Navajo White Color Codes

Navajo White is a very light, vivid orange with the hex code #FFDEAD, RGB values of 255, 222, 173 and an HSL value of hsl(36, 100%, 84%).

HEX	#FFDEAD
RGB	255, 222, 173
HSL	hsl(36, 100%, 84%)
HSV	36°, 32%, 100%
CMYK	0%, 13%, 32%, 0%
LAB	90.10, 4.51, 28.27
CIELCHuv	90.10, 45.33, 58.44°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 155 C ΔE 3.6 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: navajowhite ΔE 0.0

Source CSS Color Module Level 4 keyword 'NavajoWhite'

Navajo White Color Hex Code

The Navajo White color hex code is #FFDEAD. Those six digits are three pairs, FF for red, DE for green and AD for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#FFDEAD

Navajo White Color RGB Code

The Navajo White RGB code is rgb(255, 222, 173). Red carries the most light at 255 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(255, 222, 173)

Navajo White Color HSV Code

The Navajo White HSV code is 36°, 32%, 100%. Read it as a hue of 36 degrees, 32% saturation and 100% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

36°, 32%, 100%

Navajo White Color CIELChuv Code

The Navajo White CIELCHuv code is 90.10, 45.33, 58.44°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 90 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 45 is how far it sits from grey.

90.10, 45.33, 58.44°

Tonal scale

What are Navajo White 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 Navajo White Color Palette Codes?

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

Complementary

Directly opposite sits #ADCEFF, a light, vivid 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. Both are saturated, so give the complement much less area than the base or the two will fight.

Analogous

#FFB5AD and #F7FFAD 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

#ADFFDE and #DEADFF 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: #ADF7FF and #B5ADFF. 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 #ADCEFF, and #ADFFB5 with #FFADF7. 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

1.29:1

1.29

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

16.30:1

16.30

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 1.29:1 against white, Navajo White 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 16.30:1. 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.

Check Navajo White against another color →

Color vision

How Navajo White 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

#F1F1BA

Navajo White shifts noticeably here. ΔE 13.8

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

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#F3F6BD

Navajo White shifts noticeably here. ΔE 15.5

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

#FDC4C6

Navajo White changes substantially here. ΔE 27.4

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

#E3E3E3

Navajo White changes substantially here. ΔE 28.6

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, Navajo White reads as #F3F6BD. That is a shift of ΔE 15.5, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. 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 27.4. 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 Navajo White in code

:root {
  --navajo-white: #FFDEAD;
}

.example {
  color: var(--navajo-white);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'navajo-white': '#FFDEAD',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let navajoWhite = Color(
    red: 1.000,
    green: 0.871,
    blue: 0.678
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="navajo_white">#FFDEAD</color>

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

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Navajo White Color?

Navajo White reads as lightness. It is light enough to sit behind text rather than compete with it, and at 100% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 90 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Navajo White Color?

In CSS you can write NavajoWhite instead of the hex and get the same color: the two are 0.0 apart, which no eye resolves. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 155 C at #F4DBAA. The name Navajo White comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Navajo White Color Made?

On a screen Navajo White is made by additive light: 255 red, 222 green and 173 blue out of 255, with red leading and 173 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 13%, 32%, 0%. Starting from the pure hue at 36 degrees, Navajo White is a tint, so it is that hue with white added.