Pale Goldenrod

Hex #EEE8AA, rgb(238 232 170). A yellow CSS named color.

Pale Goldenrod#EEE8AA

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About Pale Goldenrod

Pale Goldenrod is a very light moderately saturated yellow with the hex code #EEE8AA. In RGB it is made of 238 red, 232 green and 170 blue; in HSL its hue is 55°, with 67% saturation and 80% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 92.1%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "palegoldenrod" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.25:1 and against black 16.76:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Pale Goldenrod 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 Pale Goldenrod

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

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Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

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

Pale Goldenrod textSmall text on white

On white1.25:1

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

APCA Lc 13

Pale Goldenrod textSmall text on black

On black16.76:1

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

APCA Lc -91

Black text on Pale Goldenrod (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

Protanopia#F3E4A6
Deuteranopia#F5E7AC
Tritanopia#F8E0D8
Protanomaly#F2E5A8
Deuteranomaly#F4E7AB
Tritanomaly#F1E5C1
Achromatopsia#E6E6E6

Colors similar to Pale Goldenrod

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Pale Goldenrod in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.pale-goldenrod {
  color: palegoldenrod; /* #EEE8AA */
  background-color: rgb(238 232 170);
  border-color: oklch(92.1% 0.08 103.2);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-pale-goldenrod-500, text-pale-goldenrod-700... */
@theme {
  --color-pale-goldenrod-50: #FEFCE1;
  --color-pale-goldenrod-100: #EEE8AA;
  --color-pale-goldenrod-200: #E5D754;
  --color-pale-goldenrod-300: #CDBC00;
  --color-pale-goldenrod-400: #A79900;
  --color-pale-goldenrod-500: #8F8300;
  --color-pale-goldenrod-600: #7B7000;
  --color-pale-goldenrod-700: #635A00;
  --color-pale-goldenrod-800: #4F4800;
  --color-pale-goldenrod-900: #413B00;
  --color-pale-goldenrod-950: #1A1700;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#EEE8AA] text-[#000000]">…</div>