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Pictured: Old gold, the closest color we have a photo of (#CFB53B)
rgb(193, 178, 62)
#C1B23E

Pesto #C1B23E RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Pesto (#C1B23E) is a moderately saturated, light yellow. In RGB it is made of 76% red, 70% green and 24% blue (R 193, G 178, B 62). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 53°, 51% saturation and 50% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.435, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 8% magenta, 68% yellow and 24% 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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Pesto color codes

#C1B23E in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #C1B23E Valid CSS
RGB rgb(193, 178, 62) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(53, 51%, 50%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(53, 68%, 76%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(53 24% 24%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 8%, 68%, 24%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(75.51% 0.1345 101.86) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(75.51% -0.0276 0.1316) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(72.28% -4.25 58.43) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(72.28% 58.58 94.16) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.7469 0.7001 0.3231) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.3878 0.4353 0.1092) Valid CSS
Decimal 12694078 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.4353. Nearest web-safe color: #CC9933.

Mix Pesto with other colors

See what #C1B23E 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.

PaintPesto and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightPesto and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintPesto and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalPesto blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Pesto in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

WhereCodeCopy
CSS variable--pesto: #C1B23E;
Sass variable$pesto: #C1B23E;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-pesto: #C1B23E; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'pesto': '#C1B23E' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.757, green: 0.698, blue: 0.243)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.757, green: 0.698, blue: 0.243, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="pesto">#FFC1B23E</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFC1B23E)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #C1B23E (9.71:1, AAA). Here is how #C1B23E does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
2.16:1 on white
APCA Lc 42
Fails AATry #857800
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
9.71:1 on black
APCA Lc -60
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 Pesto

#C1B23E 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

#C1B23E 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 Pesto

Named after a sauce

Pesto is a green sauce from Genoa, a city in northwest Italy. It is made with basil leaves, olive oil, cheese, pine nuts and garlic. The color on this page, #C1B23E, is a dull mustard green that comes from an open online list of color names. That list gives no source for the code.

A pearly crayon

Crayola also has a Pesto crayon. It came in a 24 count box of Pearl Crayons released in 2019, according to the Wikipedia list of Crayola colors. That list shows it as #5F7B4A, a darker leaf green much closer to real basil. So the Crayola code and the code here are not the same.

Similar shades on this site include citron and green olive.

Pesto in a user interface

A sample app screen with #C1B23E as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #C1B23E as it is. On the light theme, #C1B23E is too hard to read as text (2.16:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #857800 there (4.48:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Pesto

These schemes turn the hue of #C1B23E 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#C1B23E#3E4DC1

Analogous

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

Open palette
#C1713Ethis#C1B23E#8FC13E

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#C1B23E#3EC1B2#B23EC1

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#C1B23E#3E8FC1#713EC1

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#C1B23E#4DC13E#3E4DC1#B23EC1

Square

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

Open palette
this#C1B23E#3EC171#3E4DC1#C13E8F

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#4D4719#8C812D#C4B648#D8CF86#ECE8C5

Gradients with Pesto

Four CSS gradients made from #C1B23E. 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, #F2F0DC, #C1B23E);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #C1B23E, #342F0A);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #C1713E, #C1B23E, #8FC13E);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #C1B23E, #8EBB82, #3EC1B2);

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Shades, tints and tones of Pesto

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)

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

  1. 50
    FDF9D5
  2. 100
    F5EFC0
  3. 200
    E6DD9C
  4. 300
    CFC46C
  5. 400
    C1B23E
  6. 500
    968800
  7. 600
    796D00
  8. 700
    605600
  9. 800
    4B4300
  10. 900
    373100
  11. 950
    221D00

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #C1B23E in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 1012 Lemon yellow#DDAF27, very close (ΔE 4.2)Tailwind CSSyellow-500 #EAB308, close (ΔE 6.3)CSS color namesdarkkhaki #BDB76B, very close (ΔE 3.9)

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.