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Pictured: Vegas gold
rgb(197, 179, 88)
#C5B358

Vegas Gold #C5B358 RGB Color Code

Vegas Gold (#C5B358) is a moderately saturated, light yellow. In RGB it is made of 77% red, 70% green and 35% blue (R 197, G 179, B 88). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 50°, 48% saturation and 56% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.448, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 9% magenta, 55% yellow and 23% 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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Vegas Gold color codes

#C5B358 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #C5B358 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(197, 179, 88) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(50, 48%, 56%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(50, 55%, 77%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(50 35% 23%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 9%, 55%, 23%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(76.35% 0.1138 98.31) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(76.35% -0.0165 0.1126) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(73.11% -1.78 48.1) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(73.11% 48.14 92.12) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.7606 0.7045 0.3974) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.4091 0.4482 0.1573) Valid CSS
Decimal 12956504 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.4482. Nearest web-safe color: #CCCC66.

Mix Vegas Gold with other colors

See what #C5B358 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.

PaintVegas Gold and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightVegas Gold and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintVegas Gold and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalVegas Gold blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Vegas 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--vegas-gold: #C5B358;
Sass variable$vegas-gold: #C5B358;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-vegas-gold: #C5B358; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'vegas-gold': '#C5B358' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.773, green: 0.702, blue: 0.345)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.773, green: 0.702, blue: 0.345, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="vegas_gold">#FFC5B358</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFC5B358)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #C5B358 (9.96:1, AAA). Here is how #C5B358 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
2.11:1 on white
APCA Lc 41
Fails AATry #88760C
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
9.96:1 on black
APCA Lc -61
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 Vegas Gold

#C5B358 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

#C5B358 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 Vegas Gold

A sports gold

Vegas gold takes its name from the casinos and hotels of the Las Vegas Strip. It is a soft, olive tinted gold, much duller than the CSS keyword gold. You see it most often on sports uniforms.

The Wikipedia article on gold lists it as an athletic color for Notre Dame, Boston College, Colorado, Vanderbilt and the Naval Academy, among others. The hockey team Vegas Golden Knights uses it too. The Pittsburgh Penguins wore it until they went back to Pittsburgh gold, the city's older shade.

Each team has its own

Wikipedia says the color is kept within narrow limits, but every team picks its own exact ink. The code #C5B358 comes from the color site 99colors.net, not from any team. Close relatives here are old gold and satin sheen gold. Black text on #C5B358 has a contrast of 9.96 to 1.

Vegas Gold in a user interface

A sample app screen with #C5B358 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #C5B358 as it is. On the light theme, #C5B358 is too hard to read as text (2.11:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #88760C there (4.52:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Vegas Gold

These schemes turn the hue of #C5B358 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#C5B358#586AC5

Analogous

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

Open palette
#C57D58this#C5B358#A1C558

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#C5B358#58C5B3#B358C5

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#C5B358#58A1C5#7D58C5

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#C5B358#6AC558#586AC5#B358C5

Square

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

Open palette
this#C5B358#58C57D#586AC5#C558A1

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#4C441A#897A30#C1AD4B#D6C989#EBE5C6

Gradients with Vegas Gold

Four CSS gradients made from #C5B358. 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, #F3F0DF, #C5B358);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #C5B358, #352F12);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #C57D58, #C5B358, #A1C558);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #C5B358, #98BD8A, #58C5B3);

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Shades, tints and tones of Vegas 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)

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

  1. 50
    FDF8DA
  2. 100
    F6EEC6
  3. 200
    E7DCA5
  4. 300
    C5B358
  5. 400
    B5A44E
  6. 500
    988627
  7. 600
    7D6C00
  8. 700
    635500
  9. 800
    4D4200
  10. 900
    393000
  11. 950
    221D04

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #C5B358 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 1012 Lemon yellow#DDAF27, very close (ΔE 4.3)Tailwind CSSyellow-500 #EAB308, close (ΔE 6.4)CSS color namesdarkkhaki #BDB76B, nearly the same (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 yellow or search the color library.