HEX atlas value

#FFDAB9

#FFDAB9 is a warm orange HEX color nearest Pastel Peach. RGB 255, 218, 185, HSL 28° 100% 86%, luminance 0.7491; view contrast and conversions.

orange warm light pastel

#FFDAB9 Sample readable text

HEX #FFDAB9

RGB rgb(255, 218, 185)

HSL hsl(28 100% 86%)

CMYK cmyk(0, 15, 27, 0)

Luminance 0.7491

Contrast Black 15.98:1White 1.31:1

CSS

--color-ffdab9: #FFDAB9;
.background-ffdab9 { background-color: #FFDAB9; }
.text-ffdab9 { color: #FFDAB9; }

HEX meaning and use

About #FFDAB9

#FFDAB9 is classified as a warm orange value with light and pastel visual character. #FFDAB9 is visually closest to Pastel Peach, a named orange color with HEX #FFDAB9.

The RGB channels are 255, 218, and 185, with red carrying the strongest channel weight. In HSL, the hue is 28deg with 100% saturation and 86% 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 0.7491, black text provides the stronger contrast for readable interface or documentation use, and Its nearest named-color distance is 0.00, which helps separate this atlas value from adjacent named color records.

WCAG Accessibility

Black text15.98:1AA Pass

White text1.31:1AA Fail

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

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

Accessibility-Safe Pairings and Alternatives

Use these pairings when #FFDAB9 needs readable text, badges, interface states, or nearby accessible alternatives.

Black text#00000015.98:1 · AAA

White text#FFFFFF1.31:1 · Fail

Accessible Alternatives

White#FFFFFF · #000000 text · best 21:1 #FFFDB8#FFFDB8 · #000000 text · best 19.99:1 Peach#FFE5B4 · #000000 text · best 17.12:1 Moccasin#FFE4B5 · #000000 text · best 17.02:1 Wheat#F5DEB3 · #000000 text · best 15.98:1

Generated Palette

Peach Puff#FFDAB9

#B8DEFF#B8DEFF

#FFB8BA#FFB8BA

#FFFDB8#FFFDB8

White#FFFFFF

#FFA85C#FFA85C

Color Harmonies

#B8DEFF#B8DEFF

#FFB8BA#FFB8BA

#FFFDB8#FFFDB8

#B8FFD9#B8FFD9

#D9B8FF#D9B8FF

Variants

White#FFFFFF

#FFA85C#FFA85C

#FFD9B8#FFD9B8

#F7D9BF#F7D9BF

White#FFFFFF

#FFEFE0#FFEFE0

Nearest Named Colors

Pastel Peach#FFDAB9

Peach Puff#FFDAB9

Moccasin#FFE4B5

Peach#FFE5B4

Wheat#F5DEB3

Luminance0.7491

Black text15.98:1AA Pass

White text1.31:1AA 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":"#FFDAB9","rgb":[255,218,185],"hsl":[28,100,86],"cmyk":[0,15,27,0],"luminance":0.7491,"contrast":{"black":15.98,"white":1.31}}

WCAG

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

Safe pairings

[{"name":"Black text","hex":"#000000","contrast":15.98,"wcagAA":true,"wcagAAA":true},{"name":"White text","hex":"#FFFFFF","contrast":1.31,"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":"#FFFDB8","hex":"#FFFDB8","family":"yellow","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":19.99,"contrastWhite":1.05,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"Peach","hex":"#FFE5B4","family":"orange","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":17.12,"contrastWhite":1.23,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"Moccasin","hex":"#FFE4B5","family":"orange","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":17.02,"contrastWhite":1.23,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"Wheat","hex":"#F5DEB3","family":"orange","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":15.98,"contrastWhite":1.31,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]}]

AI context

{"semanticGroups":["warm orange","light","pastel","light orange","pastel orange","Pastel Peach 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/ffdab9.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/hex.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/pastel-peach.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/peach-puff.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/moccasin.json"]}

Harmonies

{"complementary":"#B8DEFF","analogous":["#FFB8BA","#FFFDB8"],"triadic":["#B8FFD9","#D9B8FF"],"tetradic":["#BAFFB8","#B8DEFF","#FDB8FF"],"splitComplementary":["#B8FFFD","#B8BAFF"],"monochromatic":["#FFFFFF","#FFDAB9","#FFA85C"]}

Variants

{"light":"#FFFFFF","dark":"#FFA85C","saturated":"#FFD9B8","desaturated":"#F7D9BF","pastel":"#FFFFFF","neon":"#FFEFE0"}

Nearest named colors

[{"slug":"pastel-peach","name":"Pastel Peach","hex":"#FFDAB9","distance":0},{"slug":"peach-puff","name":"Peach Puff","hex":"#FFDAB9","distance":0},{"slug":"moccasin","name":"Moccasin","hex":"#FFE4B5","distance":10.770329614269007},{"slug":"peach","name":"Peach","hex":"#FFE5B4","distance":12.083045973594572},{"slug":"wheat","name":"Wheat","hex":"#F5DEB3","distance":12.328828005937952}]

#FFDAB9

CSS

About #FFDAB9

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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