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Alice Blue

Hex #F0F8FF, rgb(240 248 255). A white CSS named color.

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About Alice Blue

Alice Blue is a very light near-white with the hex code #F0F8FF. In RGB it is made of 240 red, 248 green and 255 blue; in HSL its hue is 208°, with 100% saturation and 97% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 97.5%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "aliceblue" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.07:1 and against black 19.58:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Alice Blue mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

Tints (with white)

Shades (with black)

Tones (with gray)

Alice Blue 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Alice Blue

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

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Square

Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Alice Blue with white and black. The readable text color on Alice Blue is black.

Alice Blue textSmall text on white

On white1.07:1

  • AA fail
  • AA Large fail
  • AAA fail
  • UI 3:1 fail

APCA Lc 0

Alice Blue textSmall text on black

On black19.58:1

  • AA pass
  • AA Large pass
  • AAA pass
  • UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -103

Black text on Alice Blue (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Alice Blue appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

  • Protanopia#F5F8FF
  • Deuteranopia#F3F6FF
  • Tritanopia#EDFAFA
  • Protanomaly#F4F8FF
  • Deuteranomaly#F3F7FF
  • Tritanomaly#EFF9FD
  • Achromatopsia#F7F7F7

Colors similar to Alice Blue

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Alice Blue in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.alice-blue {
  color: aliceblue; /* #F0F8FF */
  background-color: rgb(240 248 255);
  border-color: oklch(97.5% 0.013 244.3);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-alice-blue-500, text-alice-blue-700... */
@theme {
  --color-alice-blue-50: #F0F8FF;
  --color-alice-blue-100: #DBEDFD;
  --color-alice-blue-200: #BBDDFA;
  --color-alice-blue-300: #84C4F9;
  --color-alice-blue-400: #2DA1F1;
  --color-alice-blue-500: #008AD7;
  --color-alice-blue-600: #0076B9;
  --color-alice-blue-700: #005F96;
  --color-alice-blue-800: #004C7A;
  --color-alice-blue-900: #003E64;
  --color-alice-blue-950: #00182B;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#F0F8FF] text-[#000000]">…</div>