Butter #FFFF81

About this color

#FFFF81 is a very light, vivid yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 98%, its chroma 0.148 and its hue 109°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Butter. Black text reads best on it, at 19.87:1.

Colors that go with Butter

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

Color palettes with Butter

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

• Lemonade Heatwave

Similar named colors

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

• Faded Yellow #FEFF7F ΔE 0.003
• Banana #FFFF7E ΔE 0.003
• Pale Yellow #FFFF84 ΔE 0.003
• Custard #FFFD78 ΔE 0.008
• Butter Yellow #FFFD74 ΔE 0.011
• Pastel Yellow #FFFE71 ΔE 0.014
• Manilla #FFFA86 ΔE 0.015
• Straw #FCF679 ΔE 0.023

More about Butter

• Shades of yellow
• What yellow means

How to make Butter

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.

• 2 parts white
• 1 part yellow

Recipe result: #FEF07D, a difference of ΔE 0.038 from Butter. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make yellow? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Butter 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 Butter

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)

   #FFFF81

   oklch(97.5% 0.148 108.9)

2. Step 100

   100

   #ECEEC3

   oklch(93.7% 0.056 109.6)

3. Step 200

   200

   #DEDF8B

   oklch(88.4% 0.106 109)

4. Step 300

   300

   #CBC800

   oklch(80.9% 0.175 108.7)

5. Step 400

   400

   #A9A700

   oklch(70.7% 0.153 108.9)

6. Step 500

   500

   #918F00

   oklch(63.1% 0.137 108.8)

7. Step 600

   600

   #7A7800

   oklch(55.6% 0.12 108.6)

8. Step 700

   700

   #666500

   oklch(49.1% 0.107 109.1)

9. Step 800

   800

   #535200

   oklch(42.6% 0.092 108.9)

10. Step 900

    900

    #454400

    oklch(37.5% 0.081 108.8)

11. Step 950

    950

    #292800

    oklch(26.9% 0.058 108.3)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Butter 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.