Photo in the color Unmellow Yellow
Pictured: Unmellow Yellow, the closest color we have a photo of (#FFFF66)
rgb(253, 255, 99)
#FDFF63

Canary #FDFF63 RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Canary (#FDFF63) is a vivid, very light yellow. In RGB it is made of 99% red, 100% green and 39% blue (R 253, G 255, B 99). The green channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 61°, 100% saturation and 69% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.933, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 1% cyan, 0% magenta, 61% yellow and 0% 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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Canary color codes

#FDFF63 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #FDFF63 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(253, 255, 99) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(61, 100%, 69%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(61, 61%, 100%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(61 39% 0%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(1%, 0%, 61%, 0%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(97.05% 0.1739 109.94) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(97.05% -0.0593 0.1635) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(97.75% -14.44 71.45) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(97.75% 72.9 101.42) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.9936 0.9997 0.4876) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.7852 0.933 0.2568) Valid CSS
Decimal 16645987 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.9330. Nearest web-safe color: #FFFF66.

Mix Canary with other colors

See what #FDFF63 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.

PaintCanary and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightCanary and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintCanary and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalCanary blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Canary in your code

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

WhereCodeCopy
CSS variable--canary: #FDFF63;
Sass variable$canary: #FDFF63;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-canary: #FDFF63; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'canary': '#FDFF63' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.992, green: 1, blue: 0.388)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.992, green: 1, blue: 0.388, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="canary">#FFFDFF63</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFFDFF63)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #FDFF63 (19.66:1, AAA). Here is how #FDFF63 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.07:1 on white
APCA Lc 0
Fails AATry #7B7B00
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
19.66:1 on black
APCA Lc -103
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 Canary

#FDFF63 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

#FDFF63 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 Canary

Named for a pet bird

The color takes its name from the domestic canary. That bird is named after Spain's Canary Islands, home of its wild ancestor. Wild canaries are a yellowish green. Breeders made the bright yellow pet bird, and it gave its name to a shade.

Maerz and Paul's A Dictionary of Color of 1930 dates canary yellow as a color name in English to 1789. Today that name often means the yellow ink used in printing, shown here as canary yellow.

Which canary is this?

The code #FDFF63 matches "canary" in the color survey run by the web comic xkcd in 2010, where thousands of people named colors on screen. Wikipedia lists a different Canary, #FFFF99, which is a Crayola crayon sold since 1998. That one is paler. Both are listed on the Wikipedia list of colors A to F. A close match on this site is laser lemon.

Canary in a user interface

A sample app screen with #FDFF63 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #FDFF63 as it is. On the light theme, #FDFF63 is too hard to read as text (1.07:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #7B7B00 there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Canary

These schemes turn the hue of #FDFF63 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#FDFF63#6563FF

Analogous

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

Open palette
#FFB363this#FDFF63#AFFF63

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#FDFF63#63FDFF#FF63FD

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#FDFF63#63AFFF#B363FF

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#FDFF63#63FF65#6563FF#FF63FD

Square

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

Open palette
this#FDFF63#63FFB3#6563FF#FF63AF

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#656600#B7B900#FCFF0D#FDFF60#FEFFB3

Gradients with Canary

Four CSS gradients made from #FDFF63. 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, #FEFFEB, #FDFF63);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FDFF63, #474816);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FFB363, #FDFF63, #AFFF63);

Edit in the gradient generator

Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FDFF63, #C0FFC1, #63FDFF);

Edit in the gradient generator

Shades, tints and tones of Canary

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)

Canary sits at step 50. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FDFF63
  2. 100
    F0F2B4
  3. 200
    DFE28A
  4. 300
    C7C950
  5. 400
    AAAA00
  6. 500
    8C8C00
  7. 600
    707100
  8. 700
    595900
  9. 800
    454600
  10. 900
    333300
  11. 950
    1F1F00

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #FDFF63 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 1026 Luminous yellow#FFFF00, very close (ΔE 3.7)Tailwind CSSyellow-200 #FEF08A, close (ΔE 6.0)CSS color namesyellow #FFFF00, very close (ΔE 3.7)

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.