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#fff032

a balanced, electric yellow · warm · closest name: Yellow

Token name suggestion: Signal Citron

RGB
255, 240, 50
HSL
56°, 100%, 60%
CMYK
0, 6, 80, 0
Luminance
0.8381

#fff032 is a balanced electric yellow, 56° on the wheel and 21/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (17.76:1). As text it scores 1.18:1 on white — use #7E7500 instead. Nearest name is Yellow, nearest Tailwind family is yellow.

hsl(56 100% 60%)rgb(255 240 50)Base step 500AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #fff032 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#fff032
Hue
56°
yellow
Saturation
100%
electric
Lightness
60%
balanced
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
91%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8381
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
21/100 cool
Color family
Yellow
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
17.76:1
Closest name
Yellow
ΔE2000 4.3
Chroma
85.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.938
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
yellow
500 · ΔE 16.6
Web-safe
#FFFF33
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue56° of 360°
Saturation100%
Lightness60%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #fff032.

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
Red25%
Green74%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#fff032
HEX (8-digit)#fff032ff
RGBrgb(255, 240, 50)
RGBArgba(255, 240, 50, 1)
HSLhsl(56, 100%, 60%)
HSV / HSBhsv(56, 80%, 100%)
HWBhwb(56 20% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 6%, 80%, 0%)
LABlab(93.4 -13.6 84.5)
LCHlch(93.4 85.6 99.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.938 0.188 104.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(72.98, 83.81, 15.35)
Decimal16773170
Display P3color(display-p3 1.000 0.941 0.196)
Web-safe#FFFF33

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #fff032;
background-color: #fff032;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #fff032;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#fff032] bg-[#fff032]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #fff032;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 1.000, green: 0.941, blue: 0.196)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 1.000, green: 0.941, blue: 0.196, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FFF032</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFFF032)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFFF032)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(50, 240, 255)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(255, 240, 50)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(255, 240, 50)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 255, 240, 50)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(1.0000f, 0.9412f, 0.1961f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{255,240,50}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #fff032 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #fff032 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#807600, #EEECD3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #fff032 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: #FEFDF1;
  --brand-100: #FCFAE3;
  --brand-200: #FCF7C0;
  --brand-300: #FFF78F;
  --brand-400: #FFF357;
  --brand-500: #fff032;
  --brand-600: #F5E300;
  --brand-700: #CCBD00;
  --brand-800: #A39700;
  --brand-900: #766D05;
  --brand-950: #494403;
  --brand: #fff032;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAFAF4;
  --brand-border: #EDE9C0;
  --brand-hover: #FFED0E;
  --brand-pressed: #EAD800;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #242314;
    --brand-ink: #EEECD3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FEFDF1',
        100: '#FCFAE3',
        200: '#FCF7C0',
        300: '#FFF78F',
        400: '#FFF357',
        500: '#fff032',
        600: '#F5E300',
        700: '#CCBD00',
        800: '#A39700',
        900: '#766D05',
        950: '#494403',
        DEFAULT: '#fff032',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FEFDF1,
  '100': #FCFAE3,
  '200': #FCF7C0,
  '300': #FFF78F,
  '400': #FFF357,
  '500': #fff032,
  '600': #F5E300,
  '700': #CCBD00,
  '800': #A39700,
  '900': #766D05,
  '950': #494403,
);
$brand-base: #fff032;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FEFDF1", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FCFAE3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#FCF7C0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#FFF78F", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#FFF357", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#fff032", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#F5E300", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#CCBD00", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#A39700", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#766D05", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#494403", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #fff032 · 17.76:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.18:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 17.76:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #fff032 as text scores 1.18:1 on white and 17.76:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #807600 at 3.94:1.

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
#7E7500 · 4.74:1
AA on white−35% L
#7E7500
The quick fox
#605900 · 7.18:1
AAA on white−41% L
#605900
The quick fox
#fff032 · 17.76:1
AA on blackalready passes
#fff032
The quick fox
#fff032 · 17.76:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#fff032

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #A29600 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
#fff032 on white: 1.18:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#fff032 on black: 17.76:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #fff032 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #fff032.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.18:1AaAa
Slate 501.13:1AaAa
Slate 1001.08:1AaAa
Slate 2001.04:1AaAa
Slate 3001.26:1AaAa
Slate 4002.17:1AaAa
Slate 5004.03:1AaAa
Slate 6006.41:1AaAa
Slate 7008.76:1AaAa
Slate 80012.37:1AaAa
Slate 90015.10:1AaAa
Black17.76:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFE700
deuteranopia · #FFF043
tritanopia · #FFDFCE

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. #fff032 is pinned to step 500; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FEFDF1
#FCFAE3
#FCF7C0
#FFF78F
#FFF357
#fff032
#F5E300
#CCBD00
#A39700
#766D05
#494403
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #FEFDF1Darkest = 950 · #494403Text 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 0.047 104.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.075 104.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.113 104.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.147 104.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.173 104.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.188 104.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.188 104.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.177 104.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.158 104.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.132 104.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.103 104.6);
}

Colors that work with #fff032

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#3274FF
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#807600
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FFFDE5
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#242314
Dark-mode background
Hover#FFED0E
One step down in lightness
Pressed#EAD800
Two steps down
Disabled#DBD9C6
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FFF146
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 #fff032

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
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • 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 #807600
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #A29600

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 mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight40/100
  • 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#3241FF
Analogous left#FF8932
Analogous right#A8FF32
Split-complement 1#32A8FF
Split-complement 2#8932FF
Triadic 1#32FFF0
Triadic 2#F032FF
Tetradic#32FF89
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°56°

#fff032 sits at 56°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red100.0%
Green94.1%
Blue19.6%
R · 0–255
255
0xff
G · 0–255
240
0xf0
B · 0–255
50
0x32

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta5.9%
Yellow80.4%
Key (black)0.0%

Total ink coverage is 86%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#fff032 text on a black background

contrast 17.76:1

Card sample

#fff032 text on a white background

contrast 1.18:1

Card sample

#fff032 on grey

1.08:1

#fff032 on its own surface

1.13:1

#fff032 on its dark surface

13.40:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #fff032;
Background color
Panel with #fff032 background
background-color: #fff032;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #fff032;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(255, 240, 50, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(255, 240, 50, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #fff032;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #fff032, #85FF32);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fff032, #52FF32);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #fff032;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #fff032;
caret-color: #fff032;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #fff032;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FFFDE5;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #fff032;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#fff032 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #fff032 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(255, 240, 50, 0.5)
rgb(255 240 50 / 50%)
#fff03280
hsl(56 100% 60% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #fff032 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#fff0321a#FFFEEB
20%#fff03233#FFFCD6
40%#fff03266#FFF9AD
60%#fff03299#FFF684
80%#fff032cc#FFF35B

Gradients from #fff032

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, #FFF46F, #fff032 45%, #807600);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #fff032, #60FF13);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fff032, #3241FF);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FFF78E 0%, #fff032 45%, #807600 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%, #FF9A65 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #A6FF51 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #807600 0%, transparent 65%), #fff032;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #fff032

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.

#fff032 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
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

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

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 17.76:1.

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.

#fff032, answered

What color is #fff032?

#fff032 is a balanced electric yellow, closest to Yellow (ΔE2000 4.3). It sits at 56° on the hue wheel with 100% saturation and 60% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #fff032?

rgb(255, 240, 50) — 255 red, 240 green and 50 blue out of 255, or 100% / 94.1% / 19.6% by channel.

What is #fff032 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(56, 100%, 60%) and hsv(56, 80%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #fff032 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8381 and perceived brightness is 91%, so black text on it reaches 17.76:1.

Should I use black or white text on #fff032?

Black. It scores 17.76:1 against #fff032, versus 1.18:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #fff032 accessible on a white background?

#fff032 on white scores 1.18:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #7E7500 to reach 4.5:1, or #605900 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #fff032?

#3241FF sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #32A8FF and #8932FF, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #fff032?

For interface work: #FAFAF4 as the surface, #EDE9C0 for borders, #9B954B for secondary text, #3274FF as an accent and #807600 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FF8932 and #A8FF32 stays calm, while #3241FF is the loudest partner.

What is #fff032 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 6%, 80%, 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 #fff032 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 #FFB932; nudged cooler, #C3FF32.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #fff032?

The yellow family — its 500 step is #eab308, ΔE2000 16.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #fff032 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #fff032 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#fff032] or text-[#fff032], 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 #fff032 with 50% opacity?

rgba(255, 240, 50, 0.5), or #fff03280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FFF899; over black, #807819.

Is #fff032 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFF33, ΔE2000 4.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #fff032 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 #fff032?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FFF46F, #fff032 45%, #807600). For more colour, a short hue run to #60FF13 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #fff032 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #fff032 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.