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Pictured: Topaz, the closest color we have a photo of (#FFC87C)
rgb(253, 198, 117)
#FDC675

Liquid Gold #FDC675 RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Liquid Gold (#FDC675) is a moderately saturated, light orange. In RGB it is made of 99% red, 78% green and 46% blue (R 253, G 198, B 117). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 36°, 97% saturation and 73% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.626, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 22% magenta, 54% yellow and 1% 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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Liquid Gold color codes

#FDC675 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #FDC675 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(253, 198, 117) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(36, 97%, 73%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(36, 54%, 99%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(36 46% 1%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 22%, 54%, 1%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(85.91% 0.1171 75.8) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(85.91% 0.0287 0.1135) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(83.66% 13.56 48.06) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(83.66% 49.94 74.24) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.9585 0.7849 0.506) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.6391 0.6256 0.2554) Valid CSS
Decimal 16631413 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.6256. Nearest web-safe color: #FFCC66.

Mix Liquid Gold with other colors

See what #FDC675 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.

PaintLiquid Gold and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightLiquid Gold and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintLiquid Gold and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalLiquid Gold blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Liquid 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--liquid-gold: #FDC675;
Sass variable$liquid-gold: #FDC675;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-liquid-gold: #FDC675; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'liquid-gold': '#FDC675' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.992, green: 0.776, blue: 0.459)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.992, green: 0.776, blue: 0.459, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="liquid_gold">#FFFDC675</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFFDC675)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #FDC675 (13.51:1, AAA). Here is how #FDC675 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.55:1 on white
APCA Lc 25
Fails AATry #9F6D0C
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
13.51:1 on black
APCA Lc -78
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 Liquid Gold

#FDC675 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

#FDC675 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 Liquid Gold

A gilding term first

Before it was a color name, liquid gold was a real material. Dictionary.com defines it as finely divided gold held in a vegetable oil, used mostly to gild china. It dates the term to about 1835 to 1845.

A pearly crayon with another code

Crayola sold a Liquid Gold crayon in its box of Pearl Crayons from 2019. The list of Crayola crayon colors gives that crayon as #FFD966. Our #FDC675 is a little more orange, so the two codes do not match. We found no source for #FDC675 itself. For metal tones, see gold or old gold.

Liquid Gold in a user interface

A sample app screen with #FDC675 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #FDC675 as it is. On the light theme, #FDC675 is too hard to read as text (1.55:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #9F6D0C there (4.50:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Liquid Gold

These schemes turn the hue of #FDC675 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#FDC675#75ACFD

Analogous

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

Open palette
#FD8275this#FDC675#F0FD75

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#FDC675#75FDC6#C675FD

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#FDC675#75F0FD#8275FD

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#FDC675#ACFD75#75ACFD#C675FD

Square

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

Open palette
this#FDC675#75FD82#75ACFD#FD75F0

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#653C01#B66E03#FC9C10#FDBE62#FEE0B4

Gradients with Liquid Gold

Four CSS gradients made from #FDC675. 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, #FFF4E5, #FDC675);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FDC675, #47351C);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FD8275, #FDC675, #F0FD75);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FDC675, #C9E39F, #75FDC6);

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Shades, tints and tones of Liquid 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)

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

  1. 50
    FFF5E8
  2. 100
    FFE9CC
  3. 200
    FDC675
  4. 300
    E5B979
  5. 400
    CB994C
  6. 500
    AE7B24
  7. 600
    906100
  8. 700
    734D00
  9. 800
    5A3B00
  10. 900
    432B00
  11. 950
    281A03

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #FDC675 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 1018 Zinc yellow#FACA30, close (ΔE 5.8)Tailwind CSSorange-300 #FDBA74, very close (ΔE 3.0)CSS color namesburlywood #DEB887, close (ΔE 6.7)

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 orange or search the color library.