Cream Color Codes
Cream is a very light, vivid yellow with the hex code #FFFDD0, RGB values of 255, 253, 208 and an HSL value of hsl(57, 100%, 91%).
| HEX | #FFFDD0 |
|---|---|
| RGB | 255, 253, 208 |
| HSL | hsl(57, 100%, 91%) |
| HSV | 57°, 18%, 100% |
| CMYK | 0%, 1%, 18%, 0% |
| LAB | 98.46, -6.49, 21.83 |
| CIELCHuv | 98.46, 33.29, 83.84° |
- Nearest Pantone
- PMS 607 C ΔE 6.7 · approximate
- Nearest CSS name
-
lemonchiffonΔE 1.4
Source Wikipedia, List of colors (cites Maerz and Paul)
Cream Color Hex Code
The Cream color hex code is #FFFDD0. Those six digits are three pairs, FF for red, FD for green and D0 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.
#FFFDD0
Cream Color RGB Code
The Cream RGB code is rgb(255, 253, 208). Red carries the most light at 255 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.
rgb(255, 253, 208)
Cream Color HSV Code
The Cream HSV code is 57°, 18%, 100%. Read it as a hue of 57 degrees, 18% saturation and 100% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.
57°, 18%, 100%
Cream Color CIELChuv Code
The Cream CIELCHuv code is 98.46, 33.29, 83.84°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 98 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 33 is how far it sits from grey.
98.46, 33.29, 83.84°
Tonal scale
What are Cream 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
Palettes
What are Cream Color Palette Codes?
Each of these is a hue rotation from #FFFDD0. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.
Complementary
Directly opposite sits #D0D2FF, a light, vivid blue. No other pairing separates two hues further, so this is the one to reach for when a single element has to win attention. Both are saturated, so give the complement much less area than the base or the two will fight.
Analogous
#FFE6D0 and #EAFFD0 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
#D0FFFD and #FDD0FF 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: #D0EAFF and #E6D0FF. 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 #D0D2FF, and #D0FFE6 with #FFD0EA. 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.
Accessibility
Contrast checker: is Cream accessible?
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
1.04:11.04
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
20.21:120.21
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 1.04:1 against white, Cream 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 20.21:1. It is a highly saturated color, so it will dominate anything it sits beside. Give it space rather than surrounding it with other strong colors.
Color vision
How Cream 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#FEFEDC
Cream shifts slightly here. ΔE 5.6
No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.
Deuteranopia
About 1% of men#FEFEDF
Cream shifts slightly here. ΔE 7.1
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#FFE5E7
Cream changes substantially here. ΔE 25.7
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#FBFBFB
Cream shifts noticeably here. ΔE 22.8
No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.
To a deuteranope, the most common form, Cream reads as #FEFEDF. That is a shift of ΔE 7.1, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. The widest shift is under tritanopia, at ΔE 25.7. 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.
Snippets
Using Cream in code
:root {
--cream: #FFFDD0;
}
.example {
color: var(--cream);
}// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
extend: {
colors: {
'cream': '#FFFDD0',
},
},
}// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let cream = Color(
red: 1.000,
green: 0.992,
blue: 0.816
)<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="cream">#FFFDD0</color>// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const cream = Color(0xFFFFFDD0);