Blanched Almond

Hex #FFEBCD, rgb(255 235 205). An orange CSS named color.

Blanched Almond#FFEBCD

Blanched Almond color codes

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About Blanched Almond

Blanched Almond is a very light muted orange with the hex code #FFEBCD. In RGB it is made of 255 red, 235 green and 205 blue; in HSL its hue is 36°, with 100% saturation and 90% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 94.8%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "blanchedalmond" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.17:1 and against black 18.02:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Blanched Almond 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 Blanched Almond

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 Blanched Almond with white and black. The readable text color on Blanched Almond is black.

Blanched Almond textSmall text on white

On white1.17:1

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

APCA Lc 8

Blanched Almond textSmall text on black

On black18.02:1

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

APCA Lc -96

Black text on Blanched Almond (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

Protanopia#F4EBCB
Deuteranopia#F9F0CE
Tritanopia#FFE5E3
Protanomaly#F7EBCC
Deuteranomaly#FAEECD
Tritanomaly#FFE9D7
Achromatopsia#EDEDED

Colors similar to Blanched Almond

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Blanched Almond in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.blanched-almond {
  color: blanchedalmond; /* #FFEBCD */
  background-color: rgb(255 235 205);
  border-color: oklch(94.8% 0.045 78.1);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-blanched-almond-500, text-blanched-almond-700... */
@theme {
  --color-blanched-almond-50: #FFF9F1;
  --color-blanched-almond-100: #FFEBCD;
  --color-blanched-almond-200: #FAD59C;
  --color-blanched-almond-300: #F6B231;
  --color-blanched-almond-400: #CC8F00;
  --color-blanched-almond-500: #B07A00;
  --color-blanched-almond-600: #976800;
  --color-blanched-almond-700: #795300;
  --color-blanched-almond-800: #624200;
  --color-blanched-almond-900: #503500;
  --color-blanched-almond-950: #201300;
}

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