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Pink, Blue & Purple Color Palette — Frosted Glass

A cool, contemporary four-color scheme blending soft frost pink, icy periwinkle blue, and muted lilac purple with a clean greige base — every color matched to real paint you can buy.

By David Chen · Formulation Lead & Resident Chemist

Think of this scheme like light passing through frosted glass — everything is softened, cooled, and a little hazy. Frost Pink leads as the dominant tone, but it is a dusty, grey-tinted pink rather than anything sugary, which is what keeps it feeling current for 2026.

Periwinkle Blue is the cool counterweight, and Lilac Mist sits between the two as the natural bridge, since purple is simply pink and blue combined. That middle step is the trick that makes the trio read as one family instead of three separate ideas competing for attention.

To ground all that softness, Cool Greige spreads quietly across the largest surfaces as a neutral base, and a deep Slate Charcoal steps in for contrast on small details like trim, hardware, or a single piece of furniture. Lead with the pink, support with the blue, and let the lilac and charcoal do their work in smaller doses.

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Frost Pink
Dominant
Dunn-Edwards Desert Mauve · DE6016
#E8D2D6
LRV 63
Periwinkle Blue
Secondary
Dunn-Edwards Sapphire Fog · DE5899
#99A8C9
LRV 13
Lilac Mist
Accent
Valspar Fancy Pansy · 1001-4A
#B9A9C8
LRV 43
Cool Greige
Base
Dunn-Edwards Heirloom Shade · DEW395
#DCD8D4
LRV 63
Slate Charcoal
Support
Rodda Midnight · CA210
#393C46
LRV 5

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Each color matched to the closest real paint in every brand, by ΔE2000. Tap a swatch for its full guide or + to save it — take any SKU to the store, they mix on demand.

Frost Pink
#E8D2D7 · LRV 68 · Dominant
Sherwin-Williams · SW 6295 · ΔE 2.02
Behr · 230E-2 · ΔE 2.04
Benjamin Moore · 1374 · ΔE 2.1
Valspar · V078-1 · ΔE 0.57
PPG / Glidden · PPG1050-2 · ΔE 2.16
Glidden · 10RR 67/057 · ΔE 2.26
Dutch Boy · 203-1DB · ΔE 2.84
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 2027 · ΔE 2.02
Dunn-Edwards · DE6016 · ΔE 0.43
Magnolia Home · JG-132 · ΔE 11.85
Farrow & Ball · NO. 230 · ΔE 5.71
Diamond Vogel · 1217 · ΔE 3.19
Hirshfield's · 1217 · ΔE 3.2
Rodda · R121 · ΔE 8.53
C2 Paint · BD50 · ΔE 4.07
Clare · PNT100-LT-18 · ΔE 9.99
Portola Paints · GYPSY · ΔE 6.3
Annie Sloan · OLD OCHRE · ΔE 16.97
Backdrop · BD-CC · ΔE 16.62
Rust-Oleum · 285142 · ΔE 3.06
Kompozit · 1217 · ΔE 3.2
Periwinkle Blue
#9AA8CC · LRV 39 · Secondary
Sherwin-Williams · SW 6969 · ΔE 1.22
Behr · MQ5-17 · ΔE 2.63
Benjamin Moore · 830 · ΔE 5.26
Valspar · 4005-8A · ΔE 4.82
PPG / Glidden · 1166-4 · ΔE 2.5
Glidden · PPG1166-4 · ΔE 2.5
Dutch Boy · 141-4DB · ΔE 1.7
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 1385 · ΔE 7.13
Dunn-Edwards · DE5899 · ΔE 1.05
Magnolia Home · JG-89 · ΔE 12.39
Farrow & Ball · NO. 307 · ΔE 9.68
Diamond Vogel · 0596 · ΔE 3.1
Hirshfield's · 0596 · ΔE 4.15
Rodda · R087 · ΔE 10.37
C2 Paint · C2-767 · ΔE 5.38
Clare · PNT100-LT-38 · ΔE 12.91
Portola Paints · TWIN PEAKS · ΔE 11.99
Annie Sloan · LOUIS BLUE · ΔE 10.8
Backdrop · BD-UD · ΔE 13.09
Rust-Oleum · 371675 · ΔE 16.81
Kompozit · 0596 · ΔE 4.15
Lilac Mist
#B6A8C9 · LRV 42 · Accent
Sherwin-Williams · SW 9067 · ΔE 1.8
Behr · 690F-4 · ΔE 1.49
Benjamin Moore · 1404 · ΔE 2.28
Valspar · 1001-4A · ΔE 1.04
PPG / Glidden · PPG1248-5 · ΔE 3.94
Glidden · 30RB 40/150 · ΔE 2.12
Dutch Boy · 143-4DB · ΔE 2.14
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 1435 · ΔE 5.13
Dunn-Edwards · DE5983 · ΔE 5.14
Magnolia Home · JG-99 · ΔE 13.18
Farrow & Ball · NO. 89 · ΔE 17.79
Diamond Vogel · 1241 · ΔE 3.51
Hirshfield's · 1225 · ΔE 3.53
Rodda · R104 · ΔE 10.63
C2 Paint · C2-782 · ΔE 10.04
Clare · PNT100-MD-73 · ΔE 16.92
Portola Paints · MAGIC POTION · ΔE 10.45
Annie Sloan · PALOMA · ΔE 14.37
Backdrop · BD-UD · ΔE 18.52
Rust-Oleum · 285143 · ΔE 14.05
Kompozit · 1225 · ΔE 3.53
Cool Greige
#DCD8D3 · LRV 69 · Base
Sherwin-Williams · SW 7646 · ΔE 1.55
Behr · N180-2 · ΔE 0.58
Benjamin Moore · 1458 · ΔE 0.63
Valspar · 4003-1A · ΔE 1.55
PPG / Glidden · PPG1004-1 · ΔE 2.7
Glidden · PPG1004-1 · ΔE 2.15
Dutch Boy · 442-1DB · ΔE 1.18
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 1477 · ΔE 1.55
Dunn-Edwards · DEW395 · ΔE 0.52
Magnolia Home · JG-132 · ΔE 1.65
Farrow & Ball · NO. 274 · ΔE 1.75
Diamond Vogel · 0579 · ΔE 2.25
Hirshfield's · 0545 · ΔE 0.65
Rodda · CA028 · ΔE 1.76
C2 Paint · C2-995 · ΔE 4.4
Clare · PNT100-LT-07 · ΔE 2.61
Portola Paints · GYPSY · ΔE 4.1
Annie Sloan · OLD OCHRE · ΔE 11.22
Backdrop · BD-CC · ΔE 7.62
Rust-Oleum · 285142 · ΔE 8.35
Kompozit · 0545 · ΔE 0.65
Slate Charcoal
#3A3A44 · LRV 4 · Support
Sherwin-Williams · SW 9690 · ΔE 2.34
Behr · N550-7 · ΔE 2.8
Benjamin Moore · 2069-10 · ΔE 2.97
Valspar · 8004-1G · ΔE 2.55
PPG / Glidden · PPG0995-7 · ΔE 6.42
Glidden · 00NN 05/000 · ΔE 5.34
Dutch Boy · 445-7DB · ΔE 2.29
HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams · HGSW 6988 · ΔE 3.38
Dunn-Edwards · DEA002 · ΔE 6
Magnolia Home · JG-05 · ΔE 4.03
Farrow & Ball · NO. G18 · ΔE 6.16
Diamond Vogel · H101 · ΔE 5.73
Hirshfield's · 0522 · ΔE 2.57
Rodda · CA210 · ΔE 1.81
C2 Paint · BD49 · ΔE 3.88
Clare · PNT100-DP-54 · ΔE 8.48
Portola Paints · NOMAD · ΔE 4.14
Annie Sloan · AUBUSSON BLUE · ΔE 11.81
Backdrop · BD-AH · ΔE 10.06
Rust-Oleum · 285144 · ΔE 6.02
Kompozit · 0522 · ΔE 2.57

Questions

Why do pink, blue, and purple work together here?

Purple is literally pink and blue mixed, so a lilac in the middle acts as a bridge that ties the two ends together. Keeping all three soft and slightly grey-cooled stops them from reading as a nursery and lets them feel grown-up instead.

How do I balance these three colors in a space?

Let the pink lead on the big surfaces, use the blue on about a third of the room, and treat the lilac as a small accent. The greige and charcoal then keep everything calm and anchored.

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