Faded Yellow #FEFF7F

About this color

#FEFF7F is a very light, vivid yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 97%, its chroma 0.150 and its hue 109°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Faded Yellow. Black text reads best on it, at 19.82:1.

Colors that go with Faded Yellow

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

Color palettes with Faded Yellow

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

• Lemonade Heatwave

Similar named colors

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

• Banana #FFFF7E ΔE 0.001
• Butter #FFFF81 ΔE 0.003
• Pale Yellow #FFFF84 ΔE 0.005
• Custard #FFFD78 ΔE 0.007
• Butter Yellow #FFFD74 ΔE 0.009
• Pastel Yellow #FFFE71 ΔE 0.012
• Manilla #FFFA86 ΔE 0.016
• Straw #FCF679 ΔE 0.022

More about Faded Yellow

• Shades of yellow
• What yellow means

How to make Faded 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 0.039 from Faded Yellow. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make yellow? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Faded 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 Faded 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)

   #FEFF7F

   oklch(97.4% 0.15 109.3)

2. Step 100

   100

   #ECEEC3

   oklch(93.7% 0.056 109.6)

3. Step 200

   200

   #DEDF8A

   oklch(88.4% 0.107 109)

4. Step 300

   300

   #CAC900

   oklch(81% 0.176 109.4)

5. Step 400

   400

   #A8A700

   oklch(70.6% 0.153 109.3)

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

Faded 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.