LavenderBlush color

Inspect LavenderBlush (#FFF0F5) in HEX, RGB, HSL, LCH and OKLCH, check its contrast, and copy the value you need.

#fff0f5

LavenderBlush

LavenderBlush color values

LavenderBlush

#FFF0F5

Black text reads best on this background, at 19.03:1.

LavenderBlush is one of the 148 CSS named colors, and resolves to #FFF0F5 in every browser. In numbers that is rgb(255, 240, 245) and hsl(340, 100%, 97%). Perceptually it is a very light, near-neutral color: OKLCH puts its lightness at 97% and its chroma at 0.017. It carries almost no chroma, so it behaves as a neutral rather than as a hue, and belongs with the off-whites.

White text only reaches 1.1:1 here, so black text is the safer pairing at 19.03:1. Because it is this light, LavenderBlush works best as a page or card background with dark text over it.

The closest CSS named colors to LavenderBlush, measured with CIEDE2000, are Snow (#FFFAFA), MistyRose (#FFE4E1), GhostWhite (#F8F8FF). If LavenderBlush is not quite right, those are the nearest keywords to try before reaching for a custom value.

HEX

#FFF0F5

RGB

rgb(255, 240, 245)

HSL

hsl(340, 100%, 97%)

HWB

hwb(340 94% 0%)

CMYK

cmyk(0%, 6%, 4%, 0%)

LAB

lab(96.1 5.86 -0.51)

LCH

lch(96.1 5.88 355.04)

OKLCH

oklch(96.83% 0.0174 355.1)

Is LavenderBlush accessible?

WCAG asks for 4.5:1 between body text and its background. On #FFF0F5 white text measures 1.1:1 and black text 19.03:1, so black clears it and white does not.

White text on LavenderBlush

WCAG 2.2

1.1:1

APCA

Lc 0

Fails AA body text

Fails AAA body text

Fails AA large text

Black text on LavenderBlush

WCAG 2.2

19.03:1

APCA

Lc 99

Passes AA body text

Passes AAA body text

Passes AA large text

Check LavenderBlush against any other color in the contrast checker.

Tints and shades of LavenderBlush

LavenderBlush sits at 97% OKLCH lightness. Holding its hue and chroma and moving only that value carries it down to #0B0406, which keeps the family recognizable instead of letting it drift toward gray the way a plain HSL ramp does.

Shades, toward black

#C7B9BE

20% darker

#928589

40% darker

#605458

60% darker

#33282C

80% darker

#0B0406

100% darker

Build a full accessible scale from #FFF0F5 in the shade generator.

How LavenderBlush looks with color blindness

The biggest shift is under achromatopsia, where #FFF0F5 reads as #F4F4F4, 7.4 CIEDE2000 units away. If LavenderBlush is the only thing marking a state or a series, roughly one viewer in twelve will miss it.

Protanopia

#F1F2F5

Deuteranopia

#F4F4F5

Tritanopia

#FFF0F2

Achromatopsia

#F4F4F4

Colors similar to LavenderBlush

The nearest CSS keywords to #FFF0F5, ranked by perceptual distance rather than by how close their hex digits happen to look.