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#f7f3c4

a pale, electric yellow · warm · closest name: Lemon Chiffon

Token name suggestion: Whisper Brass

RGB
247, 243, 196
HSL
55°, 76%, 87%
CMYK
0, 2, 21, 3
Luminance
0.8786

#f7f3c4 is a pale electric yellow, 55° on the wheel and 21/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.57:1). As text it scores 1.13:1 on white — use #7D7511 instead. Nearest name is Lemon Chiffon, nearest Tailwind family is yellow.

hsl(55 76% 87%)rgb(247 243 196)Base step 200AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f7f3c4 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f7f3c4
Hue
55°
yellow
Saturation
76%
electric
Lightness
87%
pale
Brightness
97%
HSV value
Perceived
94%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8786
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
21/100 cool
Color family
Yellow
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
18.57:1
Closest name
Lemon Chiffon
ΔE2000 1.6
Chroma
24.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.956
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
yellow
500 · ΔE 23
Web-safe
#FFFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue55° of 360°
Saturation76%
Lightness87%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f7f3c4.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool21% 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
Red23%
Green73%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#f7f3c4
HEX (8-digit)#f7f3c4ff
RGBrgb(247, 243, 196)
RGBArgba(247, 243, 196, 1)
HSLhsl(55, 76%, 87%)
HSV / HSBhsv(55, 21%, 97%)
HWBhwb(55 77% 3%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 2%, 21%, 3%)
LABlab(95.1 -6.1 23.2)
LCHlch(95.1 24.0 104.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.956 0.061 103.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(80.37, 87.86, 64.94)
Decimal16249796
Display P3color(display-p3 0.969 0.953 0.769)
Web-safe#FFFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f7f3c4;
background-color: #f7f3c4;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f7f3c4;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f7f3c4] bg-[#f7f3c4]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f7f3c4;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.969, green: 0.953, blue: 0.769)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.969, green: 0.953, blue: 0.769, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F7F3C4</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF7F3C4)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF7F3C4)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(196, 243, 247)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(247, 243, 196)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(247, 243, 196)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 247, 243, 196)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9686f, 0.9529f, 0.7686f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{247,243,196}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f7f3c4 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f7f3c4 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#70690F, #EEECD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f7f3c4 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: #FCFBF3;
  --brand-100: #F9F7E7;
  --brand-200: #f7f3c4;
  --brand-300: #F2EB9C;
  --brand-400: #EBE16B;
  --brand-500: #E4D739;
  --brand-600: #D8C91D;
  --brand-700: #B4A718;
  --brand-800: #908614;
  --brand-900: #686112;
  --brand-950: #413D0B;
  --brand: #f7f3c4;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAFAF4;
  --brand-border: #EDE9C0;
  --brand-hover: #F3EDA5;
  --brand-pressed: #EEE685;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #242314;
    --brand-ink: #EEECD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FCFBF3',
        100: '#F9F7E7',
        200: '#f7f3c4',
        300: '#F2EB9C',
        400: '#EBE16B',
        500: '#E4D739',
        600: '#D8C91D',
        700: '#B4A718',
        800: '#908614',
        900: '#686112',
        950: '#413D0B',
        DEFAULT: '#f7f3c4',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FCFBF3,
  '100': #F9F7E7,
  '200': #f7f3c4,
  '300': #F2EB9C,
  '400': #EBE16B,
  '500': #E4D739,
  '600': #D8C91D,
  '700': #B4A718,
  '800': #908614,
  '900': #686112,
  '950': #413D0B,
);
$brand-base: #f7f3c4;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FCFBF3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F9F7E7", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#f7f3c4", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#F2EB9C", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#EBE16B", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#E4D739", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#D8C91D", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#B4A718", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#908614", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#686112", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#413D0B", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f7f3c4 · 18.57:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.13:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.57:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f7f3c4 as text scores 1.13:1 on white and 18.57:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #70690F at 5.00:1.

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
#7D7511 · 4.75:1
AA on white−59% L
#7D7511
The quick fox
#5E570D · 7.38:1
AAA on white−66% L
#5E570D
The quick fox
#f7f3c4 · 18.57:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f7f3c4
The quick fox
#f7f3c4 · 18.57:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f7f3c4

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #A19616 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
#f7f3c4 on white: 1.13:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f7f3c4 on black: 18.57:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f7f3c4 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f7f3c4.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.13:1AaAa
Slate 501.08:1AaAa
Slate 1001.03:1AaAa
Slate 2001.09:1AaAa
Slate 3001.31:1AaAa
Slate 4002.27:1AaAa
Slate 5004.21:1AaAa
Slate 6006.70:1AaAa
Slate 7009.16:1AaAa
Slate 80012.94:1AaAa
Slate 90015.79:1AaAa
Black18.57:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FCEFC1
deuteranopia · #FEF2C6
tritanopia · #FFECE6

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. #f7f3c4 is pinned to step 200; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FCFBF3
#F9F7E7
#f7f3c4
#F2EB9C
#EBE16B
#E4D739
#D8C91D
#B4A718
#908614
#686112
#413D0B
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #FCFBF3Darkest = 950 · #413D0BText 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 0.015 103.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.024 103.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.037 103.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.048 103.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.056 103.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.061 103.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.061 103.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.057 103.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.051 103.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.043 103.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.033 103.5);
}

Colors that work with #f7f3c4

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#EDE9C0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B954B
Captions on the surface
Accent#1549B7
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#70690F
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FCFAE9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#242314
Dark-mode background
Hover#F3EDA5
One step down in lightness
Pressed#EEE685
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FCF9D4
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
Your export is ready

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #f7f3c4

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 #70690F
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #A19616

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.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. The high lightness makes it recede — a surface colour rather than a statement.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight13/100
  • 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#C4C8F7
Analogous left#F7DAC4
Analogous right#E2F7C4
Split-complement 1#C4E2F7
Split-complement 2#DAC4F7
Triadic 1#C4F7F3
Triadic 2#F3C4F7
Tetradic#C4F7DA
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°55°

#f7f3c4 sits at 55°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red96.9%
Green95.3%
Blue76.9%
R · 0–255
247
0xf7
G · 0–255
243
0xf3
B · 0–255
196
0xc4

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta1.6%
Yellow20.6%
Key (black)3.1%

Total ink coverage is 25%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#f7f3c4 text on a black background

contrast 18.57:1

Card sample

#f7f3c4 text on a white background

contrast 1.13:1

Card sample

#f7f3c4 on grey

1.03:1

#f7f3c4 on its own surface

1.08:1

#f7f3c4 on its dark surface

14.01:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f7f3c4;
Background color
Panel with #f7f3c4 background
background-color: #f7f3c4;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f7f3c4;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(247, 243, 196, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(247, 243, 196, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f7f3c4;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f7f3c4, #D9F7C4);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f7f3c4, #CCF7C4);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f7f3c4;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f7f3c4;
caret-color: #f7f3c4;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f7f3c4;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FCFAE9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f7f3c4;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f7f3c4 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f7f3c4 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(247, 243, 196, 0.5)
rgb(247 243 196 / 50%)
#f7f3c480
hsl(55 76% 87% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f7f3c4 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f7f3c41a#FEFEF9
20%#f7f3c433#FDFDF3
40%#f7f3c466#FCFAE7
60%#f7f3c499#FAF8DC
80%#f7f3c4cc#F9F5D0

Gradients from #f7f3c4

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, #FDFBED, #f7f3c4 45%, #70690F);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f7f3c4, #C2F3A9);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f7f3c4, #C4C8F7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FDFCF2 0%, #f7f3c4 45%, #70690F 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%, #FDF5F1 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #EDFBDF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #70690F 0%, transparent 65%), #f7f3c4;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f7f3c4

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.

#f7f3c4 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

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

On screens

Very light values are indistinguishable from white on a dim phone screen outdoors. Give it a border if the boundary matters.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 18.57:1.

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.

#f7f3c4, answered

What color is #f7f3c4?

#f7f3c4 is a pale electric yellow, closest to Lemon Chiffon (ΔE2000 1.6). It sits at 55° on the hue wheel with 76% saturation and 87% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #f7f3c4?

rgb(247, 243, 196) — 247 red, 243 green and 196 blue out of 255, or 96.9% / 95.3% / 76.9% by channel.

What is #f7f3c4 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(55, 76%, 87%) and hsv(55, 21%, 97%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f7f3c4 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8786 and perceived brightness is 94%, so black text on it reaches 18.57:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f7f3c4?

Black. It scores 18.57:1 against #f7f3c4, versus 1.13:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f7f3c4 accessible on a white background?

#f7f3c4 on white scores 1.13:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #7D7511 to reach 4.5:1, or #5E570D for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f7f3c4?

#C4C8F7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #C4E2F7 and #DAC4F7, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f7f3c4?

For interface work: #FAFAF4 as the surface, #EDE9C0 for borders, #9B954B for secondary text, #1549B7 as an accent and #70690F for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F7DAC4 and #E2F7C4 stays calm, while #C4C8F7 is the loudest partner.

What is #f7f3c4 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 2%, 21%, 3%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — a color this saturated sits outside most CMYK gamuts and will print duller than it looks here.

Is #f7f3c4 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 21 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F7E0C4; nudged cooler, #E9F8C4.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f7f3c4?

The yellow family — its 500 step is #eab308, ΔE2000 23 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f7f3c4 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f7f3c4 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f7f3c4] or text-[#f7f3c4], 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 #f7f3c4 with 50% opacity?

rgba(247, 243, 196, 0.5), or #f7f3c480 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FBF9E2; over black, #7C7A62.

Is #f7f3c4 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFCC, ΔE2000 2.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f7f3c4 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 #f7f3c4?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FDFBED, #f7f3c4 45%, #70690F). For more colour, a short hue run to #C2F3A9 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f7f3c4 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f7f3c4 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.