Yellow

#a3a284

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for yellow, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Yellow falls in the yellow band, mid and muted. A yellow this strong grabs attention fast, good for warnings and energy brands. Pair it with dark neutrals so it stays legible, or with violet for a high energy scheme.

Yellow color values

Every conversion for #a3a284, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a3a284

RGB163, 162, 132

HSL58, 14%, 58%

HSV58, 19%, 64%

CMYK0%, 1%, 19%, 36%

Lab65.98, -4.83, 15.77

XYZ32.19, 35.29, 26.95

Decimal10723972

Web safe#999999

Pantone5773 C

Shades of yellow

#989775 #8b8968 #7b7a5c #6c6b51 #5d5c46 #4e4d3a #3f3e2f #302f24 #212018 #12110d

Tints of yellow

#abab8f #b4b39b #bcbca6 #c5c4b1 #cdcdbc #d6d5c8 #deded3 #e6e6de #efefea #f7f7f5

Colors that go with yellow

Complementary#8485a3 Analogous#a39384 Analogous#94a384 Triadic#84a3a2 Triadic#a284a3 Split complementary#8495a3 Split complementary#9284a3

Yellow in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 0, 1, 19, 36.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a3a284 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 1 19 36

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 5 21 42

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Yellow in css

Copy #a3a284 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a3a284; }
.text { color: #a3a284; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a3a284; }

How yellow looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Yellow and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #a3a284 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a3a284 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Yellow on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #a3a284 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around yellow? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn yellow into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #a3a284 and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from yellow, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #a3a284 is computed, not guessed. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.