Seashell #FFF5EE

About this color

#FFF5EE is a very light close to neutral grey. In OKLCH its lightness is 98%, its chroma 0.014. It has too little chroma to lean warm or cool. It is the named color Seashell. Black text reads best on it, at 19.54:1.

Colors that go with Seashell

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

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

Color palettes with Seashell

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

• Burrow Forage
• Bonfire Orchard
• Sage and Olive
• Rosewater and Blush
• Blush Dance
• Garden Ceremony
• Heather Fade
• Umber Workshop

Similar named colors

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

• Very Light Pink #FFF4F2 ΔE 0.007
• Old Lace #FDF5E6 ΔE 0.011
• Floral White #FFFAF0 ΔE 0.012
• White Smoke #F5F5F5 ΔE 0.015
• Linen #FAF0E6 ΔE 0.016
• Snow #FFFAFA ΔE 0.017
• Cultured #F8F9FA ΔE 0.017
• Lavender Blush #FFF0F5 ΔE 0.018

More about Seashell

• Shades of white
• What white means

How to make Seashell

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 Seashell. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make gray? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Seashell 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 Seashell

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)

   #FFF5EE

   oklch(97.6% 0.014 57.6)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EDE9E6

   oklch(93.6% 0.006 59.6)

3. Step 200

   200

   #DFD8D3

   oklch(88.6% 0.01 58.2)

4. Step 300

   300

   #CABEB5

   oklch(80.9% 0.018 59.4)

5. Step 400

   400

   #AF9C8F

   oklch(70.6% 0.029 56.6)

6. Step 500

   500

   #9C8474

   oklch(63.1% 0.038 55.6)

7. Step 600

   600

   #866E5C

   oklch(55.6% 0.041 58.7)

8. Step 700

   700

   #725C4C

   oklch(49.2% 0.038 57.7)

9. Step 800

   800

   #5D4B3E

   oklch(42.8% 0.032 57.6)

10. Step 900

    900

    #4C3F35

    oklch(37.8% 0.025 59.5)

11. Step 950

    950

    #2C251F

    oklch(27% 0.015 62.7)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Seashell 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.