Photo in the color Light khaki
Pictured: Light khaki, the closest color we have a photo of (#F0E68D)
rgb(238, 223, 145)
#EEDF91

Party Sponge Cake #EEDF91 RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Party Sponge Cake (#EEDF91) is a moderately saturated, very light yellow. In RGB it is made of 93% red, 87% green and 57% blue (R 238, G 223, B 145). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 50°, 73% saturation and 75% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.730, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 6% magenta, 39% yellow and 7% 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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Party Sponge Cake color codes

#EEDF91 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #EEDF91 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(238, 223, 145) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(50, 73%, 75%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(50, 39%, 93%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(50 57% 7%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 6%, 39%, 7%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(89.84% 0.0993 98.66) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(89.84% -0.015 0.0982) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(88.75% -2.68 40.16) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(88.75% 40.25 93.81) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.9232 0.8765 0.6062) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.6676 0.73 0.3736) Valid CSS
Decimal 15654801 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.7300. Nearest web-safe color: #FFCC99.

Mix Party Sponge Cake with other colors

See what #EEDF91 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.

Use Party Sponge Cake 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--party-sponge-cake: #EEDF91;
Sass variable$party-sponge-cake: #EEDF91;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-party-sponge-cake: #EEDF91; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'party-sponge-cake': '#EEDF91' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.933, green: 0.875, blue: 0.569)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.933, green: 0.875, blue: 0.569, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="party_sponge_cake">#FFEEDF91</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFEEDF91)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #EEDF91 (15.60:1, AAA). Here is how #EEDF91 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.35:1 on white
APCA Lc 17
Fails AATry #857728
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
15.60:1 on black
APCA Lc -87
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 Party Sponge Cake

#EEDF91 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

#EEDF91 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.

Party Sponge Cake in a user interface

A sample app screen with #EEDF91 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #EEDF91 as it is. On the light theme, #EEDF91 is too hard to read as text (1.35:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #857728 there (4.50:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Party Sponge Cake

These schemes turn the hue of #EEDF91 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

Analogous

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

Open palette

Triadic

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

Open palette

Split complementary

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

Open palette

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette

Square

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

Open palette

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette

Gradients with Party Sponge Cake

Four CSS gradients made from #EEDF91. 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, #FBF9EA, #EEDF91);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #EEDF91, #423D25);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #EEB191, #EEDF91, #CFEE91);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #EEDF91, #C5E8BA, #91EEDF);

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Shades, tints and tones of Party Sponge Cake

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)

Party Sponge Cake sits at step 200. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FCF8DD
  2. 100
    F4EECB
  3. 200
    EEDF91
  4. 300
    CEC285
  5. 400
    B2A45C
  6. 500
    95873A
  7. 600
    7A6C1D
  8. 700
    625506
  9. 800
    4D4200
  10. 900
    383002
  11. 950
    211D07

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #EEDF91 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

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.