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Antique White

Hex #FAEBD7, rgb(250 235 215). A white CSS named color.

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About Antique White

Antique White is a very light near-white with the hex code #FAEBD7. In RGB it is made of 250 red, 235 green and 215 blue; in HSL its hue is 34°, with 78% saturation and 91% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 94.7%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "antiquewhite" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.17:1 and against black 17.93:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Antique White mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

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Antique White 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 Antique White

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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Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Antique White with white and black. The readable text color on Antique White is black.

Antique White textSmall text on white

On white1.17:1

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

APCA Lc 8

Antique White textSmall text on black

On black17.93:1

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

APCA Lc -96

Black text on Antique White (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

  • Protanopia#F1EBD6
  • Deuteranopia#F5EED7
  • Tritanopia#FFE7E5
  • Protanomaly#F4EBD6
  • Deuteranomaly#F6EDD7
  • Tritanomaly#FDE9DE
  • Achromatopsia#EDEDED

Colors similar to Antique White

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Antique White in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.antique-white {
  color: antiquewhite; /* #FAEBD7 */
  background-color: rgb(250 235 215);
  border-color: oklch(94.7% 0.031 75.2);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-antique-white-500, text-antique-white-700... */
@theme {
  --color-antique-white-50: #FFF9F1;
  --color-antique-white-100: #FAEBD7;
  --color-antique-white-200: #F2D6B1;
  --color-antique-white-300: #E8B66E;
  --color-antique-white-400: #CF8C00;
  --color-antique-white-500: #B27800;
  --color-antique-white-600: #996600;
  --color-antique-white-700: #7B5200;
  --color-antique-white-800: #634100;
  --color-antique-white-900: #513400;
  --color-antique-white-950: #211300;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#FAEBD7] text-[#000000]">…</div>