Off White Color Codes

Off White is a very light, vivid yellow with the hex code #FFFFE4, RGB values of 255, 255, 228 and an HSL value of hsl(60, 100%, 95%).

HEX	#FFFFE4
RGB	255, 255, 228
HSL	hsl(60, 100%, 95%)
HSV	60°, 11%, 100%
CMYK	0%, 0%, 11%, 0%
LAB	99.37, -4.48, 12.92
CIELCHuv	99.37, 20.27, 85.87°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 5807 C ΔE 12.4 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: lightyellow ΔE 2.0

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

Off White Color Hex Code

The Off White color hex code is #FFFFE4. Those six digits are three pairs, FF for red, FF for green and E4 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#FFFFE4

Off White Color RGB Code

The Off White RGB code is rgb(255, 255, 228). Red carries the most light at 255 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(255, 255, 228)

Off White Color HSV Code

The Off White HSV code is 60°, 11%, 100%. Read it as a hue of 60 degrees, 11% saturation and 100% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

60°, 11%, 100%

Off White Color CIELChuv Code

The Off White CIELCHuv code is 99.37, 20.27, 85.87°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 99 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 20 is how far it sits from grey.

99.37, 20.27, 85.87°

Tonal scale

What are Off 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 Off White Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #FFFFE4. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Directly opposite sits #E4E4FF, a very 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

#FFF2E4 and #F2FFE4 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

#E4FFFF and #FFE4FF 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: #E4F2FF and #F2E4FF. 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 #E4E4FF, and #E4FFF2 with #FFE4F2. 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

1.02:1

1.02

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

20.68:1

20.68

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 1.02:1 against white, Off 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 20.68:1. 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 Off White against another color →

Color vision

How Off 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

#FFFFEB

Off White shifts slightly here. ΔE 3.5

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

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#FFFFED

Off White shifts slightly here. ΔE 4.6

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

#FFF0F1

Off White shifts noticeably here. ΔE 15.5

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

#FDFDFD

Off White shifts noticeably here. ΔE 13.7

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

Off White is stable under the common forms of color blindness: to a deuteranope it reads as #FFFFED, a shift of only ΔE 4.6, which is close to imperceptible. The widest shift is under tritanopia, at ΔE 15.5. 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 Off White in code

:root {
  --off-white: #FFFFE4;
}

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

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'off-white': '#FFFFE4',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let offWhite = Color(
    red: 1.000,
    green: 1.000,
    blue: 0.894
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="off_white">#FFFFE4</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const offWhite = Color(0xFFFFFFE4);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Off White Color?

Off 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 99 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Off White Color?

The closest CSS keyword is LightYellow (#FFFFE0), though it is not a match: Delta-E 2.0 means the difference is visible side by side. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 5807 C at #E0DDBC. The name Off White comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Off White Color Made?

On a screen Off White is made by additive light: 255 red, 255 green and 228 blue out of 255, with red leading and 228 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 0%, 11%, 0%. Starting from the pure hue at 60 degrees, Off White is a tint, so it is that hue with white added.