Canary #FDFF63

About this color

#FDFF63 is a very light, vivid yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 97%, its chroma 0.174 and its hue 110°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Canary. Black text reads best on it, at 19.66:1.

Colors that go with Canary

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

Color palettes with Canary

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

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Similar named colors

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

• Lemon #FDFF52 ΔE 0.012
• Pastel Yellow #FFFE71 ΔE 0.013
• Butter Yellow #FFFD74 ΔE 0.017
• Banana Yellow #FAFE4B ΔE 0.017
• Custard #FFFD78 ΔE 0.020
• Canary Yellow #FFFE40 ΔE 0.020
• Banana #FFFF7E ΔE 0.023
• Faded Yellow #FEFF7F ΔE 0.024

More about Canary

• Shades of yellow
• What yellow means

How to make Canary

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 0.051 from Canary. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make yellow? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Canary 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 Canary

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)

   #FDFF63

   oklch(97% 0.174 109.9)

2. Step 100

   100

   #ECEEBD

   oklch(93.5% 0.064 109.5)

3. Step 200

   200

   #DEE07C

   oklch(88.4% 0.123 109.7)

4. Step 300

   300

   #C9C900

   oklch(80.9% 0.176 109.8)

5. Step 400

   400

   #A7A800

   oklch(70.7% 0.155 110.2)

6. Step 500

   500

   #8F9000

   oklch(63.2% 0.138 110.3)

7. Step 600

   600

   #787900

   oklch(55.7% 0.122 110.4)

8. Step 700

   700

   #656500

   oklch(49.1% 0.107 109.8)

9. Step 800

   800

   #535300

   oklch(42.8% 0.093 109.8)

10. Step 900

    900

    #454500

    oklch(37.8% 0.082 109.8)

11. Step 950

    950

    #282900

    oklch(27.1% 0.06 111.2)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Canary 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.