Canary Yellow #FFFE40

About this color

#FFFE40 is a very light, vivid yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 97%, its chroma 0.194 and its hue 109°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Canary Yellow. Black text reads best on it, at 19.50:1.

Colors that go with Canary Yellow

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

Color palettes with Canary Yellow

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

• Last Tram Home
• Strobe Afterhours
• Laser and Strobe
• Voltage Midnight

Similar named colors

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

• Sunshine Yellow #FFFD37 ΔE 0.004
• Lemon Yellow #FDFF38 ΔE 0.006
• Banana Yellow #FAFE4B ΔE 0.008
• Lemon #FDFF52 ΔE 0.009
• Sunny Yellow #FFF917 ΔE 0.016
• Bright Yellow #FFFD01 ΔE 0.016
• Yellow #FFFF00 ΔE 0.017
• Canary #FDFF63 ΔE 0.020

More about Canary Yellow

• Shades of yellow
• What yellow means

How to make Canary Yellow

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

What colors make yellow? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Canary Yellow 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 Yellow

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)

   #FFFE40

   oklch(96.8% 0.194 109.2)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EDEFB7

   oklch(93.7% 0.072 109.4)

3. Step 200

   200

   #E0E16D

   oklch(88.6% 0.139 109.4)

4. Step 300

   300

   #CAC900

   oklch(81% 0.176 109.4)

5. Step 400

   400

   #A9A700

   oklch(70.7% 0.153 108.9)

6. Step 500

   500

   #908F00

   oklch(63% 0.137 109.3)

7. Step 600

   600

   #797800

   oklch(55.5% 0.121 109.2)

8. Step 700

   700

   #666500

   oklch(49.1% 0.107 109.1)

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

    #292800

    oklch(26.9% 0.058 108.3)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Canary Yellow 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.