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Honey #eba937

Sweetness, backlit.

RGB
235, 169, 55
HSL
38°, 82%, 57%
CMYK
0, 28, 77, 8
Luminance
0.4631

About Honey

Honey, #eba937, is amber with light behind it — gold’s edible cousin. The jar’s gradient from acacia-pale to buckwheat-dark gives the color a whole family, and design borrows the warmest middle.

History

Honey colored everything it preserved: varnishes, meads and manuscripts’ gilding grounds. Its design currency is the farmhouse-modern wave — oak, brass and honey tones replacing gray kitchens worldwide.

Psychology

Honey reads nourishing, golden-hour and generous — amber’s warning register swapped for appetite. It is the wood-and-light color of hospitality.

In design

Honey glows on charcoal and forest, warms cream and oak palettes, and needs darkening (#a05c17-class) for text. Food, coffee and craft branding pour it liberally; interior palettes pair it with sage and terracotta.

In culture

Land of milk and honey, honeymoons, honeyed words: the sweetener writes idioms of abundance. Its color inherits every one.

Brands that own honey

Shades of honey

Every format

HEX#eba937
RGBrgb(235, 169, 55)
HSLhsl(38, 82%, 57%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 28%, 77%, 8%)
LABlab(73.8 14.4 64.6)
LCHlch(73.8 66.2 77.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.779 0.145 76.5)

Copy-ready code

/* CSS */
color: #eba937;
background-color: #eba937;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#eba937] bg-[#eba937]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #eba937;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.922, green: 0.663, blue: 0.216)
/* Android */
Color.parseColor("#eba937")

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#eba937 on white: 2.05:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#eba937 on black: 10.26:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
true color
protanopia
deuteranopia
tritanopia

RGB percentages

Red92.2%
Green66.3%
Blue21.6%

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta28.1%
Yellow76.6%
Key (black)7.8%

Color previews

#eba937 text on a black background

contrast 10.26:1

Card sample

#eba937 text on a white background

contrast 2.05:1

Card sample

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #eba937;
Background color
Panel with #eba937 background
background-color: #eba937;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #eba937;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(235, 169, 55, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(235, 169, 55, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #eba937;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #eba937, #B5EB37);

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #eba937

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Hue & tone neighbors

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Honey, answered

What is the hex code for honey?

Honey is #eba937 — between amber #ffbf00 and caramel #af6f09; pale acacia honeys photograph near #f3c15f.

Honey vs amber vs gold?

Gold is metallic, amber is the warning-capable middle, honey is the edible warm — same neighborhood, three different jobs.

What palettes use honey?

Farmhouse modern (oak, sage, cream), coffee culture (espresso, cream), golden-hour brands (terracotta, blush, brass).

Work with #eba937 in the Color Lab