HEX atlas value

#FFE4B5

#FFE4B5 is a warm orange HEX color nearest Moccasin. RGB 255, 228, 181, HSL 38° 100% 85%, luminance 0.8008; view contrast and conversions.

orange warm pastel

#FFE4B5 Sample readable text

HEX #FFE4B5

RGB rgb(255, 228, 181)

HSL hsl(38 100% 85%)

CMYK cmyk(0, 11, 29, 0)

Luminance 0.8008

Contrast Black 17.02:1White 1.23:1

CSS

--color-ffe4b5: #FFE4B5;
.background-ffe4b5 { background-color: #FFE4B5; }
.text-ffe4b5 { color: #FFE4B5; }

HEX meaning and use

About #FFE4B5

#FFE4B5 is classified as a warm orange value with pastel visual character. #FFE4B5 is visually closest to Moccasin, a named orange color with HEX #FFE4B5.

The RGB channels are 255, 228, and 181, with red carrying the strongest channel weight. In HSL, the hue is 38deg with 100% saturation and 85% 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 0.8008, 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 text17.02:1AA Pass

White text1.23:1AA Fail

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

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

Accessibility-Safe Pairings and Alternatives

Use these pairings when #FFE4B5 needs readable text, badges, interface states, or nearby accessible alternatives.

Black text#00000017.02:1 · AAA

White text#FFFFFF1.23:1 · Fail

Accessible Alternatives

White#FFFFFF · #000000 text · best 21:1 #F5FFB3#F5FFB3 · #000000 text · best 19.84:1 Peach#FFE5B4 · #000000 text · best 17.12:1 #FFE3B3#FFE3B3 · #000000 text · best 16.89:1 #F7E1BB#F7E1BB · #000000 text · best 16.44:1

Generated Palette

Moccasin#FFE4B5

#B3CFFF#B3CFFF

#FFBDB3#FFBDB3

#F5FFB3#F5FFB3

White#FFFFFF

#FFC157#FFC157

Color Harmonies

#B3CFFF#B3CFFF

#FFBDB3#FFBDB3

#F5FFB3#F5FFB3

#B3FFE3#B3FFE3

#E3B3FF#E3B3FF

Variants

White#FFFFFF

#FFC157#FFC157

#FFE3B3#FFE3B3

#F7E1BB#F7E1BB

White#FFFFFF

#FFF2DB#FFF2DB

Nearest Named Colors

Moccasin#FFE4B5

Peach#FFE5B4

Navajo White#FFDEAD

Pastel Peach#FFDAB9

Peach Puff#FFDAB9

Luminance0.8008

Black text17.02:1AA Pass

White text1.23:1AA 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":"#FFE4B5","rgb":[255,228,181],"hsl":[38,100,85],"cmyk":[0,11,29,0],"luminance":0.8008,"contrast":{"black":17.02,"white":1.23}}

WCAG

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

Safe pairings

[{"name":"Black text","hex":"#000000","contrast":17.02,"wcagAA":true,"wcagAAA":true},{"name":"White text","hex":"#FFFFFF","contrast":1.23,"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":"#F5FFB3","hex":"#F5FFB3","family":"yellow","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":19.84,"contrastWhite":1.06,"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":"#FFE3B3","hex":"#FFE3B3","family":"orange","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":16.89,"contrastWhite":1.24,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"#F7E1BB","hex":"#F7E1BB","family":"orange","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":16.44,"contrastWhite":1.28,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]}]

AI context

{"semanticGroups":["warm orange","pastel","pastel orange","Moccasin adjacent"],"useCases":["color conversion","WCAG contrast checks","CSS color tokens","soft UI backgrounds"],"contrastSafeWith":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"relatedEndpoints":["https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/hex/ffe4b5.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/hex.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/moccasin.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/peach.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/navajo-white.json"]}

Harmonies

{"complementary":"#B3CFFF","analogous":["#FFBDB3","#F5FFB3"],"triadic":["#B3FFE3","#E3B3FF"],"tetradic":["#B3FFBD","#B3CFFF","#FFB3F5"],"splitComplementary":["#B3F5FF","#BDB3FF"],"monochromatic":["#FFFFFF","#FFE4B5","#FFC157"]}

Variants

{"light":"#FFFFFF","dark":"#FFC157","saturated":"#FFE3B3","desaturated":"#F7E1BB","pastel":"#FFFFFF","neon":"#FFF2DB"}

Nearest named colors

[{"slug":"moccasin","name":"Moccasin","hex":"#FFE4B5","distance":0},{"slug":"peach","name":"Peach","hex":"#FFE5B4","distance":1.4142135623730951},{"slug":"navajo-white","name":"Navajo White","hex":"#FFDEAD","distance":10},{"slug":"pastel-peach","name":"Pastel Peach","hex":"#FFDAB9","distance":10.770329614269007},{"slug":"peach-puff","name":"Peach Puff","hex":"#FFDAB9","distance":10.770329614269007}]

#FFE4B5

CSS

About #FFE4B5

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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