Navajo White

Hex #FFDEAD, rgb(255 222 173). A white CSS named color.

Navajo White#FFDEAD

Navajo White color codes

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About Navajo White

Navajo White is a very light near-white with the hex code #FFDEAD. In RGB it is made of 255 red, 222 green and 173 blue; in HSL its hue is 36°, with 100% saturation and 84% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 91.6%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "navajowhite" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.29:1 and against black 16.30:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Navajo 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 Navajo 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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Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

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

Navajo White textSmall text on white

On white1.29:1

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

APCA Lc 14

Navajo White textSmall text on black

On black16.30:1

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

APCA Lc -90

Black text on Navajo White (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

Protanopia#ECDEAA
Deuteranopia#F4E6AE
Tritanopia#FFD5D1
Protanomaly#F1DFAB
Deuteranomaly#F6E4AE
Tritanomaly#FFDABF
Achromatopsia#E3E3E3

Colors similar to Navajo White

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Navajo White in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.navajo-white {
  color: navajowhite; /* #FFDEAD */
  background-color: rgb(255 222 173);
  border-color: oklch(91.6% 0.073 77.4);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-navajo-white-500, text-navajo-white-700... */
@theme {
  --color-navajo-white-50: #FFF9F1;
  --color-navajo-white-100: #FFDEAD;
  --color-navajo-white-200: #FFC76F;
  --color-navajo-white-300: #F1A800;
  --color-navajo-white-400: #C58800;
  --color-navajo-white-500: #A97500;
  --color-navajo-white-600: #916400;
  --color-navajo-white-700: #765000;
  --color-navajo-white-800: #5F4000;
  --color-navajo-white-900: #4E3400;
  --color-navajo-white-950: #211300;
}

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