Photo in the color Champagne
Pictured: Champagne, the closest color we have a photo of (#FAD6A5)
rgb(246, 225, 156)
#F6E19C

Buttery Croissant #F6E19C RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Buttery Croissant (#F6E19C) is a moderately saturated, very light yellow. In RGB it is made of 96% red, 88% green and 61% blue (R 246, G 225, B 156). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 46Β°, 83% saturation and 79% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.758, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 9% magenta, 37% yellow and 4% 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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Buttery Croissant color codes

#F6E19C in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #F6E19C Valid CSS
RGB rgb(246, 225, 156) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(46, 83%, 79%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(46, 37%, 96%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(46 61% 4%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 9%, 37%, 4%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(91.12% 0.0902 93.16) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(91.12% -0.005 0.0901) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(90.09% 0.37 36.56) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(90.09% 36.56 89.43) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.9508 0.8853 0.6445) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.7093 0.7584 0.4236) Valid CSS
Decimal 16179612 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.7584. Nearest web-safe color: #FFCC99.

Mix Buttery Croissant with other colors

See what #F6E19C 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.

Use Buttery Croissant in your code

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

WhereCodeCopy
CSS variable--buttery-croissant: #F6E19C;
Sass variable$buttery-croissant: #F6E19C;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-buttery-croissant: #F6E19C; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'buttery-croissant': '#F6E19C' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.965, green: 0.882, blue: 0.612)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.965, green: 0.882, blue: 0.612, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="buttery_croissant">#FFF6E19C</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFF6E19C)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #F6E19C (16.17:1, AAA). Here is how #F6E19C does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.30:1 on white
APCA Lc 15
Fails AATry #897532
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
16.17:1 on black
APCA Lc -89
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 Buttery Croissant

#F6E19C 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

#F6E19C 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.

Buttery Croissant in a user interface

A sample app screen with #F6E19C as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #F6E19C as it is. On the light theme, #F6E19C is too hard to read as text (1.30:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #897532 there (4.51:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Buttery Croissant

These schemes turn the hue of #F6E19C 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

Analogous

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

Open palette

Triadic

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

Open palette

Split complementary

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

Open palette

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette

Square

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

Open palette

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette

Gradients with Buttery Croissant

Four CSS gradients made from #F6E19C. 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, #FDF9EC, #F6E19C);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F6E19C, #453E28);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #F6B49C, #F6E19C, #DEF69C);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #F6E19C, #CEECC0, #9CF6E1);

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Shades, tints and tones of Buttery Croissant

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)

Buttery Croissant sits at step 200. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FEF7DF
  2. 100
    F6EDCE
  3. 200
    F6E19C
  4. 300
    D1C08A
  5. 400
    B5A263
  6. 500
    998542
  7. 600
    7D6A27
  8. 700
    655414
  9. 800
    4F410A
  10. 900
    3A2F08
  11. 950
    221D09

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #F6E19C in three color systems that designers and builders use.

Ξ”E 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 (Ξ”E in OKLab). Browse all shades of yellow or search the color library.