HEX atlas value

#FCE9CF

#FCE9CF is a warm orange HEX color nearest Blanched Almond. RGB 252, 233, 207, HSL 35° 88% 90%, luminance 0.8348; view contrast and conversions.

orange warm light pastel

#FCE9CF Sample readable text

HEX #FCE9CF

RGB rgb(252, 233, 207)

HSL hsl(35 88% 90%)

CMYK cmyk(0, 8, 18, 1)

Luminance 0.8348

Contrast Black 17.7:1White 1.19:1

CSS

--color-fce9cf: #FCE9CF;
.background-fce9cf { background-color: #FCE9CF; }
.text-fce9cf { color: #FCE9CF; }

HEX meaning and use

About #FCE9CF

#FCE9CF is classified as a warm orange value with light and pastel visual character. #FCE9CF is visually closest to Blanched Almond, a named orange color with HEX #FFEBCD.

The RGB channels are 252, 233, and 207, with red carrying the strongest channel weight. In HSL, the hue is 35deg with 88% saturation and 90% lightness, so this page treats it as a high-saturation, light atlas color rather than a generic swatch.

Practical uses for this HEX value include color conversion, WCAG contrast checks, CSS color tokens, and soft UI backgrounds. Its luminance is 0.8348, black text provides the stronger contrast for readable interface or documentation use, and Its nearest named-color distance is 4.12, which helps separate this atlas value from adjacent named color records.

WCAG Accessibility

Black text17.7:1AA Pass

White text1.19:1AA Fail

AA text options: #000000, #1A1A1A, #36454F.

AAA text options: #000000, #1A1A1A, #36454F.

Accessibility-Safe Pairings and Alternatives

Use these pairings when #FCE9CF needs readable text, badges, interface states, or nearby accessible alternatives.

Black text#00000017.7:1 · AAA

White text#FFFFFF1.19:1 · Fail

Accessible Alternatives

White#FFFFFF · #000000 text · best 21:1 #F8FCCF#F8FCCF · #000000 text · best 19.82:1 Papaya Whip#FFEFD5 · #000000 text · best 18.56:1 Blanched Almond#FFEBCD · #000000 text · best 18.02:1 Antique White#FAEBD7 · #000000 text · best 17.93:1

Generated Palette

#FCE9CF#FCE9CF

#CFE2FC#CFE2FC

#FCD3CF#FCD3CF

#F8FCCF#F8FCCF

White#FFFFFF

#F6C279#F6C279

Color Harmonies

#CFE2FC#CFE2FC

#FCD3CF#FCD3CF

#F8FCCF#F8FCCF

#CFFCE9#CFFCE9

#E9CFFC#E9CFFC

Variants

White#FFFFFF

#F6C279#F6C279

#FFEACC#FFEACC

#F6E8D5#F6E8D5

White#FFFFFF

#FFFBF5#FFFBF5

Nearest Named Colors

Blanched Almond#FFEBCD

Champagne#F7E7CE

Canvas#F4EBD0

Antique White#FAEBD7

Papaya Whip#FFEFD5

Luminance0.8348

Black text17.7:1AA Pass

White text1.19:1AA Fail

hexCanonical HEX value

rgbRed, green, blue channels

hslHue, saturation, lightness

cmykApproximate print conversion

wcagAA and AAA contrast options

harmoniesMathematical harmony sets

variantsGenerated tone variants

nearestColorsKnowledge graph neighbors

Structured sections

Color systems

{"hex":"#FCE9CF","rgb":[252,233,207],"hsl":[35,88,90],"cmyk":[0,8,18,1],"luminance":0.8348,"contrast":{"black":17.7,"white":1.19}}

WCAG

{"AA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"AAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]}

Safe pairings

[{"name":"Black text","hex":"#000000","contrast":17.7,"wcagAA":true,"wcagAAA":true},{"name":"White text","hex":"#FFFFFF","contrast":1.19,"wcagAA":false,"wcagAAA":false}]

Accessible alternatives

[{"name":"White","hex":"#FFFFFF","family":"gray","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":21,"contrastWhite":1,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"#F8FCCF","hex":"#F8FCCF","family":"yellow","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":19.82,"contrastWhite":1.06,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"Papaya Whip","hex":"#FFEFD5","family":"orange","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":18.56,"contrastWhite":1.13,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"Blanched Almond","hex":"#FFEBCD","family":"orange","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":18.02,"contrastWhite":1.17,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"Antique White","hex":"#FAEBD7","family":"orange","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":17.93,"contrastWhite":1.17,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]}]

AI context

{"semanticGroups":["warm orange","light","pastel","light orange","pastel orange","Blanched Almond adjacent"],"useCases":["color conversion","WCAG contrast checks","CSS color tokens","soft UI backgrounds","light surfaces"],"contrastSafeWith":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"relatedEndpoints":["https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/hex/fce9cf.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/hex.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/blanched-almond.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/champagne.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/canvas.json"]}

Harmonies

{"complementary":"#CFE2FC","analogous":["#FCD3CF","#F8FCCF"],"triadic":["#CFFCE9","#E9CFFC"],"tetradic":["#CFFCD3","#CFE2FC","#FCCFF8"],"splitComplementary":["#CFF8FC","#D3CFFC"],"monochromatic":["#FFFFFF","#FCE9CF","#F6C279"]}

Variants

{"light":"#FFFFFF","dark":"#F6C279","saturated":"#FFEACC","desaturated":"#F6E8D5","pastel":"#FFFFFF","neon":"#FFFBF5"}

Nearest named colors

[{"slug":"blanched-almond","name":"Blanched Almond","hex":"#FFEBCD","distance":4.123105625617661},{"slug":"champagne","name":"Champagne","hex":"#F7E7CE","distance":5.477225575051661},{"slug":"canvas","name":"Canvas","hex":"#F4EBD0","distance":8.306623862918075},{"slug":"antique-white","name":"Antique White","hex":"#FAEBD7","distance":8.48528137423857},{"slug":"papaya-whip","name":"Papaya Whip","hex":"#FFEFD5","distance":9}]

#FCE9CF

CSS

About #FCE9CF

WCAG Accessibility

Accessibility-Safe Pairings and Alternatives

Accessible Alternatives

Generated Palette

Color Harmonies

Variants

Nearest Named Colors

Machine-Readable HEX Data (JSON)

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