Pale #FFF9D0

About this color

#FFF9D0 is a very light, muted yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 98%, its chroma 0.053 and its hue 100°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Pale. Black text reads best on it, at 19.71:1.

Colors that go with Pale

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

Color palettes with Pale

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

• Pumpkin and Harvest
• Bracken Ridge
• Pool Festival
• Popsicle Break
• Watermelon Break
• Hibiscus Break
• Plum Blue Hour
• Dandelion and Buttercup

Similar named colors

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

• Lemon Chiffon #FFFACD ΔE 0.005
• Light Goldenrod Yellow #FAFAD2 ΔE 0.007
• Eggshell #FFFFD4 ΔE 0.015
• Cornsilk #FFF8DC ΔE 0.017
• Egg Shell #FFFCC4 ΔE 0.019
• Ecru #FEFFCA ΔE 0.019
• Light Yellow #FFFFE0 ΔE 0.021
• Beige #F5F5DC ΔE 0.025

More about Pale

• Shades of yellow
• What yellow means

How to make Pale

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
• 1 part yellow

Recipe result: #FDF8AD, a difference of ΔE 0.042 from Pale. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make yellow? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Pale 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 Pale

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)

   #FFF9D0

   oklch(97.6% 0.053 100.4)

2. Step 100

   100

   #ECEADC

   oklch(93.5% 0.019 100.1)

3. Step 200

   200

   #DEDABE

   oklch(88.4% 0.038 100.4)

4. Step 300

   300

   #CAC28F

   oklch(80.8% 0.068 100.2)

5. Step 400

   400

   #B0A24B

   oklch(70.7% 0.109 100.3)

6. Step 500

   500

   #9C8A00

   oklch(63% 0.131 100.1)

7. Step 600

   600

   #837400

   oklch(55.6% 0.116 100.3)

8. Step 700

   700

   #6E6100

   oklch(49% 0.102 100.2)

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

    #2D2700

    oklch(27.1% 0.056 100.5)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Pale 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.