Sunshine Yellow #FFFD37

About this color

#FFFD37 is a very light, vivid yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 97%, its chroma 0.197 and its hue 109°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Sunshine Yellow. Black text reads best on it, at 19.35:1.

Colors that go with Sunshine Yellow

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

Color palettes with Sunshine Yellow

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

• Last Tram Home
• Strobe Afterhours
• Laser and Strobe
• Voltage Midnight

Similar named colors

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

• Canary Yellow #FFFE40 ΔE 0.004
• Lemon Yellow #FDFF38 ΔE 0.005
• Banana Yellow #FAFE4B ΔE 0.010
• Sunny Yellow #FFF917 ΔE 0.012
• Bright Yellow #FFFD01 ΔE 0.012
• Lemon #FDFF52 ΔE 0.013
• Yellow #FFFF00 ΔE 0.014
• Canary #FDFF63 ΔE 0.024

More about Sunshine Yellow

• Shades of yellow
• What yellow means

How to make Sunshine 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 0.068 from Sunshine Yellow. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make yellow? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Sunshine 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 Sunshine 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)

   #FFFD37

   oklch(96.5% 0.197 109)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EDEFB6

   oklch(93.7% 0.074 109.4)

3. Step 200

   200

   #E1E16A

   oklch(88.6% 0.142 109)

4. Step 300

   300

   #CBC800

   oklch(80.9% 0.175 108.7)

5. Step 400

   400

   #A9A700

   oklch(70.7% 0.153 108.9)

6. Step 500

   500

   #918F00

   oklch(63.1% 0.137 108.8)

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

   #535200

   oklch(42.6% 0.092 108.9)

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

Sunshine 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.