Photo in the color Arylide yellow
Pictured: Arylide yellow, the closest color we have a photo of (#E9D66B)
rgb(227, 207, 87)
#E3CF57

Banana #E3CF57 RGB Color Code

Banana (#E3CF57) is a moderately saturated, light yellow. In RGB it is made of 89% red, 81% green and 34% blue (R 227, G 207, B 87). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 51°, 71% saturation and 62% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.616, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 9% magenta, 62% yellow and 11% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a warm color. It goes well with cool blues and greens for contrast. For a matching look, use nearby warm tones.

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Banana color codes

#E3CF57 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #E3CF57 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(227, 207, 87) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(51, 71%, 62%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(51, 62%, 89%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(51 34% 11%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 9%, 62%, 11%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(84.87% 0.1404 99.87) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(84.87% -0.0241 0.1384) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(83.13% -3.05 60.36) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(83.13% 60.44 92.89) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.8769 0.8145 0.417) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.5571 0.6165 0.1798) Valid CSS
Decimal 14929751 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.6164. Nearest web-safe color: #CCCC66.

Mix Banana with other colors

See what #E3CF57 makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintBanana and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightBanana and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintBanana and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalBanana blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Banana in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

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CSS variable--banana: #E3CF57;
Sass variable$banana: #E3CF57;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-banana: #E3CF57; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'banana': '#E3CF57' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.89, green: 0.812, blue: 0.341)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.89, green: 0.812, blue: 0.341, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="banana">#FFE3CF57</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFE3CF57)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #E3CF57 (13.33:1, AAA). Here is how #E3CF57 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.58:1 on white
APCA Lc 26
Fails AATry #877700
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
13.33:1 on black
APCA Lc -77
AAA

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Banana

#E3CF57 next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

#E3CF57 stays easy to tell apart from its complement and triadic colors for the common types of color blindness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Banana

A plain fruit name

Banana is a soft, slightly dull yellow. We found no color book or official standard that defines #E3CF57, so the name simply describes the fruit. This site also lists a brighter banana yellow, #FFE135. More yellows are on the shades of yellow page.

Why ripe bananas turn yellow

The yellow peel most shoppers know comes from ripening at about 18 °C (64 °F). Wikipedia's banana article notes that Cavendish bananas ripened above 27 °C (81 °F) stay green. The word banana probably came from West Africa, maybe from the Wolof word banaana, and reached English through Spanish or Portuguese.

Banana in a user interface

A sample app screen with #E3CF57 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #E3CF57 as it is. On the light theme, #E3CF57 is too hard to read as text (1.58:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #877700 there (4.50:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Banana

These schemes turn the hue of #E3CF57 around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#E3CF57#576BE3

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#E38957this#E3CF57#B1E357

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#E3CF57#57E3CF#CF57E3

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#E3CF57#57B1E3#8957E3

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#E3CF57#6BE357#576BE3#CF57E3

Square

Four hues 90° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#E3CF57#57E389#576BE3#E357B1

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#574D0F#9E8C1A#DCC42F#E8D876#F4ECBD

Gradients with Banana

Four CSS gradients made from #E3CF57. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #F9F6E1, #E3CF57);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #E3CF57, #3F3812);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #E38957, #E3CF57, #B1E357);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #E3CF57, #ABDB9B, #57E3CF);

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Shades, tints and tones of Banana

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Banana sits at step 300. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FEF8D3
  2. 100
    F7EFBD
  3. 200
    E8DD98
  4. 300
    E3CF57
  5. 400
    B7A42E
  6. 500
    998700
  7. 600
    7B6C00
  8. 700
    625600
  9. 800
    4C4300
  10. 900
    383100
  11. 950
    221D00

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #E3CF57 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 1018 Zinc yellow#FACA30, very close (ΔE 3.6)Tailwind CSSamber-300 #FCD34D, very close (ΔE 3.9)CSS color namesgold #FFD700, close (ΔE 5.8)

ΔE is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of yellow or search the color library.