#FFED00a warm vivid lemon

At a glance#FFED00, oklch(93.1% 0.197 104.0), is a warm vivid lemon, a near match for Post Yellow #FFEE01 or Sailor Moon #FFEE00, fully saturated at the sRGB gamut edge for its hue. It's Sartorius's brand color. Pair it with a cool vivid blue #3F74D8 as an accent, a warm medium orange #CF7E4B for harmony, and a warm faint gold #E0E0D1 as a neutral. Try it as a brand or accent color, and it takes black text at AA contrast. A coated press has to move it a little, by less than a print run varies anyway.
Color codes

#FFED00 in RGB, HSL, OKLCH & more

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Color family

What kind of yellow is #FFED00?

Every color has a place in the standard vocabulary. This is #FFED00's, measured rather than asserted.

#FFED00's Munsell numbers: hue 8.2Y, value 9.2 (how light), chroma 17.0 (how vivid). That places it in ISCC-NBS block vivid greenish yellow, one of 267 named ranges the standard sorts every color into. Chroma 17.0 is about as saturated as named colors get. Nothing muted shares this block.

It reaches 100% of the way to the edge of your screen's gamut (the palette a screen can actually show) for this hue. That's as saturated as #FFED00 gets and still shows up on a normal screen. It's also why no press can reproduce it unchanged, which the print section below explains. Same cause, both effects.

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

Tints & shades

Shades of #FFED00, lighter and darker

For hover states, washed backgrounds, and dark surfaces that still read as #FFED00. 13 steps, spaced evenly by eye, with the color itself sitting at its natural depth, lemon-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

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Accessibility

Is #FFED00 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 #FFED00 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 · 64 of 210 pairings reach WCAG 2.2 AAA, shown here.

Rhapsody Palette

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Print

#FFED00 in CMYK: one value for files, one per press

Presses move this color a little, by less than a print run varies anyway, so a printer would call it a match. The pairs below show where each standard lands.

In CMYK, #FFED00 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) shifts on press
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 6.0, 2.4× the 2.5 a run varies by

GRACoL 2013 Uncoated (CRPC3) within tolerance
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 2.4, under the 2.5 a press run varies by

GRACoL 2013 (CRPC6) within tolerance
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 0.6, under the 2.5 a press run varies by

PSO Coated v3 (FOGRA51) within tolerance
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 0.9, under the 2.5 a press run varies by

Coated FOGRA39 within tolerance
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 0.8, under the 2.5 a press run varies by

Japan Color 2011 Coated prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

APTEC Flexo Coated within tolerance
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 0.7, under the 2.5 a press run varies by

CGATS21 CRPC7 (extended gamut) within tolerance
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 0.6, under the 2.5 a press run varies by

Press values computed through the ICC characterization data each standard proofs against. Each CMYK above is the closest that standard can get, near enough that a press run's own variation is the larger difference.

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

The Lemons

Colors similar to #FFED00

Explore The Lemons

The row runs warmer on the left, cooler on the right.

The wheel's warm pole sits near Pumpkin, its cool pole near Goluboy.

Named colors near this one: Post Yellow #FFEE01 (via color-name-list) · Sailor Moon #FFEE00 (via color-name-list) · Lemon Curd #FFEE11 (via color-name-list) · Pure Sunshine #FFEE15 (via color-name-list) · Aureolin #FDEE00 (via color-name-list)

Pairings

Colors that go with #FFED00

The complementary color, straight across the wheel, is a cool vivid indigo #4A44D0. 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 #FFED00 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.

#FFED00 color codes: hex #FFED00, RGB, HSL, CMYK, and OKLCH, from Rhapsody
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The full tonal scale of #FFED00, 13 steps from light to dark with every hex, from Rhapsody
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#FFED00 paired with a cool vivid blue #3F74D8, a warm medium orange #CF7E4B, a warm faint gold #E0E0D1: hex values and roles, from Rhapsody
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