Alice Blue #F0F8FF

About this color

#F0F8FF is a very light close to neutral grey. In OKLCH its lightness is 98%, its chroma 0.013. It has too little chroma to lean warm or cool. It is the named color Alice Blue. Black text reads best on it, at 19.57:1.

Colors that go with Alice Blue

Matches found by rotating Alice Blue around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Alice Blue is close to neutral, so it has no hue to rotate. It pairs with almost any color; try the palettes below.

Color palettes with Alice Blue

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Alice Blue, closest first.

• Vector Grid
• Summit and Harbour
• Summit Briefing
• Trust Boardroom
• Summit Advisory
• Meridian Holdings
• Office Folder
• Office and Cabinet

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Alice Blue, with their ΔE distance.

• Ghost White #F8F8FF ΔE 0.010
• Cultured #F8F9FA ΔE 0.013
• White Smoke #F5F5F5 ΔE 0.014
• Azure #F0FFFF ΔE 0.018
• Anti-Flash White #EDF2F4 ΔE 0.019
• Snow #FFFAFA ΔE 0.022
• Pale Grey #FDFDFE ΔE 0.022
• Mint Cream #F5FFFA ΔE 0.023

More about Alice Blue

• Shades of white
• What white means

How to make Alice Blue

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 1 part white

Recipe result: #FFFFFF, a difference of ΔE 0.028 from Alice Blue. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make gray? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Alice Blue in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Alice Blue

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 50.

1. Step 50

   50 (this color)

   #F0F8FF

   oklch(97.5% 0.013 244.3)

2. Step 100

   100

   #E7EAED

   oklch(93.6% 0.005 247.9)

3. Step 200

   200

   #D4DADF

   oklch(88.5% 0.009 242.9)

4. Step 300

   300

   #B8C2CB

   oklch(80.9% 0.017 245.1)

5. Step 400

   400

   #93A3B0

   oklch(70.7% 0.026 242.5)

6. Step 500

   500

   #798C9D

   oklch(63.1% 0.034 245.4)

7. Step 600

   600

   #627687

   oklch(55.6% 0.036 244.1)

8. Step 700

   700

   #516373

   oklch(49.1% 0.034 245.4)

9. Step 800

   800

   #42515D

   oklch(42.7% 0.028 242.5)

10. Step 900

    900

    #38434D

    oklch(37.7% 0.022 245.9)

11. Step 950

    950

    #21272D

    oklch(26.9% 0.014 248.4)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Alice Blue with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.