Cornsilk #FFF8DC

About this color

#FFF8DC is a very light, muted yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 98%, its chroma 0.037 and its hue 95°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Cornsilk. Black text reads best on it, at 19.71:1.

Colors that go with Cornsilk

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

Color palettes with Cornsilk

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

• Plum Blue Hour
• Sumac Jar
• Harvest Orchard
• Hay and Buttercup
• Sunlit Pasture
• Clover and Sunlit
• Pool Festival
• Popsicle Break

Similar named colors

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

• Beige #F5F5DC ΔE 0.016
• Pale #FFF9D0 ΔE 0.017
• Light Yellow #FFFFE0 ΔE 0.017
• Light Goldenrod Yellow #FAFAD2 ΔE 0.017
• Off White #FFFFE4 ΔE 0.017
• Old Lace #FDF5E6 ΔE 0.018
• Lemon Chiffon #FFFACD ΔE 0.022
• Papaya Whip #FFEFD5 ΔE 0.022

More about Cornsilk

• Shades of white
• What white means

How to make Cornsilk

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 0.043 from Cornsilk. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make gray? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Cornsilk 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 Cornsilk

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)

   #FFF8DC

   oklch(97.7% 0.037 95.4)

2. Step 100

   100

   #ECEAE0

   oklch(93.6% 0.013 97.4)

3. Step 200

   200

   #DED9C6

   oklch(88.4% 0.026 94.8)

4. Step 300

   300

   #CAC19E

   oklch(80.9% 0.048 95.3)

5. Step 400

   400

   #AFA169

   oklch(70.8% 0.076 95.8)

6. Step 500

   500

   #9C893E

   oklch(63.2% 0.098 95.2)

7. Step 600

   600

   #877217

   oklch(55.6% 0.106 95)

8. Step 700

   700

   #725F05

   oklch(49% 0.099 95)

9. Step 800

   800

   #5D4E0C

   oklch(42.7% 0.082 95.2)

10. Step 900

    900

    #4C4114

    oklch(37.7% 0.064 95.3)

11. Step 950

    950

    #2C260D

    oklch(26.9% 0.041 96)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Cornsilk 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.