Cream Can#F5C85C, a warm brilliant gold

At a glanceCream Can is #F5C85C, oklch(85.2% 0.135 86.5), a warm brilliant gold. Match it with a cool bold blue #3E7CC4 as an accent, a warm bold scarlet #E36C4F for harmony, and a warm grayish gold #CBC5BA as a neutral. Put it to work as a brand or accent color, and it takes black text at AA contrast and prints exactly on coated presses.
Color codes

Cream Can in RGB, HSL, OKLCH & more

Ready to ship: every line pastes straight into your codebase, and the whole file copies at once.

f5c85c.css
:root { /* how your code speaks it */ /* how your eyes measure it */ /* how the lab measures it, D65 2° */}/* tailwind v4 */

ART is Rhapsody's perceptual model. How ART works

Color family

What kind of yellow is Cream Can?

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

Cream Can's Munsell numbers: hue 2.5Y, value 8.2 (how light), chroma 8.7 (how vivid). That places it in ISCC-NBS block brilliant yellow, one of 267 named ranges the standard sorts every color into. Chroma 8.7 is moderate. Clearly colored, but not so saturated it fights the colors around it.

It reaches 78% of the way to the edge of your screen's gamut (the palette a screen can actually show) for this hue. Strong, with some headroom left before the screen runs out.

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

Tints & shades

Shades of Cream Can, lighter and darker

For hover states, washed backgrounds, and dark surfaces that still read as #F5C85C. 13 steps, spaced evenly by eye, with the color itself sitting at its natural depth, cream-can-300.

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)

Rhapsody Palette

Most tools mix. Rhapsody measures.

Paste any color. The whole system comes back, contrast-checked before you see it.

Build your palette free

The window on the right was generated from #F5C85C, like this whole page.

Accessibility

Is Cream Can 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 #F5C85C 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.

Rhapsody Palette

Ship the audit, not screenshots.

Run #F5C85C against the colors you actually ship, every pairing and any target, and export it: exact ratios, the AA tier, APCA, in one file.

Get the full audit

The audit on the right was calibrated from #F5C85C, like this whole page.

Print

Cream Can in CMYK: one value for files, one per press

Every held press standard prints this color exactly as it is.

In CMYK, #F5C85C is . That is the value design tools and file formats use when no press is involved.

On press (what each standard prints)

CGATS21 CRPC1 (coldset news) within tolerance
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 2.0, under the 2.5 a press run varies by

GRACoL 2013 Uncoated (CRPC3) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

GRACoL 2013 (CRPC6) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

PSO Coated v3 (FOGRA51) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

Coated FOGRA39 prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

Japan Color 2011 Coated prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

APTEC Flexo Coated prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

CGATS21 CRPC7 (extended gamut) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

Press values computed through the ICC characterization data each standard proofs against. Each CMYK held to prints the color exactly.

Rhapsody Converter · coming soon

No surprises at the printer.

Run any color through the major press standards: FOGRA51, GRACoL, Japan Color, FOGRA39. It's coming soon. Create a free account and you'll get a note the moment it's live.

Create a free account

The strip shows this page's tints and shades on screen, then through a standard GRACoL 2013 conversion.

The Cream Cans

Colors similar to Cream Can

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

Golden TainoiGolden Tainoi#FFCC5Cblack text · AAA! within tolerance
RonchiRonchi#ECC54Eblack text · AAA✓ prints exactly
MaizeMaize#F4D054black text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Light MustardLight Mustard#F7D560black text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Bright SunBright Sun#FED33Cblack text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Golden DreamGolden Dream#F0D52Dblack text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Light GoldLight Gold#FDDC5Cblack text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Energy YellowEnergy Yellow#F8DD5Cblack text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Pale GoldPale Gold#FDDE6Cblack text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Sand YellowSand Yellow#FCE166black text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Yellow TanYellow Tan#FFE36Eblack text · AAA✓ prints exactly
KournikovaKournikova#FFE772black text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Marigold YellowMarigold Yellow#FBE870black text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Vis VisVis Vis#FFEFA1black text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Pairings

Colors that go with Cream Can

The complementary color, straight across the wheel, is a cool vivid blue #2151CE. 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 neutral carries the text and surfaces in between.

Downloads

Take Cream Can with you

The work on this page doesn't stay here. Save a card and the color arrives in your file, your deck or your board already decided.

Cream Can color codes: hex #F5C85C, RGB, HSL, CMYK, and OKLCH, from Rhapsody
Paste it anywhere without coming back for it.
The full tonal scale of Cream Can, 13 steps from light to dark with every hex, from Rhapsody
Reach for the right depth instead of the one you have.
Cream Can paired with a cool bold blue #3E7CC4, a warm bold scarlet #E36C4F, a warm grayish gold #CBC5BA: hex values and roles, from Rhapsody
Open a palette that already works together.
One free account

Your system is already built.

Rhapsody built it before you even asked: the scale, the neutrals, the utilities, every pairing calibrated.

This page's whole theme is built from one color. Palette does the same for yours: every step calibrated, every pairing checked, press included.

Every color on this page was calibrated, not mixed.

One email, when there is something to say. We’ll send a link to confirm · Privacy