A warm white, black text passes AA
What color is seashell?
seashell is a warm white: #fff5ee in hex, rgb(255 245 238). Black text on it reaches 19.55:1, passing WCAG AAA. Recolor (recolor.page) shows it on a real page below.
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| Format | Value |
|---|---|
| Keyword | seashell |
| Hex | #fff5ee |
| RGB | rgb(255 245 238) |
| HSL | hsl(25 100% 97%) |
| OKLCH | oklch(97.6% 0.014 57.6) |
| Nearest Tailwind color | orange-50 #fff7ed, 0.006 away in OKLab |
| White text | 1.07:1: AA fails, AAA fails, large text fails |
| Black text | 19.55:1: AA passes, AAA passes, large text passes |
About seashell
Measured in OKLCH, seashell comes out at lightness 97.6%, chroma 0.014 and hue 57.6 degrees: a warm white.
HSL and OKLCH agree on how light it is, 97% and 97.6%. Its nearest CSS named color, oldlace (#fdf5e6), is 0.011 away in OKLab, too close to tell apart by eye.
Black on seashell reads at 19.55:1, enough for AAA body text; white reaches 1.07:1 and should stay off it. In the hue-sorted table of named colors it sits between ghostwhite and aliceblue.
In Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 the nearest default color is orange-50 (#fff7ed), 0.006 away in OKLab; for the exact color, an arbitrary value such as bg-[#fff5ee] works.
Tints and shades
- #fffdfe
- #fffbfc
- #fff9fb
- #fff7f9
- #fff5f8
- #fff5ee
- #c9bfc1
- #958d8f
- #645e60
- #363334
- #0f0d0e
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
- #fff5ee
- #838a5d
- #1a1d13
- #c5bbd6
- #4d5439
Around seashell as swatch 1, Recolor's generator made a complementary palette, built on the hue opposite: #838a5d, #1a1d13, #c5bbd6, #4d5439, drawn from a seed fixed by its hex. Open it in Recolor.
Using seashell
As a text color, seashell on a black page gives the same 19.55:1.
.notice {
background-color: seashell; /* #fff5ee */
color: black; /* 19.55:1 */
}Common questions
Does white text pass WCAG AA on seashell?
No. White text measures 1.07:1 on seashell, under AA's 4.5:1; black text measures 19.55:1 and passes.
Can seashell be written in OKLCH?
Yes: oklch(97.6% 0.014 57.6), computed from #fff5ee. A named color is an sRGB color, so its OKLCH value converts back to the same hex.
Is there a named color close to seashell?
Yes: oldlace (#fdf5e6) is the nearest, 0.011 away in OKLab, then floralwhite at 0.012.