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Pictured: Pale gold
rgb(230, 190, 138)
#E6BE8A

Pale Gold #E6BE8A RGB Color Code

Pale Gold (#E6BE8A) is a moderately saturated, light orange. In RGB it is made of 90% red, 75% green and 54% blue (R 230, G 190, B 138). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 34°, 65% saturation and 72% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.555, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 17% magenta, 40% yellow and 10% 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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Pale Gold color codes

#E6BE8A in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #E6BE8A Valid CSS
RGB rgb(230, 190, 138) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(34, 65%, 72%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(34, 40%, 90%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(34 54% 10%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 17%, 40%, 10%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(82.45% 0.0818 73.58) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(82.45% 0.0231 0.0784) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(79.65% 9.72 31.94) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(79.65% 33.39 73.07) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.8768 0.751 0.5678) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.5563 0.5549 0.3183) Valid CSS
Decimal 15122058 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.5548. Nearest web-safe color: #FFCC99.

Mix Pale Gold with other colors

See what #E6BE8A 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.

PaintPale Gold and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightPale Gold and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintPale Gold and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalPale Gold blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Pale 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--pale-gold: #E6BE8A;
Sass variable$pale-gold: #E6BE8A;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-pale-gold: #E6BE8A; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'pale-gold': '#E6BE8A' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.902, green: 0.745, blue: 0.541)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.902, green: 0.745, blue: 0.541, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="pale_gold">#FFE6BE8A</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFE6BE8A)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #E6BE8A (12.10:1, AAA). Here is how #E6BE8A does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.74:1 on white
APCA Lc 31
Fails AATry #95703E
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
12.10:1 on black
APCA Lc -71
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 Pale Gold

#E6BE8A 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

With deuteranopia, #E6BE8A and #8AE6BE look much alike. Don't use these colors alone to tell things apart, for example in a chart. Add labels, patterns or a difference in lightness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Pale Gold

From Crayola's gold crayon

Pale gold is the screen value given for Crayola's Gold crayon. The crayon is metallic, so a flat code can only show its rough hue. The list of Crayola crayon colors says this Gold has been made since 1953.

Some pages say the crayon dates from 1903. Crayola did sell a Gold crayon from 1903 to 1944, but it was a darker, olive shade, #92926E.

Next to other golds

Pale gold is softer and more beige than metallic gold (#D4AF37), and darker than champagne. A flat color can't shine, so for a metal look on screen try a gradient from light to dark gold.

Pale Gold in a user interface

A sample app screen with #E6BE8A as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #E6BE8A as it is. On the light theme, #E6BE8A is too hard to read as text (1.74:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #95703E there (4.50:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Pale Gold

These schemes turn the hue of #E6BE8A 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#E6BE8A#8AB2E6

Analogous

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

Open palette
#E6908Athis#E6BE8A#E0E68A

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#E6BE8A#8AE6BE#BE8AE6

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#E6BE8A#8AE0E6#908AE6

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#E6BE8A#B2E68A#8AB2E6#BE8AE6

Square

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

Open palette
this#E6BE8A#8AE690#8AB2E6#E68AE0

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#543712#986421#D49037#E3B67C#F2DCC0

Gradients with Pale Gold

Four CSS gradients made from #E6BE8A. 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, #FAF2E8, #E6BE8A);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #E6BE8A, #403322);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #E6908A, #E6BE8A, #E0E68A);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #E6BE8A, #BFD3A5, #8AE6BE);

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Shades, tints and tones of Pale 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)

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

  1. 50
    FFF5E9
  2. 100
    FDEAD2
  3. 200
    F0D6B6
  4. 300
    E6BE8A
  5. 400
    C19C6C
  6. 500
    A47F4C
  7. 600
    886433
  8. 700
    6E4E21
  9. 800
    573C16
  10. 900
    402C0F
  11. 950
    251B0C

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #E6BE8A in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 1014 Ivory#DDC49A, very close (ΔE 2.2)Tailwind CSSorange-300 #FDBA74, very close (ΔE 3.9)CSS color namesburlywood #DEB887, very close (ΔE 2.0)

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.