CSS named colour

Papaya Whip

#ffefd5

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

RGB
rgb(255 239 213)
HSL
37°, 100%, 92%
OKLCh
95.8% 0.038 80.0

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Papaya Whip in every format

Web & CSSThe everyday formats for stylesheets and design tools.

Hex#ffefd5
RGBrgb(255 239 213)
RGB legacyrgb(255, 239, 213)
RGB percentrgb(100% 93.73% 83.53%)
HSLhsl(37.1 100% 91.8%)
HSL legacyhsl(37.1, 100%, 91.8%)
HSV / HSBhsv(37.1, 16.5%, 100%)
HWBhwb(37.1 83.5% 0%)
Nearest namepapayawhip
CMYKcmyk(0%, 6.3%, 16.5%, 0%)Naive conversion. Real print work needs an ICC profile.

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

OKLChoklch(95.808% 0.03826 80.032)Modern CSS colour space for even palettes — better than HSL when building scales.
OKLaboklab(95.808% 0.00662 0.03768)
CIE LChlch(95.229% 14.894 80.186)
CIE Lablab(95.229% 2.539 14.676)
Display P3color(display-p3 0.9892 0.9394 0.8464)
Rec. 2020color(rec2020 0.97 0.9334 0.8299)
srgb-linearcolor(srgb-linear 1 0.8632 0.6654)Light-linear sRGB — the same numbers a shader wants for maths.
CIE XYZ (D65)color(xyz-d65 0.8411 0.878 0.7547)

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

GLSL vec3 — sRGBvec3(1.0, 0.937, 0.835)Encoded values. Use when writing straight to the framebuffer.
GLSL vec3 — linearvec3(1.0, 0.863, 0.665)Light-linear values. Use for lighting, blending and mixing.
GLSL vec4 — sRGBvec4(1.0, 0.937, 0.835, 1.0)
GLSL vec4 — linearvec4(1.0, 0.863, 0.665, 1.0)
GLSL ivec3ivec3(255, 239, 213)
HLSL float3 — sRGBfloat3(1.0, 0.937, 0.835)
HLSL float3 — linearfloat3(1.0, 0.863, 0.665)
HLSL float4 — sRGBfloat4(1.0, 0.937, 0.835, 1.0)
HLSL half4 — sRGBhalf4(1.0, 0.937, 0.835, 1.0)
WGSL vec3f — sRGBvec3f(1.0, 0.937, 0.835)
WGSL vec4f — sRGBvec4f(1.0, 0.937, 0.835, 1.0)
WGSL vec3<f32> — linearvec3<f32>(1.0, 0.863, 0.665)

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

Unity Colornew Color(1.0f, 0.937f, 0.835f, 1.0f)Color for everyday scripting (0–1). Color32 when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unity Color32new Color32(255, 239, 213, 255)
Unreal FLinearColorFLinearColor(1.0f, 0.8632f, 0.6654f, 1.0f)FLinearColor for materials and lighting. FColor when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unreal FColorFColor(255, 239, 213, 255)Whole numbers from 0 to 255 — use when an API asks for FColor, not FLinearColor.
Godot ColorColor(1, 0.937, 0.835, 1)
Flutter ColorColor(0xFFFFEFD5)Packed ARGB, so alpha comes first.
Android ColorColor.rgb(255, 239, 213)
SwiftUI ColorColor(red: 1, green: 0.937, blue: 0.835)
UIKit UIColorUIColor(red: 1, green: 0.937, blue: 0.835, alpha: 1)

Raw valuesPacked integers and plain arrays.

0x hex0xFFEFD5
0x hex (ARGB)0xFFFFEFD5
Array 0–1[1, 0.937, 0.835]
Array 0–255[255, 239, 213]
Decimal integer16773077

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.

PairingWCAG 2 ratioLevelAPCASuitable for
Papaya Whip on white1.13:1FailLc 0Not usable for text
Papaya Whip on black18.56:1AAALc 99Body text at any size

Papaya Whip text on a white background

Papaya Whip text on a black background

White text on Papaya Whip

Black text on Papaya Whip

Tonal scale

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

  • 50#fff6e3
  • 100#f8ecd8
  • 200#e8dbc5
  • 300#d2c4ad
  • 400#b6a790
  • 500#988971
  • 600#7d7059
  • 700#655945
  • 800#514634
  • 900#403626
  • 950#261e11

Tints and shades

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

  • Tint 1#fff2dc
  • Tint 2#fff4e3
  • Tint 3#fff7ea
  • Tint 4#fffaf1
  • Tint 5#fffcf8
  • Shade 1#c8bba7
  • Shade 2#948a7b
  • Shade 3#635c51
  • Shade 4#36322b
  • Shade 5#0f0d0a

Colours that work with Papaya Whip

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

  • #e3f2ff
  • #d4fafb
  • #fde9ff
  • #ffeadb
  • #f2f4d7

Closest CSS names

  • papayawhipexact match
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  • antiquewhiteΔEok 0.014
  • beigeΔEok 0.018
  • cornsilkΔEok 0.022
  • linenΔEok 0.022