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#cdc300 color: Dirty Yellow

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57°
100%

OKLCH

80%
0.170
106°
  • ≈ Amber
  • Yellow
  • Light
  • Vivid
  • Neutral
  • yellow-500
  • Black 20%

Looks the same on every screen.

White text1.84:1 · Below AALc -38
Black text11.40:1 · AALc 70

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About #cdc300

#cdc300 is a bright light yellow color. In OKLCH it has 80% lightness, 0.17 chroma and a hue of 106°.

Looks the same on every screen.

White text on it reaches 1.84:1 contrast and black text 11.4:1, so black text reads better.

The closest named color is Dirty Yellow (#cdc50a). In Tailwind CSS the closest color is yellow-500.

More light yellow colors

Lighter: #cdc300 mixed with white

  1. cdc300
  2. d2c93f
  3. d6d05d
  4. dbd675
  5. e0dc8b
  6. e5e2a0
  7. eae8b4
  8. efeec7
  9. f4f4da
  10. faf9ec

Darker: #cdc300 mixed with black

  1. cdc300
  2. b2a900
  3. 989000
  4. 7e7800
  5. 666000
  6. 4e4a00
  7. 383400
  8. 232000
  9. 0f0e00
  10. 020200

Calmer: #cdc300 with less saturation

  1. cdc300
  2. cbc337
  3. c9c34f
  4. c8c262
  5. c6c272
  6. c4c280
  7. c3c18e
  8. c1c09a
  9. c0bfa6
  10. bfbeb2