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#F4E216

Xanthic #F4E216 RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Xanthic (#F4E216) is a vivid, very light yellow. In RGB it is made of 96% red, 89% green and 9% blue (R 244, G 226, B 22). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 55°, 91% saturation and 52% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.737, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 7% magenta, 91% yellow and 4% 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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Xanthic color codes

#F4E216 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #F4E216 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(244, 226, 22) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(55, 91%, 52%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(55, 91%, 96%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(55 9% 4%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 7%, 91%, 4%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(89.92% 0.1866 103.55) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(89.92% -0.0437 0.1814) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(89.25% -6.77 85.15) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(89.25% 85.42 94.54) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.9448 0.8887 0.3091) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.6465 0.7368 0.1158) Valid CSS
Decimal 16048662 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.7368. Nearest web-safe color: #FFCC00.

Mix Xanthic with other colors

See what #F4E216 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.

PaintXanthic and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightXanthic and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintXanthic and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalXanthic blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Xanthic 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--xanthic: #F4E216;
Sass variable$xanthic: #F4E216;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-xanthic: #F4E216; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'xanthic': '#F4E216' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.957, green: 0.886, blue: 0.086)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.957, green: 0.886, blue: 0.086, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="xanthic">#FFF4E216</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFF4E216)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #F4E216 (15.74:1, AAA). Here is how #F4E216 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.33:1 on white
APCA Lc 16
Fails AATry #837800
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
15.74:1 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 Xanthic

#F4E216 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

#F4E216 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 Xanthic

An old word for yellowish

Xanthic is an English adjective that means yellowish. It is built from the Greek xanthos, which means yellow. The word shows up mostly in chemistry, as in xanthic acid, rather than in paint or fashion. As a color name it is rare.

The shades of yellow article lists Xanthic as #EEED09, citing The Official Register of Color Names. The site's #F4E216 comes from an open name list instead, so the codes do not match. Ours is a bit warmer and has less green in it. It sits near lemon and canary yellow. Black text on it is very easy to read, at 15.74 to 1.

Xanthic in a user interface

A sample app screen with #F4E216 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #F4E216 as it is. On the light theme, #F4E216 is too hard to read as text (1.33:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #837800 there (4.51:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Xanthic

These schemes turn the hue of #F4E216 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#F4E216#1628F4

Analogous

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

Open palette
#F47316this#F4E216#97F416

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#F4E216#16F4E2#E216F4

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#F4E216#1697F4#7316F4

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#F4E216#28F416#1628F4#E216F4

Square

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

Open palette
this#F4E216#16F473#1628F4#F41697

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#615A05#B1A308#F4E218#F8EC67#FCF6B6

Gradients with Xanthic

Four CSS gradients made from #F4E216. 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, #FCFADE, #F4E216);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4E216, #443E02);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #F47316, #F4E216, #97F416);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #F4E216, #ADEE9B, #16F4E2);

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Shades, tints and tones of Xanthic

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)

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

  1. 50
    FEFAC7
  2. 100
    F6F0AD
  3. 200
    F4E216
  4. 300
    D2C539
  5. 400
    B4A600
  6. 500
    948900
  7. 600
    776E00
  8. 700
    5F5700
  9. 800
    4A4400
  10. 900
    363100
  11. 950
    211E00

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #F4E216 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 1016 Sulfur yellow#F1DD38, nearly the same (ΔE 2.0)Tailwind CSSyellow-300 #FDE047, very close (ΔE 2.7)CSS color namesgold #FFD700, very close (ΔE 3.0)

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.