Beeswax#FEF2C7, a warm light gold

Beeswax in RGB, HSL, OKLCH & more

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ART is Rhapsody's perceptual model. How ART works

What kind of yellow is Beeswax?

Every color has a place in the standard vocabulary. This is Beeswax's, measured rather than asserted.

Beeswax's Munsell numbers: hue 5.1Y, value 9.5 (how light), chroma 5.8 (how vivid). That places it in ISCC-NBS block light yellow, one of 267 named ranges the standard sorts every color into. Chroma 5.8 is low. This is a greyed, muted yellow, nearer neutral than vivid, which is why it reads as a surface rather than an accent.

There's still some room before it hits the edge of what your screen can show for this hue. It could go a little more saturated and stay in gamut.

Munsell coordinates and block from the ISCC-NBS system, computed by Rhapsody's own renotation inversion.

Shades of Beeswax, lighter and darker

For hover states, washed backgrounds, and dark surfaces that still read as #FEF2C7. 13 steps, spaced evenly by eye, with the color itself sitting at its natural depth, beeswax-100.

Tints (light surfaces; dark text passes on every one)

Midtones (the color at full strength, for brand & accent work)

Shades (dark surfaces; light text passes on every one)

Is Beeswax accessible? Contrast with white & black

Strong contrast makes your work readable by everyone, and meets the WCAG standard accessibility law points at. AA is the floor; AAA is the tier worth aiming for in body text. Black text on #FEF2C7 clears WCAG AAA. Every strip below is one surface, and the marks are the steps that reach AAA on it.

Rows are text, columns are background · 68 of 210 pairings reach WCAG 2.2 AAA, shown here.

Beeswax in CMYK: one value for files, one per press

None of these presses can print this color. It's lighter than the paper, and ink only darkens a sheet, so the brightest thing on a printed page is the page itself. So what do you do? Pick a brighter stock, or let the paper be your lightest tone and build the contrast somewhere else.

In CMYK, #FEF2C7 is C0 · M4.7 · Y21.7 · K0.4. That is the value design tools and file formats use when no press is involved.

On press (what each standard prints)

Press values computed through the ICC characterization data each standard proofs against. Each CMYK above is the closest that standard can get. None of them reaches the color. It sits above the paper's own white.

Colors similar to Beeswax

Here are other colors similar to Beeswax along with accessible text pairings and whether or not they're print-safe. Explore The Golds

Colors that go with Beeswax

The complementary color, straight across the wheel, is a cool bold blue #3E5AA4. Rhapsody's pick is the split complement, just to one side of it, a livelier pair.

The accent is for the moments that need attention, the harmony for the ones that need calm; the vivid is the same color with the volume up, for when it has to shout.

Take Beeswax with you

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