HEX Color #D3B600 (Goldenrod)

About #D3B600

At its core, #D3B600 is a medium and vivid hue. It is closely associated with the named CSS color Goldenrod. To achieve this exact tint on a monitor, you would use an RGB mix of 211, 182, and 0.

While screens use RGB, printing presses rely on Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black). To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 0% cyan and 14% magenta inks. This makes it a relatively light color when applied to physical surfaces.

Ensuring your text is legible against this background is a key part of web design. The calculated luminance score dictates that #000000 typography is the safest choice. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#D3B600

RGB211, 182, 0

HSL51.8°, 100.0%, 41.4%

CMYK0%, 14%, 100%, 17%

HSV51.8°, 100.0%, 82.7%

LAB74.4, -4.0, 76.4

XYZ43.6, 47.3, 6.8

Decimal13874688

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#D3B600 #001CD3

Analogous

#D34C00 #86D300

Triadic

#00D3B6 #B500D3

Tetradic

#00D34C #001CD3 #D30086

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#D3B600

#D7BE1C

#DCC638

#E1CE55

#E6D671

#EBDE8D

#F0E6AA

#F5EEC6

#FAF6E2

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#D3B600

#BBA100

#A48D00

#8C7900

#756500

#5D5000

#463C00

#2E2800

#171400

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

2.01:1

Text on #FFFFFF

FAIL

10.46:1

Text on #000000

AAA

1.92:1

Text on #F8FAFC

FAIL

8.89:1

Text on #0F172A

AAA

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #D3B600; }

.text-color { color: #D3B600; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #D3B600; }

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