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Khaki

Hex #F0E68C, rgb(240 230 140). A yellow CSS named color.

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About Khaki

Khaki is a very light moderately saturated yellow with the hex code #F0E68C. In RGB it is made of 240 red, 230 green and 140 blue; in HSL its hue is 54°, with 77% saturation and 75% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 91.3%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "khaki" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.28:1 and against black 16.40:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

Tints (with white)

Shades (with black)

Tones (with gray)

Khaki 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 Khaki

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 Khaki with white and black. The readable text color on Khaki is black.

Khaki textSmall text on white

On white1.28:1

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

APCA Lc 14

Khaki textSmall text on black

On black16.40:1

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

APCA Lc -90

Black text on Khaki (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

  • Protanopia#F5E085
  • Deuteranopia#F8E690
  • Tritanopia#FDDBD0
  • Protanomaly#F4E288
  • Deuteranomaly#F6E58E
  • Tritanomaly#F5E1AF
  • Achromatopsia#E3E3E3

Colors similar to Khaki

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Khaki in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.khaki {
  color: khaki; /* #F0E68C */
  background-color: rgb(240 230 140);
  border-color: oklch(91.3% 0.112 102.8);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-khaki-500, text-khaki-700... */
@theme {
  --color-khaki-50: #FFFCDB;
  --color-khaki-100: #F0E68C;
  --color-khaki-200: #E8D400;
  --color-khaki-300: #CBBA00;
  --color-khaki-400: #A69700;
  --color-khaki-500: #8E8200;
  --color-khaki-600: #7A6F00;
  --color-khaki-700: #625A00;
  --color-khaki-800: #4F4800;
  --color-khaki-900: #413A00;
  --color-khaki-950: #1A1700;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#F0E68C] text-[#000000]">…</div>