Dull Yellow #EEDC5B

About this color

#EEDC5B is a light, vivid yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 89%, its chroma 0.148 and its hue 101°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Dull Yellow. Black text reads best on it, at 15.02:1.

Colors that go with Dull Yellow

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

Color palettes with Dull Yellow

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

• Puddle Box
• Lollipop Party
• Balloon Party
• Gumdrop Playground
• Pool Festival
• Popsicle Night
• Cabana and Watermelon
• Papaya Stand

Similar named colors

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

• Light Mustard #F7D560 ΔE 0.023
• Sand Yellow #FCE166 ΔE 0.026
• Pale Gold #FDDE6C ΔE 0.028
• Maize #F4D054 ΔE 0.029
• Sandy #F1DA7A ΔE 0.032
• Yellow Tan #FFE36E ΔE 0.035
• Gold #FFD700 ΔE 0.038
• Sun Yellow #FFDF22 ΔE 0.038

More about Dull Yellow

• Shades of yellow
• What yellow means

How to make Dull 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.

• 4 parts white
• 3 parts yellow
• 1 part brown

Recipe result: #F0DB61, a difference of ΔE 0.007 from Dull Yellow. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make yellow? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Dull 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 Dull 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 200.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F9F6E3

   oklch(97% 0.025 99.5)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F1ECC2

   oklch(93.6% 0.055 101.8)

3. Step 200

   200 (this color)

   #EEDC5B

   oklch(88.5% 0.148 101.4)

4. Step 300

   300

   #D8C300

   oklch(81% 0.169 101.6)

5. Step 400

   400

   #B4A200

   oklch(70.6% 0.147 101.4)

6. Step 500

   500

   #9B8B00

   oklch(63.1% 0.132 101.2)

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

   #5A5000

   oklch(42.8% 0.089 101.1)

10. Step 900

    900

    #4B4200

    oklch(37.7% 0.078 100.6)

11. Step 950

    950

    #2C2700

    oklch(27% 0.057 102.1)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Dull 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.