Alabaster Color Codes

Alabaster is a very light, muted orange with the hex code #F3E7DB, RGB values of 243, 231, 219 and an HSL value of hsl(30, 50%, 91%).

HEX	#F3E7DB
RGB	243, 231, 219
HSL	hsl(30, 50%, 91%)
HSV	30°, 10%, 95%
CMYK	0%, 5%, 10%, 5%
LAB	92.27, 2.06, 7.29
CIELCHuv	92.27, 13.08, 54.00°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 427 C ΔE 6.2 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: linen ΔE 3.3

Community source color-name-list, community color-name index

Alabaster Color Hex Code

The Alabaster color hex code is #F3E7DB. Those six digits are three pairs, F3 for red, E7 for green and DB for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#F3E7DB

Alabaster Color RGB Code

The Alabaster RGB code is rgb(243, 231, 219). Red carries the most light at 243 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(243, 231, 219)

Alabaster Color HSV Code

The Alabaster HSV code is 30°, 10%, 95%. Read it as a hue of 30 degrees, 10% saturation and 95% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

30°, 10%, 95%

Alabaster Color CIELChuv Code

The Alabaster CIELCHuv code is 92.27, 13.08, 54.00°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 92 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 13 is how far it sits from grey.

92.27, 13.08, 54.00°

Tonal scale

What are Alabaster Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

Open in the shades & tints generator →

Palettes

What are Alabaster Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #F3E7DB. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Directly opposite sits #DBE7F3, a very light, muted azure blue. No other pairing separates two hues further, so this is the one to reach for when a single element has to win attention. Neither is especially saturated, so this pairing stays calm enough for large areas of both.

Analogous

#F3DBDB and #F3F3DB sit 30 degrees either side. All three share most of their hue, so the set reads as one family instead of three separate decisions. Good for backgrounds and for state variations that should not announce themselves.

Triadic

#DBF3E7 and #E7DBF3 complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #DBF3F3 and #DBDBF3. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #DBE7F3, and #DBF3DB with #F3DBF3. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat the darkest of the four as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

1.22:1

1.22

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Fails	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Fails	Fails
UI component needs 3:1	Fails	n/a

Black background

17.26:1

17.26

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Passes
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

At 1.22:1 against white, Alabaster is a fill color rather than a text color. Use it for surfaces, borders and large display type, and set the copy in ink. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 17.26:1.

Check Alabaster against another color →

Color vision

How Alabaster looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men

actual

#EEEEDE

Alabaster shifts slightly here. ΔE 5.0

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#EFEFDF

Alabaster shifts slightly here. ΔE 5.1

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000

actual

#F2E0E1

Alabaster shifts slightly here. ΔE 7.2

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000

actual

#E9E9E9

Alabaster shifts slightly here. ΔE 7.6

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

Alabaster is stable under the common forms of color blindness: to a deuteranope it reads as #EFEFDF, a shift of only ΔE 5.1, which is close to imperceptible. It sits in the red end of the spectrum, which is exactly where red-green deficiency does its damage. Never pair it with a green of similar lightness to signal a difference in meaning: to a large minority the two become one color. The widest shift is under tritanopia, at ΔE 7.2. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

Simulate a whole palette →

Snippets

Using Alabaster in code

:root {
  --alabaster: #F3E7DB;
}

.example {
  color: var(--alabaster);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'alabaster': '#F3E7DB',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let alabaster = Color(
    red: 0.953,
    green: 0.906,
    blue: 0.859
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="alabaster">#F3E7DB</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const alabaster = Color(0xFFF3E7DB);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Alabaster Color?

Alabaster reads as lightness. It is light enough to sit behind text rather than compete with it, and at 50% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 92 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Alabaster Color?

The closest CSS keyword is Linen (#FAF0E6), though it is not a match: Delta-E 3.3 means the difference is visible side by side. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 427 C at #DDDBD1. The name Alabaster comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Alabaster Color Made?

On a screen Alabaster is made by additive light: 243 red, 231 green and 219 blue out of 255, with red leading and 219 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 5%, 10%, 5%. Starting from the pure hue at 30 degrees, Alabaster is a tint, so it is that hue with white added.