Gold

Hex #FFD700, rgb(255 215 0). A yellow CSS named color.

Gold#FFD700

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About Gold

Gold is a very light saturated yellow with the hex code #FFD700. In RGB it is made of 255 red, 215 green and 0 blue; in HSL its hue is 51°, with 100% saturation and 50% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 88.7%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "gold" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.40:1 and against black 14.97:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Gold mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

Tints (with white)

Shades (with black)

Tones (with gray)

Gold 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Gold

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

Complementary

Analogous

Triadic

Split complementary

Tetradic

Square

Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Gold with white and black. The readable text color on Gold is black.

Gold textSmall text on white

On white1.40:1

AA fail
AA Large fail
AAA fail
UI 3:1 fail

APCA Lc 19

Gold textSmall text on black

On black14.97:1

AA pass
AA Large pass
AAA pass
UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -84

Black text on Gold (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Gold appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

Protanopia#F0D300
Deuteranopia#FADF24
Tritanopia#FFC4B7
Protanomaly#F4D500
Deuteranomaly#FADC19
Tritanomaly#FFD080
Achromatopsia#DADADA

Colors similar to Gold

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Gold in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.gold {
  color: gold; /* #FFD700 */
  background-color: rgb(255 215 0);
  border-color: oklch(88.7% 0.182 95.3);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-gold-500, text-gold-700... */
@theme {
  --color-gold-50: #FFFAE8;
  --color-gold-100: #FFEDA8;
  --color-gold-200: #FFD700;
  --color-gold-300: #DFBC00;
  --color-gold-400: #B69900;
  --color-gold-500: #9C8300;
  --color-gold-600: #867000;
  --color-gold-700: #6C5A00;
  --color-gold-800: #574800;
  --color-gold-900: #473A00;
  --color-gold-950: #1C1600;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#FFD700] text-[#000000]">…</div>