Buff #FEF69E

About this color

#FEF69E is a very light, moderately saturated yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 96%, its chroma 0.109 and its hue 104°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Buff. Black text reads best on it, at 18.89:1.

Colors that go with Buff

Matches found by rotating Buff around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Buff

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Buff, closest first.

• Lime Slice
• Clementine Grove
• Kumquat Peel
• Mandarin Tonic
• Ultraviolet Afterhours
• Dune Heat
• Lemonade Heatwave
• Pomelo and Mandarin

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Buff, with their ΔE distance.

• Dark Cream #FFF39A ΔE 0.007
• Parchment #FEFCAF ΔE 0.020
• Light Beige #FFFEB6 ΔE 0.029
• Creme #FFFFB6 ΔE 0.030
• Manilla #FFFA86 ΔE 0.030
• Light Tan #FBEEAC ΔE 0.031
• Light Khaki #E6F2A2 ΔE 0.035
• Straw #FCF679 ΔE 0.039

More about Buff

• Shades of yellow
• What yellow means

How to make Buff

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 3 parts white
• 1 part yellow

Recipe result: #FDF59A, a difference of ΔE 0.004 from Buff. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make yellow? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Buff in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Buff

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 50.

1. Step 50

   50 (this color)

   #FEF69E

   oklch(96% 0.109 103.8)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EEECCD

   oklch(93.7% 0.041 104.1)

3. Step 200

   200

   #E1DCA0

   oklch(88.4% 0.078 103.9)

4. Step 300

   300

   #D0C44C

   oklch(80.8% 0.14 103.6)

5. Step 400

   400

   #B1A400

   oklch(70.7% 0.149 103.9)

6. Step 500

   500

   #988C00

   oklch(63.1% 0.133 103.5)

7. Step 600

   600

   #7F7600

   oklch(55.6% 0.118 104.3)

8. Step 700

   700

   #6B6300

   oklch(49.2% 0.104 104)

9. Step 800

   800

   #585100

   oklch(42.8% 0.09 103.8)

10. Step 900

    900

    #494300

    oklch(37.7% 0.08 103.8)

11. Step 950

    950

    #2B2700

    oklch(26.9% 0.057 103.7)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Buff with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.