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#dfe372

a light, vivid yellow · warm · closest name: Khaki

Token name suggestion: Drift Brass

RGB
223, 227, 114
HSL
62°, 67%, 67%
CMYK
2, 0, 50, 11
Luminance
0.7184

#dfe372 is a light vivid yellow, 62° on the wheel and 27/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.37:1). As text it scores 1.37:1 on white — use #787B18 instead. Nearest name is Khaki, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(62 67% 67%)rgb(223 227 114)Base step 400AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #dfe372 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#dfe372
Hue
62°
yellow
Saturation
67%
vivid
Lightness
67%
light
Brightness
89%
HSV value
Perceived
85%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7184
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
27/100 cool
Color family
Yellow
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
15.37:1
Closest name
Khaki
ΔE2000 4.8
Chroma
56.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.890
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 14.7
Web-safe
#CCCC66
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue62° of 360°
Saturation67%
Lightness67%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #dfe372.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool27% cool

Reads warm. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red22%
Green76%
Blue2%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#dfe372
HEX (8-digit)#dfe372ff
RGBrgb(223, 227, 114)
RGBArgba(223, 227, 114, 1)
HSLhsl(62, 67%, 67%)
HSV / HSBhsv(62, 50%, 89%)
HWBhwb(62 45% 11%)
CMYKcmyk(2%, 0%, 50%, 11%)
LABlab(87.9 -16.7 54.1)
LCHlch(87.9 56.6 107.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.890 0.137 110.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(60.94, 71.84, 26.57)
Decimal14672754
Display P3color(display-p3 0.875 0.890 0.447)
Web-safe#CCCC66

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #dfe372;
background-color: #dfe372;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #dfe372;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#dfe372] bg-[#dfe372]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #dfe372;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.875, green: 0.890, blue: 0.447)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.875, green: 0.890, blue: 0.447, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#DFE372</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFDFE372)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFDFE372)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(114, 227, 223)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(223, 227, 114)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(223, 227, 114)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 223, 227, 114)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8745f, 0.8902f, 0.4471f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{223,227,114}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #dfe372 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #dfe372 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#676A15, #EDEED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #dfe372 h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #FBFBF3;
  --brand-100: #F7F8E8;
  --brand-200: #F0F1CA;
  --brand-300: #EAECA1;
  --brand-400: #dfe372;
  --brand-500: #D5DA44;
  --brand-600: #C7CC29;
  --brand-700: #A5AA22;
  --brand-800: #84881B;
  --brand-900: #606318;
  --brand-950: #3C3E0F;
  --brand: #dfe372;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAFAF4;
  --brand-border: #EBEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #D8DD54;
  --brand-pressed: #D2D737;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #242414;
    --brand-ink: #EDEED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBFBF3',
        100: '#F7F8E8',
        200: '#F0F1CA',
        300: '#EAECA1',
        400: '#dfe372',
        500: '#D5DA44',
        600: '#C7CC29',
        700: '#A5AA22',
        800: '#84881B',
        900: '#606318',
        950: '#3C3E0F',
        DEFAULT: '#dfe372',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBFBF3,
  '100': #F7F8E8,
  '200': #F0F1CA,
  '300': #EAECA1,
  '400': #dfe372,
  '500': #D5DA44,
  '600': #C7CC29,
  '700': #A5AA22,
  '800': #84881B,
  '900': #606318,
  '950': #3C3E0F,
);
$brand-base: #dfe372;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBFBF3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F7F8E8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F0F1CA", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#EAECA1", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#dfe372", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#D5DA44", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#C7CC29", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#A5AA22", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#84881B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#606318", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3C3E0F", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#000000", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#000000 on #dfe372 · 15.37:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.37:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 15.37:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #dfe372 as text scores 1.37:1 on white and 15.37:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #676A15 at 4.21:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#787B18 · 4.52:1
AA on white−38% L
#787B18
The quick fox
#565912 · 7.41:1
AAA on white−46% L
#565912
The quick fox
#dfe372 · 15.37:1
AA on blackalready passes
#dfe372
The quick fox
#dfe372 · 15.37:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#dfe372

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #95991E is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#dfe372 on white: 1.37:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#dfe372 on black: 15.37:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #dfe372 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #dfe372.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.37:1AaAa
Slate 501.31:1AaAa
Slate 1001.25:1AaAa
Slate 2001.11:1AaAa
Slate 3001.09:1AaAa
Slate 4001.88:1AaAa
Slate 5003.48:1AaAa
Slate 6005.55:1AaAa
Slate 7007.58:1AaAa
Slate 80010.71:1AaAa
Slate 90013.06:1AaAa
Black15.37:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F2DB68
deuteranopia · #F3DE78
tritanopia · #ECD7C9

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #dfe372 is pinned to step 400; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FBFBF3
#F7F8E8
#F0F1CA
#EAECA1
#dfe372
#D5DA44
#C7CC29
#A5AA22
#84881B
#606318
#3C3E0F
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #FBFBF3Darkest = 950 · #3C3E0FText step on white = 900
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.034 110.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.055 110.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.082 110.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.107 110.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.126 110.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.137 110.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.137 110.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.128 110.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.115 110.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.096 110.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.075 110.7);
}

Colors that work with #dfe372

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#000000
Black wins here
Surface#FAFAF4
Tinted page background
Border#EBEDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#989B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#6F88E6
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#676A15
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FAFBEA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#242414
Dark-mode background
Hover#D8DD54
One step down in lightness
Pressed#D2D737
Two steps down
Disabled#E8E9DC
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#EAEE7C
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #dfe372

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • White text placed on it
  • Thin strokes and 1px borders — they disappear on light UI
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #676A15
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #95991E

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

optimisticalertcheap-and-cheerfulvisible

The most visible hue at low light levels, which is why it owns warnings, hazard tape and value retail.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. The lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

Almost never passes contrast against white. Treat it as a surface or a marker, not as text.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight33/100
  • TemperatureWarm
  • ApproachabilityHigh

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#7672E3
Analogous left#E3AF72
Analogous right#A7E372
Split-complement 1#72A7E3
Split-complement 2#AF72E3
Triadic 1#72DFE3
Triadic 2#E372DF
Tetradic#72E3AF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°62°

#dfe372 sits at 62°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red87.5%
Green89.0%
Blue44.7%
R · 0–255
223
0xdf
G · 0–255
227
0xe3
B · 0–255
114
0x72

CMYK percentages

Cyan1.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow49.8%
Key (black)11.0%

Total ink coverage is 63%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#dfe372 text on a black background

contrast 15.37:1

Card sample

#dfe372 text on a white background

contrast 1.37:1

Card sample

#dfe372 on grey

1.25:1

#dfe372 on its own surface

1.30:1

#dfe372 on its dark surface

11.49:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #dfe372;
Background color
Panel with #dfe372 background
background-color: #dfe372;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #dfe372;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(223, 227, 114, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(223, 227, 114, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #dfe372;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #dfe372, #94E372);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #dfe372, #78E372);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #dfe372;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #dfe372;
caret-color: #dfe372;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #dfe372;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FAFBEA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #dfe372;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#dfe372 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #dfe372 over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(223, 227, 114, 0.5)
rgb(223 227 114 / 50%)
#dfe37280
hsl(62 67% 67% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #dfe372 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#dfe3721a#FCFCF1
20%#dfe37233#F9F9E3
40%#dfe37266#F2F4C7
60%#dfe37299#ECEEAA
80%#dfe372cc#E5E98E

Gradients from #dfe372

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #EBEDA5, #dfe372 45%, #676A15);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #dfe372, #75DE59);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #dfe372, #7672E3);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F0F2BF 0%, #dfe372 45%, #676A15 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAFAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #ECC09D 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #AFE88C 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #676A15 0%, transparent 65%), #dfe372;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #dfe372

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#dfe372 in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
RetailLeisureEnergyWarning systems
Common UI roles
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
Print note

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

On screens

Holds up across typical panel gamma. Still worth checking on an uncalibrated laptop, where mid-tones shift most.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 15.37:1.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#dfe372, answered

What color is #dfe372?

#dfe372 is a light vivid yellow, closest to Khaki (ΔE2000 4.8). It sits at 62° on the hue wheel with 67% saturation and 67% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #dfe372?

rgb(223, 227, 114) — 223 red, 227 green and 114 blue out of 255, or 87.5% / 89% / 44.7% by channel.

What is #dfe372 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(62, 67%, 67%) and hsv(62, 50%, 89%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #dfe372 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7184 and perceived brightness is 85%, so black text on it reaches 15.37:1.

Should I use black or white text on #dfe372?

Black. It scores 15.37:1 against #dfe372, versus 1.37:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #dfe372 accessible on a white background?

#dfe372 on white scores 1.37:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #787B18 to reach 4.5:1, or #565912 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #dfe372?

#7672E3 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #72A7E3 and #AF72E3, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #dfe372?

For interface work: #FAFAF4 as the surface, #EBEDC0 for borders, #989B4B for secondary text, #6F88E6 as an accent and #676A15 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #E3AF72 and #A7E372 stays calm, while #7672E3 is the loudest partner.

What is #dfe372 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(2%, 0%, 50%, 11%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #dfe372 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 27 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #E3BE72; nudged cooler, #B6E570.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #dfe372?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 14.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #dfe372 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #dfe372 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#dfe372] or text-[#dfe372], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #dfe372 with 50% opacity?

rgba(223, 227, 114, 0.5), or #dfe37280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EFF1B9; over black, #707239.

Is #dfe372 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCCC66, ΔE2000 5.4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #dfe372 mean?

As a yellow, it reads optimistic, alert, cheap-and-cheerful. The most visible hue at low light levels, which is why it owns warnings, hazard tape and value retail. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #dfe372?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EBEDA5, #dfe372 45%, #676A15). For more colour, a short hue run to #75DE59 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #dfe372 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #dfe372 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.