Off Yellow #F1F33F

About this color

#F1F33F is a very light, vivid yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 93%, its chroma 0.187 and its hue 110°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Off Yellow. Black text reads best on it, at 17.63:1.

Colors that go with Off Yellow

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

Color palettes with Off Yellow

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

• Last Tram Home
• Strobe Afterhours
• Laser and Strobe
• Voltage Midnight
• Chrome Drive
• Synthwave and Boombox
• Arcade Night
• Synthwave Night

Similar named colors

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

• Sunny Yellow #FFF917 ΔE 0.029
• Banana Yellow #FAFE4B ΔE 0.031
• Sunshine Yellow #FFFD37 ΔE 0.033
• Canary Yellow #FFFE40 ΔE 0.035
• Lemon #FDFF52 ΔE 0.036
• Lemon Yellow #FDFF38 ΔE 0.036
• Bright Yellow #FFFD01 ΔE 0.038
• Canary #FDFF63 ΔE 0.039

More about Off Yellow

• Shades of yellow
• What yellow means

How to make Off 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.

• 1 part yellow
• 1 part white

Recipe result: #FFE350, a difference of ΔE 0.048 from Off Yellow. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make yellow? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Off 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 Off 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 100.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F6F8DF

   oklch(97.1% 0.033 110.7)

2. Step 100

   100 (this color)

   #F1F33F

   oklch(93.3% 0.187 110.2)

3. Step 200

   200

   #DEE173

   oklch(88.5% 0.134 110.2)

4. Step 300

   300

   #C8C900

   oklch(80.8% 0.177 110.1)

5. Step 400

   400

   #A7A800

   oklch(70.7% 0.155 110.2)

6. Step 500

   500

   #8F9000

   oklch(63.2% 0.138 110.3)

7. Step 600

   600

   #787900

   oklch(55.7% 0.122 110.4)

8. Step 700

   700

   #656500

   oklch(49.1% 0.107 109.8)

9. Step 800

   800

   #525300

   oklch(42.7% 0.094 110.6)

10. Step 900

    900

    #444500

    oklch(37.7% 0.083 110.7)

11. Step 950

    950

    #282900

    oklch(27.1% 0.06 111.2)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Off 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.