Lemon Chiffon color (#FFFACD)
Lemon Chiffon is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword lemonchiffon
anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #FFFACD, which is rgb(255, 250, 205) in RGB.
It is a very light, muted warm color with a hue angle of 54° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 98% in OKLCH. On a lemon chiffon background, black text gives the higher contrast at 19.80:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.
Lemon Chiffon color codes
| CSS name | lemonchiffon |
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|---|---|---|
| HEX | #FFFACD |
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| HEX (8-digit) | #FFFACDFF |
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| RGB | rgb(255, 250, 205) |
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| HSL | hsl(54, 100%, 90%) |
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| HSV / HSB | hsv(54, 20%, 100%) |
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| OKLCH | oklch(97.8% 0.0582 102.2) |
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| CMYK | cmyk(0%, 2%, 19.6%, 0%) |
Contrast with white and black
WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for lemon chiffon used as text and as a background.
Tints and shades of lemon chiffon
Tints mix lemon chiffon with white; shades mix it with black, in 10% steps. Click a swatch to copy it, or build custom scales in the tint & shade generator.
Tints
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Colors that go with lemon chiffon
Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.
Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split-Complementary
Lemon Chiffon with color blindness
Approximately how lemon chiffon appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.
Using lemon chiffon in CSS
.element {
color: lemonchiffon;
background-color: #fffacd;
border-color: rgb(255 250 205 / 50%);
outline-color: oklch(97.8% 0.0582 102.2);
}Similar named colors
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