #F87FBA; $base-subtle: #FDF5F9;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#FDDAEB",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF0F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FDD8EA",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#FBB2D5",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#F27EB6",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#E34F97",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#CA2B78",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#99295F",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#6C2346",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#461B30",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#2B121E",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}