Dark Cream #FFF39A

About this color

#FFF39A is a very light, moderately saturated yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 95%, its chroma 0.110 and its hue 102°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Dark Cream. Black text reads best on it, at 18.53:1.

Colors that go with Dark Cream

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

Color palettes with Dark Cream

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

• Ultraviolet Afterhours
• Lime Slice
• Clementine Grove
• Kumquat Peel
• Mandarin Tonic
• Dune Heat
• Pomelo and Mandarin
• Fern Path

Similar named colors

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

• Buff #FEF69E ΔE 0.007
• Parchment #FEFCAF ΔE 0.027
• Light Tan #FBEEAC ΔE 0.028
• Manilla #FFFA86 ΔE 0.032
• Light Khaki #E6F2A2 ΔE 0.034
• Light Beige #FFFEB6 ΔE 0.035
• Creme #FFFFB6 ΔE 0.036
• Straw #FCF679 ΔE 0.038

More about Dark Cream

• Shades of yellow
• What yellow means

How to make Dark Cream

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 0.006 from Dark Cream. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make yellow? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Dark Cream 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 Dark Cream

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)

   #FFF39A

   oklch(95.4% 0.11 101.6)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EFEBCC

   oklch(93.5% 0.041 101.1)

3. Step 200

   200

   #E3DC9F

   oklch(88.6% 0.079 102.3)

4. Step 300

   300

   #D4C348

   oklch(80.9% 0.142 101.4)

5. Step 400

   400

   #B4A200

   oklch(70.6% 0.147 101.4)

6. Step 500

   500

   #9A8B00

   oklch(63% 0.132 101.8)

7. Step 600

   600

   #827500

   oklch(55.7% 0.116 101.7)

8. Step 700

   700

   #6D6200

   oklch(49.1% 0.103 101.8)

9. Step 800

   800

   #595000

   oklch(42.7% 0.089 102)

10. Step 900

    900

    #4A4200

    oklch(37.6% 0.079 101.6)

11. Step 950

    950

    #2C2700

    oklch(27% 0.057 102.1)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Dark Cream 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.