#FFDAE8 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 #FFDAE8 works with other colors. Named schemes with #FFDAE8 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 #FFDAE8 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 #FFDAE8 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #FFDAE8;
--color-base-rgb: 255 218 232;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(92.3% 0.045 353.2);
--color-50: #FEF0F6;
--color-100: #FDD8E6;
--color-200: #FCB1CD;
--color-300: #F877A9;
--color-400: #EC4686;
--color-500: #D22266;
--color-600: #9F2352;
--color-700: #701F3E;
--color-800: #48182B;
--color-900: #2C111B;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
pastel-pink: {
50: '#FEF0F6',
100: '#FDD8E6',
200: '#FCB1CD',
300: '#F877A9',
400: '#EC4686',
500: '#D22266',
600: '#9F2352',
700: '#701F3E',
800: '#48182B',
900: '#2C111B',
},
}
$base: #FFDAE8; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #FEF0F6; $base-100: #FDD8E6; $base-200: #FCB1CD; $base-300: #F877A9; $base-400: #EC4686; $base-500: #D22266; $base-600: #9F2352; $base-700: #701F3E; $base-800: #48182B; $base-900: #2C111B; $base-hover: #FF7CAE; $base-subtle: #FEF6F9;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#FFDAE8",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#FEF0F6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#FDD8E6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#FCB1CD",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#F877A9",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#EC4686",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#D22266",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#9F2352",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#701F3E",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#48182B",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#2C111B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}