CSS named colour

Bisque

#ffe4c4

A CSS named colour: bisque is valid anywhere a colour is expected.

RGB: rgb(255 228 196)
HSL: 33°, 100%, 88%
OKLCh: 93.3% 0.051 71.8

Bisque in every format

Web & CSSThe everyday formats for stylesheets and design tools.

Hex	`#ffe4c4`
RGB	`rgb(255 228 196)`
RGB legacy	`rgb(255, 228, 196)`
RGB percent	`rgb(100% 89.41% 76.86%)`
HSL	`hsl(32.5 100% 88.4%)`
HSL legacy	`hsl(32.5, 100%, 88.4%)`
HSV / HSB	`hsv(32.5, 23.1%, 100%)`
HWB	`hwb(32.5 76.9% 0%)`
Nearest name	`bisque`
CMYK	`cmyk(0%, 10.6%, 23.1%, 0%)`Naive conversion. Real print work needs an ICC profile.

Perceptual & wide gamutModern CSS colour spaces for uniform scales and P3 displays.

OKLCh	`oklch(93.286% 0.05145 71.849)`Modern CSS colour space for even palettes — better than HSL when building scales.
OKLab	`oklab(93.286% 0.01603 0.04889)`
CIE LCh	`lch(92.227% 20.162 72.623)`
CIE Lab	`lab(92.227% 6.022 19.242)`
Display P3	`color(display-p3 0.9823 0.8979 0.7833)`
Rec. 2020	`color(rec2020 0.9526 0.8887 0.7604)`
srgb-linear	`color(srgb-linear 1 0.7758 0.552)`Light-linear sRGB — the same numbers a shader wants for maths.
CIE XYZ (D65)	`color(xyz-d65 0.7894 0.8073 0.6365)`

ShadersGLSL, HLSL and WGSL vectors in both encoded and linear form.

GLSL vec3 — sRGB	`vec3(1.0, 0.894, 0.769)`Encoded values. Use when writing straight to the framebuffer.
GLSL vec3 — linear	`vec3(1.0, 0.776, 0.552)`Light-linear values. Use for lighting, blending and mixing.
GLSL vec4 — sRGB	`vec4(1.0, 0.894, 0.769, 1.0)`
GLSL vec4 — linear	`vec4(1.0, 0.776, 0.552, 1.0)`
GLSL ivec3	`ivec3(255, 228, 196)`
HLSL float3 — sRGB	`float3(1.0, 0.894, 0.769)`
HLSL float3 — linear	`float3(1.0, 0.776, 0.552)`
HLSL float4 — sRGB	`float4(1.0, 0.894, 0.769, 1.0)`
HLSL half4 — sRGB	`half4(1.0, 0.894, 0.769, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3f — sRGB	`vec3f(1.0, 0.894, 0.769)`
WGSL vec4f — sRGB	`vec4f(1.0, 0.894, 0.769, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3<f32> — linear	`vec3<f32>(1.0, 0.776, 0.552)`

Engines & appsConstructors for Unity, Unreal, Godot, Flutter, SwiftUI and Android.

Unity Color	`new Color(1.0f, 0.894f, 0.769f, 1.0f)`Color for everyday scripting (0–1). Color32 when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unity Color32	`new Color32(255, 228, 196, 255)`
Unreal FLinearColor	`FLinearColor(1.0f, 0.7758f, 0.552f, 1.0f)`FLinearColor for materials and lighting. FColor when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unreal FColor	`FColor(255, 228, 196, 255)`Whole numbers from 0 to 255 — use when an API asks for FColor, not FLinearColor.
Godot Color	`Color(1, 0.894, 0.769, 1)`
Flutter Color	`Color(0xFFFFE4C4)`Packed ARGB, so alpha comes first.
Android Color	`Color.rgb(255, 228, 196)`
SwiftUI Color	`Color(red: 1, green: 0.894, blue: 0.769)`
UIKit UIColor	`UIColor(red: 1, green: 0.894, blue: 0.769, alpha: 1)`

Raw valuesPacked integers and plain arrays.

0x hex	`0xFFE4C4`
0x hex (ARGB)	`0xFFFFE4C4`
Array 0–1	`[1, 0.894, 0.769]`
Array 0–255	`[255, 228, 196]`
Decimal integer	`16770244`

Contrast and accessibility

WCAG 2 ratios are what audits and legislation reference. APCA is shown alongside because WCAG 2 is known to misjudge mid-tone backgrounds, and it is the basis of the WCAG 3 draft.

Pairing	WCAG 2 ratio	Level	APCA	Suitable for
Bisque on white	1.22:1	Fail	Lc 11	Not usable for text
Bisque on black	17.15:1	AAA	Lc 93	Body text at any size

Bisque text on a white background

Bisque text on a black background

White text on Bisque

Black text on Bisque

Tonal scale

Hue held fixed while lightness walks OKLCh, ready to use as a design system ramp.

50#fff4dc
100#ffead1
200#efd8be
300#d9c1a5
400#bda587
500#9f8769
600#846d51
700#6c573d
800#57442d
900#453420
950#291c0c

Tints and shades

Mixed perceptually toward white and black, so the steps feel evenly spaced.

Tint 1#ffe9ce
Tint 2#ffedd8
Tint 3#fff2e2
Tint 4#fff6eb
Tint 5#fffbf5
Shade 1#c8b399
Shade 2#948470
Shade 3#63584a
Shade 4#362f27
Shade 5#0f0c08

Colours that work with Bisque

Complementary, triadic and analogous partners, rotated in OKLCh so they keep the same apparent brightness.

#d1ecff
#c2f4f1
#f4e0ff
#ffdecf
#efebc4

Closest CSS names

bisqueexact match
blanchedalmondΔEok 0.018
moccasinΔEok 0.019
peachpuffΔEok 0.025
antiquewhiteΔEok 0.025
navajowhiteΔEok 0.028