Yellow #FFFF00

About this color

#FFFF00 is a very light, vivid yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 97%, its chroma 0.211 and its hue 110°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Yellow. Black text reads best on it, at 19.55:1.

Colors that go with Yellow

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

Color palettes with Yellow

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

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Similar named colors

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

• Bright Yellow #FFFD01 ΔE 0.005
• Lemon Yellow #FDFF38 ΔE 0.012
• Sunshine Yellow #FFFD37 ΔE 0.014
• Sunny Yellow #FFF917 ΔE 0.016
• Canary Yellow #FFFE40 ΔE 0.017
• Banana Yellow #FAFE4B ΔE 0.022
• Lemon #FDFF52 ΔE 0.026
• Canary #FDFF63 ΔE 0.037

More about Yellow

• Shades of yellow
• Colors that go with Yellow
• What Yellow means

How to make 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 0.081 from Yellow. Yellow is more vivid than these paints can mix, so start from a ready-made yellow paint and adjust it.

What colors make yellow? | Color mixing chart

Codes for 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 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)

   #FFFF00

   oklch(96.8% 0.211 109.8)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EDEFB2

   oklch(93.6% 0.079 109.4)

3. Step 200

   200

   #E0E160

   oklch(88.4% 0.15 109.5)

4. Step 300

   300

   #C9C900

   oklch(80.9% 0.176 109.8)

5. Step 400

   400

   #A8A800

   oklch(70.8% 0.154 109.8)

6. Step 500

   500

   #909000

   oklch(63.2% 0.138 109.8)

7. Step 600

   600

   #787800

   oklch(55.4% 0.121 109.8)

8. Step 700

   700

   #656500

   oklch(49.1% 0.107 109.8)

9. Step 800

   800

   #535300

   oklch(42.8% 0.093 109.8)

10. Step 900

    900

    #454500

    oklch(37.8% 0.082 109.8)

11. Step 950

    950

    #292900

    oklch(27.2% 0.059 109.8)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

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.