Dandelion #FEDF08

About this color

#FEDF08 is a very light, vivid yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 90%, its chroma 0.186 and its hue 99°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Dandelion. Black text reads best on it, at 15.77:1.

Colors that go with Dandelion

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

Color palettes with Dandelion

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

• Strobe Afterhours
• Laser and Strobe
• Voltage Midnight
• Puddle Box
• Lollipop Party
• Balloon Party
• Gumdrop Playground
• Pool Festival

Similar named colors

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

• Sun Yellow #FFDF22 ΔE 0.006
• Sunflower Yellow #FFDA03 ΔE 0.012
• Gold #FFD700 ΔE 0.019
• Dull Yellow #EEDC5B ΔE 0.042
• Sand Yellow #FCE166 ΔE 0.043
• Off Yellow #F1F33F ΔE 0.048
• Yellow Tan #FFE36E ΔE 0.049
• Pale Gold #FDDE6C ΔE 0.051

More about Dandelion

• Shades of yellow
• What yellow means

How to make Dandelion

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 yellow
• 1 part white

Recipe result: #FFD932, a difference of ΔE 0.022 from Dandelion. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make yellow? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Dandelion 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 Dandelion

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 200.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FAF6DE

   oklch(97% 0.032 99.2)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F5EBB6

   oklch(93.5% 0.069 98.6)

3. Step 200

   200 (this color)

   #FEDF08

   oklch(90.2% 0.186 99)

4. Step 300

   300

   #DCC100

   oklch(80.9% 0.168 99.1)

5. Step 400

   400

   #B8A100

   oklch(70.8% 0.147 99)

6. Step 500

   500

   #9E8A00

   oklch(63.2% 0.131 99)

7. Step 600

   600

   #847300

   oklch(55.5% 0.115 98.9)

8. Step 700

   700

   #6F6100

   oklch(49.1% 0.102 99.4)

9. Step 800

   800

   #5B4F00

   oklch(42.7% 0.088 99.2)

10. Step 900

    900

    #4C4200

    oklch(37.8% 0.078 99.5)

11. Step 950

    950

    #2D2600

    oklch(26.8% 0.056 98.7)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Dandelion 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.