Photo in the color Chrome yellow
Pictured: Chrome yellow
rgb(255, 167, 0)
#FFA700

Chrome Yellow #FFA700 RGB Color Code

Chrome Yellow (#FFA700) is a vivid, light orange. In RGB it is made of 100% red, 65% green and 0% blue (R 255, G 167, B 0). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 39°, 100% saturation and 50% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.489, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 35% magenta, 100% 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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Chrome Yellow color codes

#FFA700 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #FFA700 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(255, 167, 0) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(39, 100%, 50%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(39, 100%, 100%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(39 0% 0%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 35%, 100%, 0%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(79.62% 0.1708 71.71) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(79.62% 0.0536 0.1621) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(76.04% 26.52 79.39) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(76.04% 83.7 71.52) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.9505 0.6703 0.235) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.5506 0.489 0.0654) Valid CSS
Decimal 16754432 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.4890. Nearest web-safe color: #FF9900.

Mix Chrome Yellow with other colors

See what #FFA700 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.

PaintChrome Yellow and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightChrome Yellow and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintChrome Yellow and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalChrome Yellow blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Chrome 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--chrome-yellow: #FFA700;
Sass variable$chrome-yellow: #FFA700;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-chrome-yellow: #FFA700; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'chrome-yellow': '#FFA700' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 1, green: 0.655, blue: 0)
UIKitUIColor(red: 1, green: 0.655, blue: 0, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="chrome_yellow">#FFFFA700</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFFFA700)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #FFA700 (10.78:1, AAA). Here is how #FFA700 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.95:1 on white
APCA Lc 37
Fails AATry #A56A00
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
10.78:1 on black
APCA Lc -65
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 Chrome Yellow

#FFA700 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

#FFA700 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 Chrome Yellow

Made from lead chromate

Chrome yellow began as a paint pigment made of lead chromate. The French chemist Louis Nicolas Vauquelin found the element chromium while he was studying crocoite, a mineral made of lead chromate. Chemists then learned to make the compound in the early 1800s.

The oldest known painting with chrome yellow is by Sir Thomas Lawrence, from before 1810. The first recorded use of the name for a color in English came in 1818.

Van Gogh's sunflowers

Vincent van Gogh used chrome yellow in many paintings, including his Sunflowers series. Over time the pigment can darken and turn brown, and that change shows in some of his works. It also contains lead and a form of chromium that causes cancer, so its use is tightly controlled today. Many artists switched to cadmium yellow, which holds its color better.

The screen version

The code #FFA700 comes from ColorHexa, the source cited by the Wikipedia article on chrome yellow. It is a deep yellow that leans toward orange. Black text reads very well on it, at 10.78 to 1, while white text fails at 1.95 to 1.

For the yellow used on North American school buses, see school bus yellow. More options are on the shades of yellow page.

Chrome Yellow in a user interface

A sample app screen with #FFA700 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #FFA700 as it is. On the light theme, #FFA700 is too hard to read as text (1.95:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #A56A00 there (4.51:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Chrome Yellow

These schemes turn the hue of #FFA700 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#FFA700#0058FF

Analogous

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

Open palette
#FF2800this#FFA700#D8FF00

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#FFA700#00FFA7#A700FF

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#FFA700#00D8FF#2800FF

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#FFA700#58FF00#0058FF#A700FF

Square

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

Open palette
this#FFA700#00FF28#0058FF#FF00D8

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#664300#B97900#FFAB0D#FFC860#FFE5B3

Gradients with Chrome Yellow

Four CSS gradients made from #FFA700. 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, #FFEFDB, #FFA700);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FFA700, #482C00);

Edit in the gradient generator

Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FF2800, #FFA700, #D8FF00);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FFA700, #BFD76D, #00FFA7);

Edit in the gradient generator

Shades, tints and tones of Chrome 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)

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

  1. 50
    FFF5EA
  2. 100
    FFE9CF
  3. 200
    FFD29B
  4. 300
    FFA700
  5. 400
    DD9000
  6. 500
    B77600
  7. 600
    945F00
  8. 700
    764B00
  9. 800
    5D3A00
  10. 900
    452A00
  11. 950
    2B1800

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #FFA700 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 1003 Signal yellow#F9A800, nearly the same (ΔE 1.0)Tailwind CSSamber-500 #F59E0B, very close (ΔE 2.9)CSS color namesorange #FFA500, exact match (ΔE 0.5)

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 orange or search the color library.