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Papaya Whip

Hex #FFEFD5, rgb(255 239 213). An orange CSS named color.

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About Papaya Whip

Papaya Whip is a very light muted orange with the hex code #FFEFD5. In RGB it is made of 255 red, 239 green and 213 blue; in HSL its hue is 37°, with 100% saturation and 92% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 95.8%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "papayawhip" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.13:1 and against black 18.56:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Papaya Whip 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 Papaya Whip

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 Papaya Whip with white and black. The readable text color on Papaya Whip is black.

Papaya Whip textSmall text on white

On white1.13:1

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

APCA Lc 0

Papaya Whip textSmall text on black

On black18.56:1

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

APCA Lc -99

Black text on Papaya Whip (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

  • Protanopia#F6EFD3
  • Deuteranopia#FAF3D6
  • Tritanopia#FFEAE8
  • Protanomaly#F9EFD4
  • Deuteranomaly#FBF1D5
  • Tritanomaly#FFEDDE
  • Achromatopsia#F1F1F1

Colors similar to Papaya Whip

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Papaya Whip in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.papaya-whip {
  color: papayawhip; /* #FFEFD5 */
  background-color: rgb(255 239 213);
  border-color: oklch(95.8% 0.038 80);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-papaya-whip-500, text-papaya-whip-700... */
@theme {
  --color-papaya-whip-50: #FFEFD5;
  --color-papaya-whip-100: #FFE0AE;
  --color-papaya-whip-200: #FFCA6B;
  --color-papaya-whip-300: #EFAB00;
  --color-papaya-whip-400: #C38B00;
  --color-papaya-whip-500: #A87700;
  --color-papaya-whip-600: #906600;
  --color-papaya-whip-700: #745200;
  --color-papaya-whip-800: #5E4100;
  --color-papaya-whip-900: #4D3500;
  --color-papaya-whip-950: #201300;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#FFEFD5] text-[#000000]">…</div>