Pale Goldenrod #EEE8AA

About this color

#EEE8AA is a very light, moderately saturated yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 92%, its chroma 0.080 and its hue 103°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Pale Goldenrod. Black text reads best on it, at 16.75:1.

Colors that go with Pale Goldenrod

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

Color palettes with Pale Goldenrod

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

• Oat Canvas
• Opal Daydream
• Fern Path
• Lemon Peel
• Paisley Tour
• Chrome and Jukebox
• Sagebrush Road
• Cabinet and Whiteboard

Similar named colors

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

• Light Tan #FBEEAC ΔE 0.025
• Pale Peach #FFE5AD ΔE 0.025
• Lemon Meringue #EAE2B7 ΔE 0.027
• Moccasin #FFE4B5 ΔE 0.032
• Light Khaki #E6F2A2 ΔE 0.032
• Wheat #F5DEB3 ΔE 0.033
• Khaki #F0E68C ΔE 0.033
• Navajo White #FFDEAD ΔE 0.035

More about Pale Goldenrod

• Shades of yellow
• What yellow means

How to make Pale Goldenrod

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
• 1 part gray

Recipe result: #EAECAD, a difference of ΔE 0.011 from Pale Goldenrod. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make yellow? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Pale Goldenrod 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 Goldenrod

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

   #F7F6EC

   oklch(97.1% 0.013 102)

2. Step 100

   100 (this color)

   #EEE8AA

   oklch(92.1% 0.08 103.2)

3. Step 200

   200

   #DFDBB0

   oklch(88.4% 0.057 103.1)

4. Step 300

   300

   #CCC473

   oklch(80.9% 0.103 103.5)

5. Step 400

   400

   #B2A300

   oklch(70.6% 0.148 102.9)

6. Step 500

   500

   #988C00

   oklch(63.1% 0.133 103.5)

7. Step 600

   600

   #807500

   oklch(55.5% 0.117 103)

8. Step 700

   700

   #6C6200

   oklch(49% 0.103 102.5)

9. Step 800

   800

   #585000

   oklch(42.6% 0.089 102.9)

10. Step 900

    900

    #494300

    oklch(37.7% 0.08 103.8)

11. Step 950

    950

    #2C2700

    oklch(27% 0.057 102.1)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Pale Goldenrod 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.