Photo in the color Pastel yellow
Pictured: Pastel yellow, the closest color we have a photo of (#FDFD96)
rgb(252, 252, 157)
#FCFC9D

Walking on Sunshine #FCFC9D RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Walking on Sunshine (#FCFC9D) is a moderately saturated, very light yellow. In RGB it is made of 99% red, 99% green and 62% blue (R 252, G 252, B 157). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 60°, 94% saturation and 80% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.928, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 0% magenta, 38% 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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Walking on Sunshine color codes

#FCFC9D in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #FCFC9D Valid CSS
RGB rgb(252, 252, 157) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(60, 94%, 80%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(60, 38%, 99%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(60 62% 1%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 0%, 38%, 1%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(97.05% 0.117 108.4) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(97.05% -0.0369 0.111) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(97.43% -9.93 45.45) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(97.43% 46.53 102.33) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.9882 0.9882 0.6607) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.8104 0.9275 0.4553) Valid CSS
Decimal 16579741 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.9275. Nearest web-safe color: #FFFF99.

Mix Walking on Sunshine with other colors

See what #FCFC9D 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 Walking on Sunshine 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--walking-on-sunshine: #FCFC9D;
Sass variable$walking-on-sunshine: #FCFC9D;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-walking-on-sunshine: #FCFC9D; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'walking-on-sunshine': '#FCFC9D' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.988, green: 0.988, blue: 0.616)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.988, green: 0.988, blue: 0.616, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="walking_on_sunshine">#FFFCFC9D</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFFCFC9D)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #FCFC9D (19.55:1, AAA). Here is how #FCFC9D does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.07:1 on white
APCA Lc 0
Fails AATry #7C7A10
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
19.55:1 on black
APCA Lc -103
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 Walking on Sunshine

#FCFC9D 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

#FCFC9D 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.

Walking on Sunshine in a user interface

A sample app screen with #FCFC9D as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #FCFC9D as it is. On the light theme, #FCFC9D is too hard to read as text (1.07:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #7C7A10 there (4.52:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Walking on Sunshine

These schemes turn the hue of #FCFC9D 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 Walking on Sunshine

Four CSS gradients made from #FCFC9D. 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, #FEFFED, #FCFC9D);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FCFC9D, #474728);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FCCD9D, #FCFC9D, #CDFC9D);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #FCFC9D, #D0FDD0, #9DFCFC);

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Shades, tints and tones of Walking on Sunshine

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)

Walking on Sunshine sits at step 50. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FCFC9D
  2. 100
    EFF0C7
  3. 200
    DFDFA7
  4. 300
    C6C67C
  5. 400
    A9A850
  6. 500
    8D8B2A
  7. 600
    727000
  8. 700
    5B5900
  9. 800
    474500
  10. 900
    343200
  11. 950
    1F1E04

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #FCFC9D 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.