Photo in the color Ivory
Pictured: Ivory, the closest color we have a photo of (#FFFFF0)
rgb(253, 255, 245)
#FDFFF5

Milk #FDFFF5 RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Milk (#FDFFF5) is a neutral white. In RGB it is made of 99% red, 100% green and 96% blue (R 253, G 255, B 245). The green channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 72°, 100% saturation and 98% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.990, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 1% cyan, 0% magenta, 4% yellow and 0% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a neutral color. It goes well with warm oranges and reds for contrast. For a calm, matching look, use nearby cool tones.

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Milk color codes

#FDFFF5 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #FDFFF5 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(253, 255, 245) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(72, 100%, 98%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(72, 4%, 100%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(72 96% 0%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(1%, 0%, 4%, 0%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(99.58% 0.0133 115.82) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(99.58% -0.0058 0.0119) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(99.64% -1.97 4.55) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(99.64% 4.96 113.42) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.9936 0.9997 0.9642) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.9275 0.99 1.0061) Valid CSS
Decimal 16646133 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.9900. Nearest web-safe color: #FFFFFF.

Mix Milk with other colors

See what #FDFFF5 makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintMilk and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightMilk and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintMilk and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalMilk blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Milk in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

WhereCodeCopy
CSS variable--milk: #FDFFF5;
Sass variable$milk: #FDFFF5;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-milk: #FDFFF5; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'milk': '#FDFFF5' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.992, green: 1, blue: 0.961)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.992, green: 1, blue: 0.961, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="milk">#FFFDFFF5</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFFDFFF5)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #FDFFF5 (20.80:1, AAA). Here is how #FDFFF5 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.01:1 on white
APCA Lc 0
Fails AATry #76786F
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
20.80:1 on black
APCA Lc -107
AAA

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Milk

#FDFFF5 next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

#FDFFF5 has almost no hue, so it looks much the same with every type of color blindness. Only its lightness counts. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Milk

Why milk looks white

Milk gets its white look from tiny drops of fat and small clumps of protein called casein micelles. Both scatter light. The fat carries a little carotene, so milk from Jersey and Guernsey cows can look golden. Skim milk has lost most of its fat and can look slightly blue. The Wikipedia article on milk explains this.

Where the code comes from

Wikipedia's alphabetical list of colors gives Milk as #FDFFF5, the same as ours, but cites no source for it. The code is a very pale white with a hint of yellow green. It is close to ivory, #FFFFF0, and much lighter than cream. A near twin is lotion.

Milk in a user interface

A sample app screen with #FDFFF5 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #FDFFF5 as it is. On the light theme, #FDFFF5 is too hard to read as text (1.01:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #76786F there (4.48:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Milk

These schemes turn the hue of #FDFFF5 around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#FDFFF5#F7F5FF

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#FFFCF5this#FDFFF5#F8FFF5

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#FDFFF5#F5FDFF#FFF5FD

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#FDFFF5#F5F8FF#FCF5FF

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#FDFFF5#F5FFF7#F7F5FF#FFF5FD

Square

Four hues 90° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#FDFFF5#F5FFFC#F7F5FF#FFF5F8

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#526600#94B900#CFFF0D#DFFF60#F0FFB3

Gradients with Milk

Four CSS gradients made from #FDFFF5. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #FFFFFD, #FDFFF5);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FDFFF5, #474844);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FFFCF5, #FDFFF5, #F8FFF5);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FDFFF5, #F9FEFA, #F5FDFF);

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Shades, tints and tones of Milk

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Milk sits at step 50. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FDFFF5
  2. 100
    ECEDE9
  3. 200
    DADBD5
  4. 300
    C0C2BA
  5. 400
    A2A49B
  6. 500
    85877E
  7. 600
    6B6D64
  8. 700
    55564F
  9. 800
    42433D
  10. 900
    30312C
  11. 950
    1D1D1B

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #FDFFF5 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 9016 Traffic white#F7FBF5, nearly the same (ΔE 1.4)Tailwind CSSamber-50 #FFFBEB, nearly the same (ΔE 1.3)CSS color namesivory #FFFFF0, nearly the same (ΔE 0.7)

ΔE is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of white or search the color library.