Alice Blue (#f0f8ff) is a very light, vivid white. It is a CSS named color, so you can use it in stylesheets as color: aliceblue as well as by its hex code. In RGB it is rgb(240, 248, 255); in HSL, hsl(208, 100%, 97%).
| Hex | #f0f8ff |
|---|---|
| CSS name | aliceblue |
| RGB | rgb(240, 248, 255) |
| HSL | hsl(208, 100%, 97%) |
| CMYK | 6%, 3%, 0%, 0% |
| CSS example | color: #f0f8ff; background-color: rgb(240, 248, 255); |
The hue is calculated at seven exact lightness levels for use in backgrounds, borders, text and hover states. These values are not substituted with nearby named colors.
#f0f8ff is a neutral: it carries little to no hue, so wheel-based schemes like complementary or triadic would simply return the same gray. Neutrals work differently — use the ramp above for backgrounds, borders and text, and pair #f0f8ff with a saturated accent for links, buttons and highlights. Each of these accents reads clearly against #f0f8ff:
On a #f0f8ff background, black text gives the better contrast. WCAG requires 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text (AA), or 7:1 and 4.5:1 for AAA.
| Text color | Contrast ratio | Normal text | Large text |
|---|---|---|---|
| White text (#ffffff) | 1.07:1 | Fails | Fails |
| Black text (#000000) | 19.58:1 | AAA | AAA |
The CSS named colors closest to #f0f8ff:
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