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Lemon Chiffon

Hex #FFFACD, rgb(255 250 205). A yellow CSS named color.

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About Lemon Chiffon

Lemon Chiffon is a very light muted yellow with the hex code #FFFACD. In RGB it is made of 255 red, 250 green and 205 blue; in HSL its hue is 54°, with 100% saturation and 90% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 97.8%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "lemonchiffon" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.06:1 and against black 19.81:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

Tints (with white)

Shades (with black)

Tones (with gray)

Lemon Chiffon 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 Lemon Chiffon

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

Complementary

Analogous

Triadic

Split complementary

Tetradic

Square

Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

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

Lemon Chiffon textSmall text on white

On white1.06:1

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

APCA Lc 0

Lemon Chiffon textSmall text on black

On black19.81:1

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

APCA Lc -103

Black text on Lemon Chiffon (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

  • Protanopia#FFF7CA
  • Deuteranopia#FFFACF
  • Tritanopia#FFF4EE
  • Protanomaly#FFF8CB
  • Deuteranomaly#FFF9CE
  • Tritanomaly#FFF7DD
  • Achromatopsia#F8F8F8

Colors similar to Lemon Chiffon

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Lemon Chiffon in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.lemon-chiffon {
  color: lemonchiffon; /* #FFFACD */
  background-color: rgb(255 250 205);
  border-color: oklch(97.8% 0.058 102.2);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-lemon-chiffon-500, text-lemon-chiffon-700... */
@theme {
  --color-lemon-chiffon-50: #FFFACD;
  --color-lemon-chiffon-100: #FDEF80;
  --color-lemon-chiffon-200: #F2DC00;
  --color-lemon-chiffon-300: #D4C000;
  --color-lemon-chiffon-400: #AC9C00;
  --color-lemon-chiffon-500: #948600;
  --color-lemon-chiffon-600: #7F7300;
  --color-lemon-chiffon-700: #665C00;
  --color-lemon-chiffon-800: #524A00;
  --color-lemon-chiffon-900: #423C00;
  --color-lemon-chiffon-950: #1A1600;
}

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