Old Lace

Hex #FDF5E6, rgb(253 245 230). A white CSS named color.

Old Lace#FDF5E6

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About Old Lace

Old Lace is a very light near-white with the hex code #FDF5E6. In RGB it is made of 253 red, 245 green and 230 blue; in HSL its hue is 39°, with 85% saturation and 95% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 97.2%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "oldlace" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.08:1 and against black 19.38:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Old Lace 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 Old Lace

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 Old Lace with white and black. The readable text color on Old Lace is black.

Old Lace textSmall text on white

On white1.08:1

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

APCA Lc 0

Old Lace textSmall text on black

On black19.38:1

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

APCA Lc -102

Black text on Old Lace (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

Protanopia#F9F5E5
Deuteranopia#FBF7E6
Tritanopia#FFF2F1
Protanomaly#FAF5E5
Deuteranomaly#FBF6E6
Tritanomaly#FFF4EB
Achromatopsia#F6F6F6

Colors similar to Old Lace

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Old Lace in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.old-lace {
  color: oldlace; /* #FDF5E6 */
  background-color: rgb(253 245 230);
  border-color: oklch(97.2% 0.022 83.3);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-old-lace-500, text-old-lace-700... */
@theme {
  --color-old-lace-50: #FDF5E6;
  --color-old-lace-100: #F9E7C5;
  --color-old-lace-200: #F5D290;
  --color-old-lace-300: #EEB100;
  --color-old-lace-400: #C39000;
  --color-old-lace-500: #A77B00;
  --color-old-lace-600: #8F6900;
  --color-old-lace-700: #745400;
  --color-old-lace-800: #5D4300;
  --color-old-lace-900: #4C3600;
  --color-old-lace-950: #1F1400;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#FDF5E6] text-[#000000]">…</div>