A pale beige, black text passes AA
What color is antiquewhite?
antiquewhite is a pale beige: #faebd7 in hex, rgb(250 235 215). Black text on it reaches 17.93:1, passing WCAG AAA. Recolor (recolor.page) shows it on a real page below.
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| Format | Value |
|---|---|
| Keyword | antiquewhite |
| Hex | #faebd7 |
| RGB | rgb(250 235 215) |
| HSL | hsl(34 78% 91%) |
| OKLCH | oklch(94.7% 0.031 75.2) |
| Nearest Tailwind color | orange-100 #ffedd4, 0.010 away in OKLab |
| White text | 1.17:1: AA fails, AAA fails, large text fails |
| Black text | 17.93:1: AA passes, AAA passes, large text passes |
About antiquewhite
A pale beige is the plain description of antiquewhite: OKLCH lightness 94.7%, chroma 0.031, hue 75.2 degrees.
HSL and OKLCH agree on how light it is, 91% and 94.7%. Its nearest CSS named color, papayawhip (#ffefd5), is 0.014 away in OKLab, too close to tell apart by eye.
Black text on antiquewhite measures 17.93:1, past the 7:1 of WCAG AAA, while white text manages only 1.17:1. In the hue-sorted table of named colors it sits between blanchedalmond and bisque.
In Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 the nearest default color is orange-100 (#ffedd4), 0.010 away in OKLab; for the exact color, an arbitrary value such as bg-[#faebd7] works.
Tints and shades
- #fefcf8
- #fdf8f2
- #fdf5eb
- #fcf2e4
- #fbeede
- #faebd7
- #c4b8a8
- #91887c
- #615b52
- #35312c
- #0e0c0a
From light to dark: 5 toward white and 5 toward black, mixed in OKLCH a sixth of the way at a time with the hue kept. A step that would repeat its neighbor is left out.
A palette around it
- #faebd7
- #8c84b4
- #2c233c
- #d5adde
- #604563
Recolor's generator, with antiquewhite locked as swatch 1 and the seed taken from its hex, drew an analogous palette, hues next to each other on the wheel: #8c84b4, #2c233c, #d5adde, #604563. Open it in Recolor.
Using antiquewhite
As a text color, antiquewhite on a black page gives the same 17.93:1.
.notice {
background-color: antiquewhite; /* #faebd7 */
color: black; /* 17.93:1 */
}Common questions
Does white text pass WCAG AA on antiquewhite?
No. White text measures 1.17:1 on antiquewhite, under AA's 4.5:1; black text measures 17.93:1 and passes.
Can antiquewhite be written in OKLCH?
Yes: oklch(94.7% 0.031 75.2), computed from #faebd7. A named color is an sRGB color, so its OKLCH value converts back to the same hex.
Is there a named color close to antiquewhite?
Yes: papayawhip (#ffefd5) is the nearest, 0.014 away in OKLab, then blanchedalmond at 0.014.