Earth Yellow #DDA15E

About this color

#DDA15E is a medium-light, moderately saturated orange. In OKLCH its lightness is 75%, its chroma 0.110 and its hue 68°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Earth Yellow. Black text reads best on it, at 9.33:1.

Colors that go with Earth Yellow

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

Color palettes with Earth Yellow

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

• Sagebrush and Cactus
• Dune and Kiln
• Sourdough Display
• Pretzel and Rye
• Ledger and Gramophone
• Almanac and Postcard
• Pressed Souvenir
• Sorrel Pasture

Similar named colors

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

• Sand Brown #CBA560 ΔE 0.029
• Desert #CCAD60 ΔE 0.038
• Camel #C69F59 ΔE 0.039
• Sandy Brown #F4A460 ΔE 0.039
• Faded Orange #F0944D ΔE 0.040
• Fawn #CFAF7B ΔE 0.041
• Sandstone #C9AE74 ΔE 0.042
• Toupe #C7AC7D ΔE 0.045

More about Earth Yellow

• Shades of orange
• What orange means

How to make Earth 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.

• 3 parts pink
• 2 parts yellow
• 1 part purple

Recipe result: #DE9E5C, a difference of ΔE 0.007 from Earth Yellow. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make orange? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Earth 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 Earth 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 400.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FAF4EF

   oklch(97% 0.009 62.6)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F3E8DC

   oklch(93.6% 0.02 70)

3. Step 200

   200

   #EBD5BF

   oklch(88.5% 0.038 67.3)

4. Step 300

   300

   #DFB991

   oklch(80.9% 0.069 68)

5. Step 400

   400 (this color)

   #DDA15E

   oklch(75.3% 0.11 67.8)

6. Step 500

   500

   #BF7600

   oklch(63% 0.138 67.7)

7. Step 600

   600

   #A16300

   oklch(55.5% 0.122 67.9)

8. Step 700

   700

   #885300

   oklch(49.1% 0.108 68.1)

9. Step 800

   800

   #704300

   oklch(42.6% 0.094 67.6)

10. Step 900

    900

    #5E3800

    oklch(37.8% 0.083 68.3)

11. Step 950

    950

    #392001

    oklch(27% 0.058 67.4)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Earth 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.