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#feffe2

a pale, electric yellow · warm · “Light Yellow”

Token name suggestion: Chalk Brass

RGB
254, 255, 226
HSL
62°, 100%, 94%
CMYK
0, 0, 11, 0
Luminance
0.9808

#feffe2 is a pale electric yellow, 62° on the wheel and 27/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (20.62:1). As text it scores 1.02:1 on white — use #737700 instead. Nearest name is Light Yellow, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(62 100% 94%)rgb(254 255 226)Base step 100AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #feffe2 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#feffe2
Hue
62°
yellow
Saturation
100%
electric
Lightness
94%
pale
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
99%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.9808
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
27/100 cool
Color family
Yellow
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
20.62:1
Closest name
Light Yellow
ΔE2000 0.7
Chroma
14.7
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.992
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 27.2
Web-safe
#FFFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue62° of 360°
Saturation100%
Lightness94%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #feffe2.

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
Red21%
Green73%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#feffe2
HEX (8-digit)#feffe2ff
RGBrgb(254, 255, 226)
RGBArgba(254, 255, 226, 1)
HSLhsl(62, 100%, 94%)
HSV / HSBhsv(62, 11%, 100%)
HWBhwb(62 89% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 0%, 11%, 0%)
LABlab(99.3 -5.1 13.8)
LCHlch(99.3 14.7 110.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.992 0.038 108.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(90.36, 98.08, 86.11)
Decimal16711650
Display P3color(display-p3 0.996 1.000 0.886)
Web-safe#FFFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #feffe2;
background-color: #feffe2;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #feffe2;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#feffe2] bg-[#feffe2]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #feffe2;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.996, green: 1.000, blue: 0.886)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.996, green: 1.000, blue: 0.886, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FEFFE2</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFEFFE2)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFEFFE2)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(226, 255, 254)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(254, 255, 226)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(254, 255, 226)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 254, 255, 226)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9961f, 1.0000f, 0.8863f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{254,255,226}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #feffe2 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #feffe2 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#7B8000, #EDEED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #feffe2 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: #FDFEF1;
  --brand-100: #feffe2;
  --brand-200: #FAFCC0;
  --brand-300: #FBFF8F;
  --brand-400: #F9FF57;
  --brand-500: #F7FF1F;
  --brand-600: #ECF500;
  --brand-700: #C5CC00;
  --brand-800: #9DA300;
  --brand-900: #727605;
  --brand-950: #474903;
  --brand: #feffe2;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAFAF4;
  --brand-border: #EBEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #FDFFBE;
  --brand-pressed: #FBFF9B;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #242414;
    --brand-ink: #EDEED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDFEF1',
        100: '#feffe2',
        200: '#FAFCC0',
        300: '#FBFF8F',
        400: '#F9FF57',
        500: '#F7FF1F',
        600: '#ECF500',
        700: '#C5CC00',
        800: '#9DA300',
        900: '#727605',
        950: '#474903',
        DEFAULT: '#feffe2',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDFEF1,
  '100': #feffe2,
  '200': #FAFCC0,
  '300': #FBFF8F,
  '400': #F9FF57,
  '500': #F7FF1F,
  '600': #ECF500,
  '700': #C5CC00,
  '800': #9DA300,
  '900': #727605,
  '950': #474903,
);
$brand-base: #feffe2;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FDFEF1", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#feffe2", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#FAFCC0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#FBFF8F", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#F9FF57", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#F7FF1F", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#ECF500", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#C5CC00", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#9DA300", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#727605", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#474903", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #feffe2 · 20.62:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.02:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 20.62:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #feffe2 as text scores 1.02:1 on white and 20.62:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #7B8000 at 4.18:1.

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
#737700 · 4.81:1
AA on white−71% L
#737700
The quick fox
#5A5D00 · 7.00:1
AAA on white−76% L
#5A5D00
The quick fox
#feffe2 · 20.62:1
AA on blackalready passes
#feffe2
The quick fox
#feffe2 · 20.62:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#feffe2

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #959B00 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
#feffe2 on white: 1.02:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#feffe2 on black: 20.62:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #feffe2 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #feffe2.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.02:1AaAa
Slate 501.03:1AaAa
Slate 1001.08:1AaAa
Slate 2001.21:1AaAa
Slate 3001.46:1AaAa
Slate 4002.52:1AaAa
Slate 5004.67:1AaAa
Slate 6007.44:1AaAa
Slate 70010.17:1AaAa
Slate 80014.36:1AaAa
Slate 90017.53:1AaAa
Black20.62:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFFCE0
deuteranopia · #FFFDE3
tritanopia · #FFFBF7

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. #feffe2 is pinned to step 100; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FDFEF1
#feffe2
#FAFCC0
#FBFF8F
#F9FF57
#F7FF1F
#ECF500
#C5CC00
#9DA300
#727605
#474903
Base = 100Lightest = 50 · #FDFEF1Darkest = 950 · #474903Text 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 0.009 108.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.015 108.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.023 108.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.029 108.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.035 108.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.038 108.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.038 108.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.035 108.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.032 108.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.026 108.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.021 108.7);
}

Colors that work with #feffe2

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#002ACC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#7B8000
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FEFFE5
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#242414
Dark-mode background
Hover#FDFFBE
One step down in lightness
Pressed#FBFF9B
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FEFFD6
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
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How to use #feffe2

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 #7B8000
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #959B00

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
  • Weight6/100
  • 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#E3E2FF
Analogous left#FFF1E2
Analogous right#EFFFE2
Split-complement 1#E2EFFF
Split-complement 2#F1E2FF
Triadic 1#E2FEFF
Triadic 2#FFE2FE
Tetradic#E2FFF1
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°62°

#feffe2 sits at 62°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red99.6%
Green100.0%
Blue88.6%
R · 0–255
254
0xfe
G · 0–255
255
0xff
B · 0–255
226
0xe2

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.4%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow11.4%
Key (black)0.0%

Total ink coverage is 12%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#feffe2 text on a black background

contrast 20.62:1

Card sample

#feffe2 text on a white background

contrast 1.02:1

Card sample

#feffe2 on grey

1.08:1

#feffe2 on its own surface

1.03:1

#feffe2 on its dark surface

15.41:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #feffe2;
Background color
Panel with #feffe2 background
background-color: #feffe2;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #feffe2;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(254, 255, 226, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(254, 255, 226, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #feffe2;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #feffe2, #EBFFE2);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #feffe2, #E3FFE2);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #feffe2;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #feffe2;
caret-color: #feffe2;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #feffe2;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FEFFE5;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #feffe2;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#feffe2 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #feffe2 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(254, 255, 226, 0.5)
rgb(254 255 226 / 50%)
#feffe280
hsl(62 100% 94% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #feffe2 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#feffe21a#FFFFFC
20%#feffe233#FFFFF9
40%#feffe266#FFFFF3
60%#feffe299#FEFFEE
80%#feffe2cc#FEFFE8

Gradients from #feffe2

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, #FEFFEB, #feffe2 45%, #7B8000);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #feffe2, #D0FFC3);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #feffe2, #E3E2FF);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FEFFF0 0%, #feffe2 45%, #7B8000 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%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #7B8000 0%, transparent 65%), #feffe2;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #feffe2

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.

#feffe2 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 20.62:1.

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.

#feffe2, answered

What color is #feffe2?

#feffe2 is a pale electric yellow — the CSS keyword Light Yellow. It sits at 62° on the hue wheel with 100% saturation and 94% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #feffe2?

rgb(254, 255, 226) — 254 red, 255 green and 226 blue out of 255, or 99.6% / 100% / 88.6% by channel.

What is #feffe2 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(62, 100%, 94%) and hsv(62, 11%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #feffe2 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.9808 and perceived brightness is 99%, so black text on it reaches 20.62:1.

Should I use black or white text on #feffe2?

Black. It scores 20.62:1 against #feffe2, versus 1.02:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #feffe2 accessible on a white background?

#feffe2 on white scores 1.02:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #737700 to reach 4.5:1, or #5A5D00 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #feffe2?

#E3E2FF sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #E2EFFF and #F1E2FF, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #feffe2?

For interface work: #FAFAF4 as the surface, #EBEDC0 for borders, #989B4B for secondary text, #002ACC as an accent and #7B8000 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FFF1E2 and #EFFFE2 stays calm, while #E3E2FF is the loudest partner.

What is #feffe2 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 0%, 11%, 0%). 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 #feffe2 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 #FFF5E2; nudged cooler, #F3FFE2.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #feffe2?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 27.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #feffe2 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #feffe2 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#feffe2] or text-[#feffe2], 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 #feffe2 with 50% opacity?

rgba(254, 255, 226, 0.5), or #feffe280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FFFFF1; over black, #7F8071.

Is #feffe2 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFCC, ΔE2000 5.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #feffe2 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 #feffe2?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FEFFEB, #feffe2 45%, #7B8000). For more colour, a short hue run to #D0FFC3 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #feffe2 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #feffe2 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.