HEX atlas value

#FEF2CD

#FEF2CD is a warm yellow HEX color nearest Blanched Almond. RGB 254, 242, 205, HSL 45° 96% 90%, luminance 0.8898; view contrast and conversions.

yellow warm light pastel

#FEF2CD Sample readable text

HEX #FEF2CD

RGB rgb(254, 242, 205)

HSL hsl(45 96% 90%)

CMYK cmyk(0, 5, 19, 0)

Luminance 0.8898

Contrast Black 18.8:1White 1.12:1

CSS

--color-fef2cd: #FEF2CD;
.background-fef2cd { background-color: #FEF2CD; }
.text-fef2cd { color: #FEF2CD; }

HEX meaning and use

About #FEF2CD

#FEF2CD is classified as a warm yellow value with light and pastel visual character. #FEF2CD is visually closest to Blanched Almond, a named orange color with HEX #FFEBCD.

The RGB channels are 254, 242, and 205, with red carrying the strongest channel weight. In HSL, the hue is 45deg with 96% 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 0.8898, black text provides the stronger contrast for readable interface or documentation use, and Its nearest named-color distance is 7.07, which helps separate this atlas value from adjacent named color records.

WCAG Accessibility

Black text18.8:1AA Pass

White text1.12:1AA Fail

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

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

Accessibility-Safe Pairings and Alternatives

Use these pairings when #FEF2CD needs readable text, badges, interface states, or nearby accessible alternatives.

Black text#00000018.8:1 · AAA

White text#FFFFFF1.12:1 · Fail

Accessible Alternatives

White#FFFFFF · #000000 text · best 21:1 Cream#FFFDD0 · #000000 text · best 20.21:1 #F2FECD#F2FECD · #000000 text · best 19.83:1 Lemon Chiffon#FFFACD · #000000 text · best 19.81:1 Light Goldenrod Yellow#FAFAD2 · #000000 text · best 19.67:1

Generated Palette

#FEF2CD#FEF2CD

#CDD9FE#CDD9FE

#FED9CD#FED9CD

#F2FECD#F2FECD

White#FFFFFF

#FCDA73#FCDA73

Color Harmonies

#CDD9FE#CDD9FE

#FED9CD#FED9CD

#F2FECD#F2FECD

#CDFEF2#CDFEF2

#F2CDFE#F2CDFE

Variants

White#FFFFFF

#FCDA73#FCDA73

#FFF2CC#FFF2CC

#F8EFD3#F8EFD3

White#FFFFFF

#FFFCF5#FFFCF5

Nearest Named Colors

Blanched Almond#FFEBCD

Lemon Chiffon#FFFACD

Papaya Whip#FFEFD5

Light Goldenrod Yellow#FAFAD2

Cream#FFFDD0

Luminance0.8898

Black text18.8:1AA Pass

White text1.12:1AA 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":"#FEF2CD","rgb":[254,242,205],"hsl":[45,96,90],"cmyk":[0,5,19,0],"luminance":0.8898,"contrast":{"black":18.8,"white":1.12}}

WCAG

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

Safe pairings

[{"name":"Black text","hex":"#000000","contrast":18.8,"wcagAA":true,"wcagAAA":true},{"name":"White text","hex":"#FFFFFF","contrast":1.12,"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":"Cream","hex":"#FFFDD0","family":"yellow","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":20.21,"contrastWhite":1.04,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"#F2FECD","hex":"#F2FECD","family":"green","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":19.83,"contrastWhite":1.06,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"Lemon Chiffon","hex":"#FFFACD","family":"yellow","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":19.81,"contrastWhite":1.06,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"Light Goldenrod Yellow","hex":"#FAFAD2","family":"yellow","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":19.67,"contrastWhite":1.07,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]}]

AI context

{"semanticGroups":["warm yellow","light","pastel","light yellow","pastel yellow","Blanched Almond adjacent"],"useCases":["color conversion","WCAG contrast checks","CSS color tokens","soft UI backgrounds","light surfaces","highlight and warning systems"],"contrastSafeWith":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"relatedEndpoints":["https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/hex/fef2cd.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/hex.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/blanched-almond.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/lemon-chiffon.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/papaya-whip.json"]}

Harmonies

{"complementary":"#CDD9FE","analogous":["#FED9CD","#F2FECD"],"triadic":["#CDFEF2","#F2CDFE"],"tetradic":["#CDFED9","#CDD9FE","#FECDF2"],"splitComplementary":["#CDF2FE","#D9CDFE"],"monochromatic":["#FFFFFF","#FEF2CD","#FCDA73"]}

Variants

{"light":"#FFFFFF","dark":"#FCDA73","saturated":"#FFF2CC","desaturated":"#F8EFD3","pastel":"#FFFFFF","neon":"#FFFCF5"}

Nearest named colors

[{"slug":"blanched-almond","name":"Blanched Almond","hex":"#FFEBCD","distance":7.0710678118654755},{"slug":"lemon-chiffon","name":"Lemon Chiffon","hex":"#FFFACD","distance":8.06225774829855},{"slug":"papaya-whip","name":"Papaya Whip","hex":"#FFEFD5","distance":8.602325267042627},{"slug":"light-goldenrod-yellow","name":"Light Goldenrod Yellow","hex":"#FAFAD2","distance":10.246950765959598},{"slug":"cream","name":"Cream","hex":"#FFFDD0","distance":11.445523142259598}]

#FEF2CD

CSS

About #FEF2CD

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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