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#F0E3C7

White Chocolate #F0E3C7 RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

White Chocolate (#F0E3C7) is a slightly tinted white. In RGB it is made of 94% red, 89% green and 78% blue (R 240, G 227, B 199). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 41Β°, 58% saturation and 86% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.776, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 5% magenta, 17% yellow and 6% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a warm color. It goes well with cool blues and greens for contrast. For a matching look, use nearby warm tones.

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White Chocolate color codes

#F0E3C7 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #F0E3C7 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(240, 227, 199) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(41, 58%, 86%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(41, 17%, 94%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(41 78% 6%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 5%, 17%, 6%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(91.89% 0.0396 86.06) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(91.89% 0.0027 0.0395) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(90.74% 1.26 15.41) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(90.74% 15.46 85.32) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.9324 0.892 0.7921) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.7371 0.7759 0.6513) Valid CSS
Decimal 15786951 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.7759. Nearest web-safe color: #FFCCCC.

Mix White Chocolate with other colors

See what #F0E3C7 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.

PaintWhite Chocolate and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightWhite Chocolate and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintWhite Chocolate and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalWhite Chocolate blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use White Chocolate in your code

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

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CSS variable--white-chocolate: #F0E3C7;
Sass variable$white-chocolate: #F0E3C7;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-white-chocolate: #F0E3C7; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'white-chocolate': '#F0E3C7' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.941, green: 0.89, blue: 0.78)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.941, green: 0.89, blue: 0.78, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="white_chocolate">#FFF0E3C7</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFF0E3C7)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #F0E3C7 (16.52:1, AAA). Here is how #F0E3C7 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.27:1 on white
APCA Lc 14
Fails AATry #81765C
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
16.52:1 on black
APCA Lc -90
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 White Chocolate

#F0E3C7 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

#F0E3C7 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 White Chocolate

Why the candy is not pure white

White chocolate is made from cocoa butter, sugar and milk solids. It has none of the dark cocoa solids that color regular chocolate. The cocoa butter gives it a soft yellow tint, which is why it looks closer to ivory than to paper. Since 2004, American rules have said it must hold at least 20 percent cocoa butter.

Most writers count NestlΓ©'s Galak bar from 1936 as the first white chocolate sold in shops. In the United Kingdom it was sold as Milkybar.

Two codes for one name

The site's #F0E3C7 comes from an open color name list. Wikipedia's shades of white article uses #EDE6D6, which it took from Encycolorpedia. The codes do not match: #F0E3C7 is warmer and more yellow, like a real bar. Similar soft whites are vanilla and eggshell.

White Chocolate in a user interface

A sample app screen with #F0E3C7 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #F0E3C7 as it is. On the light theme, #F0E3C7 is too hard to read as text (1.27:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #81765C there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for White Chocolate

These schemes turn the hue of #F0E3C7 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#F0E3C7#C7D4F0

Analogous

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

Open palette
#F0CFC7this#F0E3C7#E9F0C7

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#F0E3C7#C7F0E3#E3C7F0

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#F0E3C7#C7E9F0#CFC7F0

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#F0E3C7#D4F0C7#C7D4F0#E3C7F0

Square

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

Open palette
this#F0E3C7#C7F0CF#C7D4F0#F0C7E9

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#503E16#927027#CC9F40#DDC081#EFE1C3

Gradients with White Chocolate

Four CSS gradients made from #F0E3C7. 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, #FCF9F4, #F0E3C7);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F0E3C7, #433F36);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #F0CFC7, #F0E3C7, #E9F0C7);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #F0E3C7, #DDEAD5, #C7F0E3);

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Shades, tints and tones of White Chocolate

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)

White Chocolate sits at step 100. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FBF6ED
  2. 100
    F0E3C7
  3. 200
    E2DAC9
  4. 300
    CAC0AA
  5. 400
    AEA289
  6. 500
    91856B
  7. 600
    766B52
  8. 700
    5E543E
  9. 800
    4A412F
  10. 900
    363022
  11. 950
    201D15

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #F0E3C7 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 9001 Cream#EFEBDC, very close (Ξ”E 2.8)Tailwind CSSorange-100 #FFEDD5, very close (Ξ”E 3.6)CSS color namesbisque #FFE4C4, very close (Ξ”E 2.1)

Ξ”E 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 (Ξ”E in OKLab). Browse all shades of white or search the color library.