Linen color
Inspect Linen (#FAF0E6) in HEX, RGB, HSL, LCH and OKLCH, check its contrast, and copy the value you need.
Linen color values
Linen
#FAF0E6
Black text reads best on this background, at 18.67:1.
Linen is one of the 148 CSS named colors, and resolves to #FAF0E6 in every browser. In numbers that is rgb(250, 240, 230) and hsl(30, 67%, 94%). Perceptually it is a very light, near-neutral color: OKLCH puts its lightness at 96% 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 1.12:1 here, so black text is the safer pairing at 18.67:1. Because it is this light, Linen works best as a page or card background with dark text over it.
The closest CSS named colors to Linen, measured with CIEDE2000, are SeaShell (#FFF5EE), OldLace (#FDF5E6), FloralWhite (#FFFAF0). If Linen is not quite right, those are the nearest keywords to try before reaching for a custom value.
HEX
#FAF0E6
RGB
rgb(250, 240, 230)
HSL
hsl(30, 67%, 94%)
HWB
hwb(30 90% 2%)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 4%, 8%, 2%)
LAB
lab(95.39 2.23 6.11)
LCH
lch(95.39 6.5 69.93)
OKLCH
oklch(96.02% 0.0171 67.62)
Is Linen accessible?
WCAG asks for 4.5:1 between body text and its background. On #FAF0E6 white text measures 1.12:1 and black text 18.67:1, so black clears it and white does not.
White text on Linen
WCAG 2.2
1.12:1
APCA
Lc 0
Fails AA body text
Fails AAA body text
Fails AA large text
Black text on Linen
WCAG 2.2
18.67:1
APCA
Lc 97
Passes AA body text
Passes AAA body text
Passes AA large text
Check Linen against any other color in the contrast checker.
Tints and shades of Linen
Linen sits at 96% OKLCH lightness. Holding its hue and chroma and moving only that value carries it down to #0A0502, which keeps the family recognizable instead of letting it drift toward gray the way a plain HSL ramp does.
Shades, toward black
#C3B9B0
20% darker
#8F867D
40% darker
#5E554D
60% darker
#312922
80% darker
#0A0502
100% darker
Build a full accessible scale from #FAF0E6 in the shade generator.
How Linen looks with color blindness
The biggest shift is under tritanopia, where #FAF0E6 reads as #FEEEED, 5.9 CIEDE2000 units away. If Linen is the only thing marking a state or a series, roughly one viewer in twelve will miss it.
Protanopia
#F4F0E5
Deuteranopia
#F6F2E6
Tritanopia
#FEEEED
Achromatopsia
#F1F1F1
Colors similar to Linen
The nearest CSS keywords to #FAF0E6, ranked by perceptual distance rather than by how close their hex digits happen to look.