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#f6ffaf

a light, electric yellow · warm · closest name: Pale Goldenrod

Token name suggestion: Meadow Brass

RGB
246, 255, 175
HSL
67°, 100%, 84%
CMYK
4, 0, 31, 0
Luminance
0.9421

#f6ffaf is a light electric yellow, 67° on the wheel and 31/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (19.84:1). As text it scores 1.06:1 on white — use #6E7C00 instead. Nearest name is Pale Goldenrod, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(67 100% 84%)rgb(246 255 175)Base step 200AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f6ffaf is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f6ffaf
Hue
67°
yellow
Saturation
100%
electric
Lightness
84%
light
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
96%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.9421
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
31/100 cool
Color family
Yellow
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
19.84:1
Closest name
Pale Goldenrod
ΔE2000 6.4
Chroma
40.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.975
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 19.8
Web-safe
#FFFF99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue67° of 360°
Saturation100%
Lightness84%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f6ffaf.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool31% 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%
Green76%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#f6ffaf
HEX (8-digit)#f6ffafff
RGBrgb(246, 255, 175)
RGBArgba(246, 255, 175, 1)
HSLhsl(67, 100%, 84%)
HSV / HSBhsv(67, 31%, 100%)
HWBhwb(67 69% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(4%, 0%, 31%, 0%)
LABlab(97.7 -15.1 37.3)
LCHlch(97.7 40.3 112.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.975 0.101 113.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(81.50, 94.21, 54.44)
Decimal16187311
Display P3color(display-p3 0.965 1.000 0.686)
Web-safe#FFFF99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f6ffaf;
background-color: #f6ffaf;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f6ffaf;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f6ffaf] bg-[#f6ffaf]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f6ffaf;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.965, green: 1.000, blue: 0.686)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.965, green: 1.000, blue: 0.686, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F6FFAF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF6FFAF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF6FFAF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(175, 255, 246)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(246, 255, 175)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(246, 255, 175)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 246, 255, 175)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9647f, 1.0000f, 0.6863f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{246,255,175}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f6ffaf 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f6ffaf 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#718000, #EBEED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f6ffaf 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: #FCFEF1;
  --brand-100: #F9FCE3;
  --brand-200: #f6ffaf;
  --brand-300: #F2FF8F;
  --brand-400: #ECFF57;
  --brand-500: #E6FF1F;
  --brand-600: #D9F500;
  --brand-700: #B5CC00;
  --brand-800: #91A300;
  --brand-900: #697605;
  --brand-950: #424903;
  --brand: #f6ffaf;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAFAF4;
  --brand-border: #E8EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #F2FF8B;
  --brand-pressed: #EEFF68;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #232414;
    --brand-ink: #EBEED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FCFEF1',
        100: '#F9FCE3',
        200: '#f6ffaf',
        300: '#F2FF8F',
        400: '#ECFF57',
        500: '#E6FF1F',
        600: '#D9F500',
        700: '#B5CC00',
        800: '#91A300',
        900: '#697605',
        950: '#424903',
        DEFAULT: '#f6ffaf',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FCFEF1,
  '100': #F9FCE3,
  '200': #f6ffaf,
  '300': #F2FF8F,
  '400': #ECFF57,
  '500': #E6FF1F,
  '600': #D9F500,
  '700': #B5CC00,
  '800': #91A300,
  '900': #697605,
  '950': #424903,
);
$brand-base: #f6ffaf;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FCFEF1", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F9FCE3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#f6ffaf", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#F2FF8F", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#ECFF57", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#E6FF1F", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#D9F500", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#B5CC00", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#91A300", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#697605", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#424903", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f6ffaf · 19.84:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.06:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 19.84:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f6ffaf as text scores 1.06:1 on white and 19.84:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #718000 at 4.14:1.

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
#6E7C00 · 4.62:1
AA on white−60% L
#6E7C00
The quick fox
#535D00 · 7.16:1
AAA on white−66% L
#535D00
The quick fox
#f6ffaf · 19.84:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f6ffaf
The quick fox
#f6ffaf · 19.84:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f6ffaf

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #899B00 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
#f6ffaf on white: 1.06:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f6ffaf on black: 19.84:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f6ffaf as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f6ffaf.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.06:1AaAa
Slate 501.01:1AaAa
Slate 1001.04:1AaAa
Slate 2001.16:1AaAa
Slate 3001.40:1AaAa
Slate 4002.42:1AaAa
Slate 5004.50:1AaAa
Slate 6007.16:1AaAa
Slate 7009.78:1AaAa
Slate 80013.82:1AaAa
Slate 90016.87:1AaAa
Black19.84:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFF7A9
deuteranopia · #FFF9B2
tritanopia · #FFF6EA

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. #f6ffaf 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.

#FCFEF1
#F9FCE3
#f6ffaf
#F2FF8F
#ECFF57
#E6FF1F
#D9F500
#B5CC00
#91A300
#697605
#424903
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #FCFEF1Darkest = 950 · #424903Text 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 0.025 113.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.040 113.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.061 113.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.079 113.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.093 113.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.101 113.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.101 113.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.095 113.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.085 113.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.071 113.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.056 113.5);
}

Colors that work with #f6ffaf

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#E8EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#929B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#001CCC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#718000
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FCFFE5
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#232414
Dark-mode background
Hover#F2FF8B
One step down in lightness
Pressed#EEFF68
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F8FFC3
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 #f6ffaf

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 #718000
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #899B00

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 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
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight16/100
  • 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#B8AFFF
Analogous left#FFE0AF
Analogous right#CEFFAF
Split-complement 1#AFCEFF
Split-complement 2#E0AFFF
Triadic 1#AFF6FF
Triadic 2#FFAFF6
Tetradic#AFFFE0
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°67°

#f6ffaf sits at 67°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red96.5%
Green100.0%
Blue68.6%
R · 0–255
246
0xf6
G · 0–255
255
0xff
B · 0–255
175
0xaf

CMYK percentages

Cyan3.5%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow31.4%
Key (black)0.0%

Total ink coverage is 35%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#f6ffaf text on a black background

contrast 19.84:1

Card sample

#f6ffaf text on a white background

contrast 1.06:1

Card sample

#f6ffaf on grey

1.04:1

#f6ffaf on its own surface

1.01:1

#f6ffaf on its dark surface

14.87:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f6ffaf;
Background color
Panel with #f6ffaf background
background-color: #f6ffaf;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f6ffaf;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(246, 255, 175, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(246, 255, 175, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f6ffaf;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f6ffaf, #C1FFAF);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f6ffaf, #AFFFB1);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f6ffaf;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f6ffaf;
caret-color: #f6ffaf;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f6ffaf;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FCFFE5;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f6ffaf;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f6ffaf 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f6ffaf 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(246, 255, 175, 0.5)
rgb(246 255 175 / 50%)
#f6ffaf80
hsl(67 100% 84% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f6ffaf 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f6ffaf1a#FEFFF7
20%#f6ffaf33#FDFFEF
40%#f6ffaf66#FBFFDF
60%#f6ffaf99#FAFFCF
80%#f6ffafcc#F8FFBF

Gradients from #f6ffaf

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, #FDFFEB, #f6ffaf 45%, #718000);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f6ffaf, #A0FF90);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f6ffaf, #B8AFFF);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FDFFF0 0%, #f6ffaf 45%, #718000 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%, #FFF1E2 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #DDFFCE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #718000 0%, transparent 65%), #f6ffaf;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f6ffaf

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.

#f6ffaf 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 19.84:1.

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.

#f6ffaf, answered

What color is #f6ffaf?

#f6ffaf is a light electric yellow, closest to Pale Goldenrod (ΔE2000 6.4). It sits at 67° on the hue wheel with 100% saturation and 84% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #f6ffaf?

rgb(246, 255, 175) — 246 red, 255 green and 175 blue out of 255, or 96.5% / 100% / 68.6% by channel.

What is #f6ffaf in HSL and HSV?

hsl(67, 100%, 84%) and hsv(67, 31%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f6ffaf a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.9421 and perceived brightness is 96%, so black text on it reaches 19.84:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f6ffaf?

Black. It scores 19.84:1 against #f6ffaf, versus 1.06:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f6ffaf accessible on a white background?

#f6ffaf on white scores 1.06:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #6E7C00 to reach 4.5:1, or #535D00 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f6ffaf?

#B8AFFF sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #AFCEFF and #E0AFFF, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f6ffaf?

For interface work: #FAFAF4 as the surface, #E8EDC0 for borders, #929B4B for secondary text, #001CCC as an accent and #718000 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FFE0AF and #CEFFAF stays calm, while #B8AFFF is the loudest partner.

What is #f6ffaf in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(4%, 0%, 31%, 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 #f6ffaf warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 31 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FFEBAF; nudged cooler, #D9FFAF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f6ffaf?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 19.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f6ffaf as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f6ffaf in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f6ffaf] or text-[#f6ffaf], 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 #f6ffaf with 50% opacity?

rgba(246, 255, 175, 0.5), or #f6ffaf80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FBFFD7; over black, #7B8058.

Is #f6ffaf a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFF99, ΔE2000 4.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f6ffaf 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 #f6ffaf?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FDFFEB, #f6ffaf 45%, #718000). For more colour, a short hue run to #A0FF90 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f6ffaf in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f6ffaf at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.