CSS named color

Bisque #FFE4C4

Bisque is light vivid orange. Below: every color format, WCAG contrast against black and white, its tints, shades and tones, and the harmonies that pair with it.

Color values

Contrast & accessibility

WCAG contrast ratio of Bisque used as a foreground on white and black backgrounds.

Aa The quick brown fox
1.22:1

On white

AA ✕ AAA ✕ AA Large ✕
Aa The quick brown fox
17.15:1

On black

AA ✓ AAA ✓ AA Large ✓

Tints, shades & tones

Systematic variations of Bisque — click any swatch to copy its hex.

Tintsmixed toward white
Shadesmixed toward black
Tonesmixed toward gray

Simulated colour vision

How Bisque reads under the four common colour-vision deficiencies, using the standard Machado (2009) matrices at full severity. A simulation, not a measurement of any one person's vision; the point is whether this colour still does its job when hue drops out.

Typical vision#FFE4C4

Tailwind-style ramp

Eleven steps from 50 to 950 with the hue and saturation of Bisque held and only lightness stepped. Computed, not curated: the 500 step sits closest to the source, which is where Tailwind puts a brand colour.

Color harmonies

Palettes built from Bisque by rotating its hue. Each swatch links to its closest named color.

Use Bisque in your stack

Tailwind (arbitrary value)

Works for any property: text-[#ffe4c4], border-[#ffe4c4].

CSS custom property

Reference it anywhere with var(--color).

Build a full theme

Turn Bisque into a complete shadcn/ui palette — light & dark, contrast-checked, one-command install.

Extract a theme →

Palettes near Bisque

Curated palettes with a role within ΔE 12 of this colour, close enough to read as the same family. Each one is also an installable shadcn/ui theme with measured contrast.

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