Light Gold #F3DE8A

About this color

#F3DE8A is a light, moderately saturated yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 90%, its chroma 0.107 and its hue 96°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Light Gold. Black text reads best on it, at 15.62:1.

Colors that go with Light Gold

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

Color palettes with Light Gold

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

• Avocado Kitchen
• Groovy Station Wagon
• Corduroy Patio
• Mustard Patio
• Lemon Peel
• Almanac Wallpaper
• Noir and Obsidian
• Paprika Descent

Similar named colors

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

• Sandy #F1DA7A ΔE 0.018
• Khaki #F0E68C ΔE 0.020
• Pale Gold #FDDE6C ΔE 0.031
• Pale Goldenrod #EEE8AA ΔE 0.036
• Yellow Tan #FFE36E ΔE 0.037
• Sand Yellow #FCE166 ΔE 0.039
• Light Mustard #F7D560 ΔE 0.039
• Sunglow #FFD166 ΔE 0.040

More about Light Gold

• Shades of yellow
• What yellow means

How to make Light Gold

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
• 1 part pink

Recipe result: #FBDB83, a difference of ΔE 0.012 from Light Gold. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make yellow? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Light Gold 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 Light Gold

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

   #F9F6E8

   oklch(97.2% 0.019 96.9)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F2EACD

   oklch(93.6% 0.039 94.3)

3. Step 200

   200 (this color)

   #F3DE8A

   oklch(90% 0.107 95.8)

4. Step 300

   300

   #DBC04B

   oklch(80.9% 0.137 96.1)

5. Step 400

   400

   #BC9F00

   oklch(70.7% 0.145 95.9)

6. Step 500

   500

   #A18800

   oklch(63.1% 0.13 96)

7. Step 600

   600

   #887200

   oklch(55.6% 0.114 95.6)

8. Step 700

   700

   #726000

   oklch(49.2% 0.101 96.3)

9. Step 800

   800

   #5E4E00

   oklch(42.8% 0.088 95.4)

10. Step 900

    900

    #4E4100

    oklch(37.8% 0.078 96.2)

11. Step 950

    950

    #2F2600

    oklch(27.1% 0.056 95.5)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Light Gold 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.