Beige

Hex #F5F5DC, rgb(245 245 220). A yellow CSS named color.

Beige#F5F5DC

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About Beige

Beige is a very light muted yellow with the hex code #F5F5DC. In RGB it is made of 245 red, 245 green and 220 blue; in HSL its hue is 60°, with 56% saturation and 91% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 96.4%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "beige" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.11:1 and against black 18.98:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Beige 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 Beige

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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Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

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

Beige textSmall text on white

On white1.11:1

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

APCA Lc 0

Beige textSmall text on black

On black18.98:1

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

APCA Lc -100

Black text on Beige (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

Protanopia#FAF3DB
Deuteranopia#FAF4DD
Tritanopia#F9F2EE
Protanomaly#F9F3DB
Deuteranomaly#F9F4DD
Tritanomaly#F6F4E4
Achromatopsia#F3F3F3

Colors similar to Beige

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Beige in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.beige {
  color: beige; /* #F5F5DC */
  background-color: rgb(245 245 220);
  border-color: oklch(96.4% 0.033 107);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-beige-500, text-beige-700... */
@theme {
  --color-beige-50: #F5F5DC;
  --color-beige-100: #ECEBB1;
  --color-beige-200: #DFDB64;
  --color-beige-300: #C7C000;
  --color-beige-400: #A29D00;
  --color-beige-500: #8B8600;
  --color-beige-600: #777300;
  --color-beige-700: #605C00;
  --color-beige-800: #4D4A00;
  --color-beige-900: #3F3C00;
  --color-beige-950: #181700;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#F5F5DC] text-[#000000]">…</div>