Vanilla #E9D8A6

About this color

#E9D8A6 is a light, muted yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 88%, its chroma 0.068 and its hue 92°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Vanilla. Black text reads best on it, at 14.83:1.

Colors that go with Vanilla

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

Color palettes with Vanilla

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

• Obsidian Penthouse
• Noir Suite
• Gilded and Brass
• Terracotta Rooftop
• Noir and Obsidian
• Hemp Workshop
• Ash Gallery
• Salt Morning

Similar named colors

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

• Wheat #F5DEB3 ΔE 0.027
• Lemon Meringue #EAE2B7 ΔE 0.028
• Light Peach #FFD8B1 ΔE 0.036
• Pale Oak #DBCFB0 ΔE 0.037
• Navajo White #FFDEAD ΔE 0.037
• Peach Puff #FFDAB9 ΔE 0.042
• Pale Goldenrod #EEE8AA ΔE 0.042
• Light Gold #F3DE8A ΔE 0.042

More about Vanilla

• Shades of yellow
• What yellow means

How to make Vanilla

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.

• 3 parts white
• 1 part orange
• 1 part gray

Recipe result: #E7D7A4, a difference of ΔE 0.004 from Vanilla. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make yellow? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Vanilla 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 Vanilla

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

   #F8F5ED

   oklch(97% 0.011 89.7)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F0EAD7

   oklch(93.7% 0.026 92.4)

3. Step 200

   200 (this color)

   #E9D8A6

   oklch(88.4% 0.068 91.5)

4. Step 300

   300

   #D5BF7E

   oklch(80.8% 0.087 91.5)

5. Step 400

   400

   #C09C18

   oklch(70.6% 0.139 91.4)

6. Step 500

   500

   #A68600

   oklch(63.2% 0.129 91.9)

7. Step 600

   600

   #8C7000

   oklch(55.6% 0.114 91.4)

8. Step 700

   700

   #765E00

   oklch(49.2% 0.101 91.4)

9. Step 800

   800

   #614D00

   oklch(42.9% 0.088 91.6)

10. Step 900

    900

    #513F00

    oklch(37.6% 0.077 90.4)

11. Step 950

    950

    #302500

    oklch(26.9% 0.055 91.9)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Vanilla 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.