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Pictured: Harvest Gold
rgb(218, 145, 0)
#DA9100

Harvest Gold #DA9100 RGB Color Code

Harvest Gold (#DA9100) is a vivid, light orange. In RGB it is made of 85% red, 57% green and 0% blue (R 218, G 145, B 0). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 40°, 100% saturation and 43% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.352, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 33% magenta, 100% yellow and 15% 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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Harvest Gold color codes

#DA9100 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #DA9100 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(218, 145, 0) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(40, 100%, 43%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(40, 100%, 85%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(40 0% 15%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 33%, 100%, 15%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(71.27% 0.1514 73.45) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(71.27% 0.0431 0.1452) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(66.44% 22.08 70.93) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(66.44% 74.28 72.71) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.8135 0.5812 0.198) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.3904 0.3516 0.0473) Valid CSS
Decimal 14323968 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.3516. Nearest web-safe color: #CC9900.

Mix Harvest Gold with other colors

See what #DA9100 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.

PaintHarvest Gold and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightHarvest Gold and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintHarvest Gold and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalHarvest Gold blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Harvest Gold 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--harvest-gold: #DA9100;
Sass variable$harvest-gold: #DA9100;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-harvest-gold: #DA9100; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'harvest-gold': '#DA9100' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.855, green: 0.569, blue: 0)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.855, green: 0.569, blue: 0, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="harvest_gold">#FFDA9100</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFDA9100)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #DA9100 (8.03:1, AAA). Here is how #DA9100 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
2.61:1 on white
APCA Lc 51
Fails AATry #A36B00
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
8.03:1 on black
APCA Lc -51
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 Harvest Gold

#DA9100 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

#DA9100 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 Harvest Gold

First called just harvest

This orange yellow started out in the 1920s under the shorter name harvest. Maerz and Paul's A Dictionary of Color of 1930 dates its first use as a color name in English to 1923. The code #DA9100 matches that book's harvest sample.

The 1970s kitchen

Harvest gold is best known as a color for fridges, stoves and other home appliances in the 1970s. It often came in the same lineup as burnt orange, brown and avocado green. A 1994 book on kitchen collectibles notes that by 1971 one electric appliance was sold in harvest gold, burnt orange and avocado. The Wikipedia article on harvest gold lists these sources. Shag carpets came in it too.

On screen it is a strong, warm yellow. White text on it only reaches 2.61 to 1, so use black text, which gets 8.03 to 1. For a softer metal tone, try old gold.

Harvest Gold in a user interface

A sample app screen with #DA9100 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #DA9100 as it is. On the light theme, #DA9100 is too hard to read as text (2.61:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #A36B00 there (4.51:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Harvest Gold

These schemes turn the hue of #DA9100 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#DA9100#0049DA

Analogous

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

Open palette
#DA2400this#DA9100#B6DA00

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#DA9100#00DA91#9100DA

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#DA9100#00B6DA#2400DA

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#DA9100#49DA00#0049DA#9100DA

Square

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

Open palette
this#DA9100#00DA24#0049DA#DA00B6

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#664400#B97B00#FFAE0D#FFCA60#FFE5B3

Gradients with Harvest Gold

Four CSS gradients made from #DA9100. 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, #F9E9D6, #DA9100);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #DA9100, #3C2500);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #DA2400, #DA9100, #B6DA00);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #DA9100, #A2B95F, #00DA91);

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Shades, tints and tones of Harvest Gold

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)

Harvest Gold sits at step 400. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF5E9
  2. 100
    FFE9CE
  3. 200
    FFD298
  4. 300
    F1B45F
  5. 400
    DA9100
  6. 500
    B57800
  7. 600
    926000
  8. 700
    754B00
  9. 800
    5C3A00
  10. 900
    442A00
  11. 950
    2B1900

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #DA9100 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 1006 Maize yellow#E29000, nearly the same (ΔE 1.4)Tailwind CSSyellow-600 #CA8A04, very close (ΔE 3.4)CSS color namesgoldenrod #DAA520, very close (ΔE 4.8)

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 orange or search the color library.