Cream color: hex codes, shades and palettes

Palettes built around cream. Click any swatch to copy its hex code.

Cream is #FFFDD0, pale vivid yellow. Below are its shades with hex codes, the values in every common format, and cream color palettes to copy.

Cream hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#FFFDD0

HEX: #FFFDD0
RGB: rgb(255, 253, 208)
HSL: hsl(57, 100%, 91%)
OKLCH: oklch(98.4% 0.058 105.3)
On white: 1.04:1
On black: 20.21:1

Shades of cream

9 steps from one base color, generated in OKLCH so each step is an equal perceived step rather than an equal numeric one. Click a swatch to copy it.

Cream color values

#FFFDD0rgb(255, 253, 208)

Color spaces of #fffdd0
RGB	255	253	208
HSL	57°	100%	91%
HSV	57°	18%	100%
CMYK	0.00	0.01	0.18	0.00
XYZ	87.7498	96.0656	73.5821
Yxy	96.0656	0.3409	0.3732
CIE-Lab	98.4583	-6.4928	21.8324
Hunter Lab	98.0131	-11.7142	24.0979
OKLCH	98.4%	0.058	105.3°

#FFFDD0 is 255 red, 253 green and 208 blue. No single channel dominates it. The nearest of the 216 web safe colors is #FFFFCC.

CIE-Lab, XYZ and Yxy are measured against D65, the white point sRGB itself is defined against. Hunter Lab uses the original illuminant C constants, which is what paint and plastics specifications quote, so the two Lab rows are not directly comparable. CMYK is the plain arithmetic conversion: real ink values depend on the press, the paper and the profile.

Base numbers
Base	Red	Green	Blue
Binary	11111111	11111101	11010000
Octal	377	375	320
Decimal	255	253	208
Hex	FF	FD	D0

#fffdd0 mixed with black

Ten even steps of the classic shade ramp, worked out in RGB, which is how the term has always been defined and how other references list it. The OKLCH scale further down this page answers a different question: it steps by equal perceived amounts, so its values are not the same.

#FFFDD0
#E5E3BB
#CCCAA6
#B2B191
#99977C
#7F7E68
#666553
#4C4B3E
#323229
#191914
#000000

#fffdd0 mixed with white

The tint ramp, by the same rule in the other direction.

#FFFDD0
#FFFDD4
#FFFDD9
#FFFDDE
#FFFDE2
#FFFEE7
#FFFEEC
#FFFEF0
#FFFEF5
#FFFEFA
#FFFFFF

Channel shares

Red35.6%
Green35.3%
Blue29.1%

Color schemes

Turned in OKLCH rather than HSL, so every member keeps the lightness and chroma of the original instead of one of them arriving washed out.

Complementary

#FFFDD0
#F9F9FF

Triadic

#FFFDD0
#F3FBFF
#FFF7FB

Analogous

#FFFDD0
#F1FFEB
#FFF9F1

Monochromatic

#8C8A61
#B1AF84
#D7D5A9
#FFFDD0
#FEFCCF
#FEFCCF
#FEFCCF

#fffdd0 on black and on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 20.21:1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 1.04:1

Body text needs 4.5:1 to meet AA and large text needs 3:1, so a ratio tells you which of the two backgrounds this color can be read on, and at what size.

CSS for #fffdd0

color: #fffdd0;
background-color: #fffdd0;
border: 3px solid #fffdd0;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px 2px #fffdd0;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(255, 253, 208, 0.8);

/* Perceptually even, and what a modern stylesheet wants */
color: oklch(98.4% 0.058 105.3);

The OKLCH form is the same color stated so that lightening or darkening it moves by an amount the eye agrees with. Every current browser understands it.

Contrast and readability

Cream on white measures 1.04:1 and on black 20.21:1. WCAG AA asks for 4.5:1 on normal text and 3:1 on large text and UI components, so the higher of those two decides which background it belongs on. In the scale above, 500 is the first to clear 4.5:1 on white, at 5.23:1.

The contrast checker reports every level for a given pair and suggests the nearest passing shade on the same hue. The color picker builds this same scale from any color you paste in.

Related colors: ivory, beige. See every shade on the colors index.

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