Tailwind CSS v3 color

Tailwind stone-200 #E7E5E4

Tailwind CSS v3's stone-200 is #E7E5E4. It is an off-white in the neutral family. In OKLCH it sits at lightness 0.923 with chroma 0.003, too low for hue to matter. The nearest CSS named color is gainsboro (#DCDCDC), ΔE2000 2.3 away.

Relative luminance: 0.7863
OKLCH L · C · h: 0.923 · 0.003 · 48.7
Best text: Black 16.72:1
Hue family: Neutral

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#E7E5E4 color codes

HEX: #E7E5E4
RGB: rgb(231, 229, 228)
HSL: hsl(20, 6%, 90%)
OKLCH: oklch(0.923 0.003 48.7)
OKLab: oklab(0.923 0.002 0.002)
CIELAB (D65): L* 91.07, a* 0.50, b* 0.72
XYZ (D65): X 74.98, Y 78.63, Z 84.61
CMYK (naive): cmyk(0%, 1%, 1%, 9%)

CIELAB and XYZ use the D65 white point; CSS lab() uses D50, so paste the OKLCH or HEX value into stylesheets. CMYK here is a plain formula with no press profile.

Legibility

Contrast: is #E7E5E4 accessible?

Black text on it reaches 16.72:1, passing AAA. White text fails at 1.25:1.

WCAG 2 gives the same ratio whichever color is the text; APCA does not, so its Lc changes sign and size with polarity.

Open the Contrast System

Black text on it

16.72:1
- AA passes
- AA large passes
- AAA passes
- APCA Lc +90
White text on it

1.25:1
- AA fails
- AA large fails
- AAA fails
- APCA Lc −14
Text is here, unreadable at 1.25:1
As text on black

16.72:1
- AA passes
- AA large passes
- AAA passes
- APCA Lc −91
As text on white

1.25:1
- AA fails
- AA large fails
- AAA fails
- APCA Lc +12
Text is here, unreadable at 1.25:1

Nearest versions that pass 4.5:1

For text on white

#787675 4.51:1

Darkening its OKLCH lightness from 0.92 to 0.57 reaches 4.51:1 on white, keeping the hue.

Compare both in the Contrast System
For text on black

#E7E5E4 16.72:1

It already reaches 16.72:1 on black, so no change is needed.

Checking another pair? Use the Contrast Checker.

Studio

Adjust #E7E5E4 live

Move lightness, chroma and hue in OKLCH, or drag on the map. The map is every lightness and chroma at the current hue: sRGB inside the solid area, Display P3 out to the dashed line.

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Scale

Shades and tints of #E7E5E4

Eleven OKLCH lightness steps at this hue, each with its contrast against white and black. #E7E5E4 sits at step 100.

50#F6F5F4

White
1.08
Black
19.28
100This color#E7E5E4

White
1.25
Black
16.72
200#D9D7D6

White
1.43
Black
14.64
300#BFBDBC

White
1.87
Black
11.22
400#A3A1A0

White
2.57
Black
8.16
500#878685

White
3.63
Black
5.77
600#706E6D

White
5.07
Black
4.14
700#595857

White
7.09
Black
2.95
800#413F3F

White
10.46
Black
2.00
900#2A2928

White
14.52
Black
1.44
950#171615

White
18.07
Black
1.16

Under each step, white and black text on it; a bold figure passes 4.5:1.

Tailwind CSS v3 stone scale

The real Tailwind palette, for comparison with the computed ramp above.

50#FAFAF9
White
1.04
Black
20.10
100#F5F5F4
White
1.09
Black
19.24
200This color#E7E5E4

White
1.25
Black
16.72
300#D6D3D1
White
1.48
Black
14.09
400#A8A29E
White
2.52
Black
8.32
500#78716C
White
4.79
Black
4.37
600#57534E
White
7.62
Black
2.75
700#44403C
White
10.27
Black
2.04
800#292524
White
15.16
Black
1.38
900#1C1917
White
17.48
Black
1.20
950#0C0A09
White
19.75
Black
1.06

Gamut

How vivid #E7E5E4 can get

A gray has no hue, so no gamut holds a more vivid version of #E7E5E4: more chroma would make it another color.

sRGB
Display P3
Rec. 2020
Dominant wavelength

OKLCH chroma: 0.003
sRGB edge: No hue
Display P3 edge: No hue
Rec. 2020 edge: No hue
Dominant wavelength: None, near white
Excitation purity: 1%
Chromaticity: x 0.3147, y 0.3301

Mixing

Mixing #E7E5E4

Each row is the same mix worked out in a different space, with the halfway color at its end. sRGB, which older CSS gradients use, can sag gray or dark in the middle; OKLab keeps the lightness steps even; OKLCH holds chroma and hue as it goes.

White #FFFFFF

sRGB50%#F3F2F2
OKLab50%#F3F2F1
OKLCH50%#F3F2F1

Black #000000

sRGB50%#747372
OKLab50%#595858
OKLCH50%#595858

In CSS

/* A gradient and a mix, worked out in OKLCH */
background: linear-gradient(in oklch, #e7e5e4, white);
color: color-mix(in oklch, #e7e5e4 50%, white);

In use

#E7E5E4 in an interface

A button, a link, a heading, a focused field, an icon and a chart line in this color, on a light page and a dark one. Each check is a WCAG 2 contrast minimum: 1.4.3 for text, 1.4.11 for the rest.

Light page

Button labelText, 4.5:116.72:1 Passes
Link and body-size textText, 4.5:11.25:1 Fails
Large headingLarge text, 3:11.25:1 Fails
Icons, borders and focus ringsNon-text, 3:11.25:1 Fails

For text on this page, the nearest shade that passes is #787675 4.51:1

Dark page

Button labelText, 4.5:116.72:1 Passes
Link and body-size textText, 4.5:114.92:1 Passes
Large headingLarge text, 3:114.92:1 Passes
Icons, borders and focus ringsNon-text, 3:114.92:1 Passes

Color vision

How #E7E5E4 looks with color blindness

As a neutral it barely changes under any simulation, ΔE2000 1.3 at most.

Simulated with Machado et al. (2009) at full severity, in linear light.

Simulate a whole page What each type sees

Protanopia

No working red (long-wavelength) cones

#E6E5E4 ΔE2000 0.5

Imperceptible

Reads as off-white
Deuteranopia

No working green (medium-wavelength) cones

#E6E6E4 ΔE2000 1.3

Very close

Reads as off-white
Tritanopia

No working blue (short-wavelength) cones

#E8E5E5 ΔE2000 0.8

Imperceptible

Reads as off-white
Achromatopsia

No cone color vision; lightness only

#E5E5E5 ΔE2000 1.0

Very close

Reads as off-white

Pairing check

A near-neutral has no complementary hue to pair with, so tell it apart from neighboring grays by lightness contrast alone.

Harmony

Color harmonies for #E7E5E4

A neutral has no hue to rotate, so every harmony collapses back to the same gray. Pair it with an accent color instead.

Or pair it by lightness: steps of its own scale as text on it, and what each can carry.

Build a lightness scale in Harmony Studio

Step 950 #171615 · 14.39:1

Body text, AAA
Step 700 #595857 · 5.65:1

Body text, AA
Step 300 #BFBDBC · 1.49:1

Decoration only, under 3:1

Code

Design tokens

Ready-to-paste tokens in six formats. Rename them to fit your system.

CSS custom property

:root {
  --color-stone-200: #e7e5e4;
}

Tailwind config

// tailwind.config.js — already built in as stone-200;
// pin the v3 value explicitly like this:
module.exports = {
  theme: {
    extend: {
      colors: {
        stone: { 200: '#e7e5e4' },
      },
    },
  },
};

Tailwind v4 theme

/* app.css — Tailwind CSS v4 */
@import "tailwindcss";

@theme {
  /* v4 has its own stone-200; this pins the v3 value. */
  --color-stone-200: oklch(0.923 0.003 48.7);
}

Design token (W3C DTCG)

{
  "color": {
    "stone-200": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [0.9059, 0.898, 0.8941],
        "hex": "#e7e5e4"
      },
      "$description": "Tailwind CSS v3 stone-200"
    }
  }
}

SwiftUI color

import SwiftUI

enum Palette {
    static let stone200 = Color(.sRGB, red: 0.906, green: 0.898, blue: 0.894, opacity: 1)
}

Jetpack Compose color

import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color

object Palette {
    val Stone200 = Color(0xFFE7E5E4)
}

Matches

The nearest match in each system

The closest CSS name, Tailwind shade, RAL Classic paint and Crayola crayon by ΔE2000; under 2 is hard to tell apart side by side. RAL and Crayola values approximate physical colors.

Tools

Open #E7E5E4 in the tools

Each opens over this page. More colors live in the Color Library, and every color page is listed on the hub.