Pale#FFF9D0

#FFF9D0 is a very light, muted yellow. Relative luminance 0.936; OKLCH L 97.7% C 0.053 H 100.4°. Best body text is #000000 at 19.71:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Pale — editorial page

Color values

HEX	#FFF9D0
RGB	rgb(255, 249, 208)
HSL	hsl(52, 100%, 91%)
HSV	hsv(52, 18%, 100%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 2.4%, 18.4%, 0%)
CIE-LAB	lab(97.46, -4.50, 20.44)
CIE-LCH	lch(97.46, 20.93, 102.41°)
OKLab	oklab(97.65% -0.0097 0.0525)
OKLCH	oklch(97.65% 0.053 100.4)
XYZ	xyz(86.5003, 93.5666, 73.1656)
Luminance	0.9356 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#FFF9D0 #D0D6FF

analogous

#FFE1D0 #FFF9D0 #EDFFD0

triadic

#FFF9D0 #D0FFF9 #F9D0FF

tetradic

#FFF9D0 #D0FFE1 #D0D6FF #FFD0ED

square

#FFF9D0 #D0FFE1 #D0D6FF #FFD0ED

split-complementary

#FFF9D0 #D0EDFF #E1D0FF

monochromatic

#FFE956 #FFF193 #FFF9D0 #FFFBE0 #FFFBE0

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.07

#FFF9D0 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

19.71

#FFF9D0 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #FFF9D0

19.71:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##FFF9D0	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##FFF9D0	1.00	1.07	19.71	19.71
#FFFFFF	1.07	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	19.71	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	19.71	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#FFF6CE

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FFF9D1

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FFF3EE

Achromatopsia (no color)

#F8F8F8

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #fff9d0;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(255, 249, 208);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(97.7% 0.053 100.4);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#fffbde',
    500: '#fff9d0',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #fff9d0;
$custom-light: #fffbde;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#fff9d0",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 255,
    "g": 249,
    "b": 208
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 52.34,
    "s": 100,
    "l": 90.784
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.9765,
    "c": 0.05336,
    "h": 100.4
  },
  "luminance": 0.93565
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#FFF9D0

secondary

#8995EA

accent

#1DE600

background

#FFFFFE

surface

#FFFFFC

border

#D7D7D5

text

#181715

muted

#868584

Preview Lab

Preview with #FFF9D0

Body copy rendered with the generated semantic roles for this colour.

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