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Pictured: Heart Gold, the closest color we have a photo of (#808000)
rgb(115, 112, 0)
#737000

Bronze Yellow #737000 RGB Color Code

Bronze Yellow (#737000) is a moderately saturated, medium yellow. In RGB it is made of 45% red, 44% green and 0% blue (R 115, G 112, B 0). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 58°, 100% saturation and 23% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.152, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 3% magenta, 100% yellow and 55% 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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Bronze Yellow color codes

#737000 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #737000 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(115, 112, 0) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(58, 100%, 23%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(58, 100%, 45%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(58 0% 55%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 3%, 100%, 55%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(53.06% 0.1143 107.88) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(53.06% -0.0351 0.1088) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(46.22% -7.18 51.27) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(46.22% 51.77 97.97) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.4489 0.4396 0.1266) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.1286 0.1523 0.0226) Valid CSS
Decimal 7565312 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1523. Nearest web-safe color: #666600.

Mix Bronze Yellow with other colors

See what #737000 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.

PaintBronze Yellow and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightBronze Yellow and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintBronze Yellow and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalBronze Yellow blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Bronze Yellow 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--bronze-yellow: #737000;
Sass variable$bronze-yellow: #737000;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-bronze-yellow: #737000; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'bronze-yellow': '#737000' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.451, green: 0.439, blue: 0)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.451, green: 0.439, blue: 0, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="bronze_yellow">#FF737000</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF737000)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #737000 (5.19:1, AA). Here is how #737000 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
5.19:1 on white
APCA Lc 76
AA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4.05:1 on black
APCA Lc -26
AA LargeTry #7A7711

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 Bronze Yellow

#737000 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

#737000 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 Bronze Yellow

A Crayola pencil color

Bronze Yellow is a Crayola colored pencil, not a crayon. The collector site Jenny's Crayon Collection lists it in the 36 and 50 pencil boxes. It is also in the box of 100 different pencil colors that Crayola first made in 2016. Her chart gives the pencil the value #A79752, a dull khaki.

Why this page shows #737000

#737000 is the value that Wikipedia's list of colors used for Bronze Yellow around 2017. It is much darker than the pencil and looks like a deep olive. In fact it sits close to olive, #808000. Mineral guides also use bronze yellow as a plain word for the color of some metal ores, such as millerite. For a true metal look, see bronze.

Bronze Yellow in a user interface

A sample app screen with #737000 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #737000 as it is. On the dark theme, #737000 is too hard to read as text (3.42:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #868424 there (4.52:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Bronze Yellow

These schemes turn the hue of #737000 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#737000#000373

Analogous

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

Open palette
#733700this#737000#3D7300

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#737000#007370#700073

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#737000#003C73#370073

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#737000#037300#000373#700073

Square

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

Open palette
this#737000#007337#000373#73003D

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#666300#B9B400#FFF90D#FFFB60#FFFDB3

Gradients with Bronze Yellow

Four CSS gradients made from #737000. 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, #E1E1D0, #737000);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #737000, #1B1A00);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #733700, #737000, #3D7300);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #737000, #4E734B, #007370);

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Shades, tints and tones of Bronze Yellow

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)

Bronze Yellow sits at step 600. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    F9F9DB
  2. 100
    F0F0C8
  3. 200
    DFDFA8
  4. 300
    C6C67E
  5. 400
    AAA852
  6. 500
    8D8B2D
  7. 600
    737000
  8. 700
    5B5900
  9. 800
    474500
  10. 900
    343200
  11. 950
    1F1E05

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #737000 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 6025 Fern green#53753C, close (ΔE 5.2)Tailwind CSSlime-700 #4D7C0F, close (ΔE 5.8)CSS color namesolive #808000, close (ΔE 5.2)

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.