Alice Blue
An extremely soft and airy blue
Alice Blue is an extremely pale, desaturated tint with subtle grey undertones. Because it offers a softer alternative to standard white, it serves as an excellent UI background that reduces eye strain while maintaining legibility. Black text provides high contrast here, ensuring WCAG AA compliance for small body copy. The hex code for this neutral shade is #f0f8ff.
About Alice Blue
Whisper of frost on a milk-white kitchen wall
What does alice blue mean?
People often link this tint with fresh snow, clean cotton, and nurseries, since a barely-blue white reads as clean, cold, and gentle. Its near-white lightness and tiny saturation make it feel airy and faint, more like cool light in a room than a color on a wall.
Where you see alice blue
- fresh snowfall
- powdered sugar
- porcelain bathtubs
- milk glass
- frost on a window
- pale blue cotton swaddles
What it works for
It works well as a page background or base tint when plain white feels too stark and a true blue feels too loud.
What colors go with alice blue?
Crimson #dc143cA cold near-white sharpens crimson without making the pair feel heavy.Terracotta #e2725bWarm clay tones keep all that pale blue from reading as cold.Dusty Rose #b56f76Both colors sit low in saturation, so the pair looks soft instead of washed out.Marigold #fcc006One small block of marigold gives the icy base a warm focal point.Charcoal #36454fIts faint blue cast keeps an all-neutral pairing from turning flat.
Questions about Alice Blue
What is the hex code for Alice Blue?
Alice Blue is #f0f8ff. In RGB that is rgb(240, 248, 255), in HSL hsl(208, 100%, 97%) and in CMYK 6%, 3%, 0%, 0%.
Is Alice Blue readable on white or black?
Alice Blue has a 1.07:1 contrast ratio on white and 19.57:1 on black. WCAG asks for 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, so on white it is too faint for text and on black it works for body text. Try other pairs in the contrast checker.