Goldenrod

#daaa55

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

Goldenrod sits in the orange range, mid and strong. A mid orange this warm suits food, sport and friendly brands. It sits well next to deep blues for contrast, or soft tans for a grounded palette.

Goldenrod color values

Every conversion for #daaa55, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#daaa55

RGB218, 170, 85

HSL38, 64%, 59%

HSV38, 61%, 85%

CMYK0%, 22%, 61%, 15%

Lab72.44, 8.3, 49.69

XYZ44.93, 44.31, 14.78

Decimal14330453

Web safe#cc9966

Pantone143 C

Shades of goldenrod

#d59f3f #cc922c #b68228 #9f7223 #89621e #735219 #5c4214 #46320f #30220a #191205

Tints of goldenrod

#ddb265 #e1ba74 #e4c184 #e8c993 #ebd1a3 #eed9b2 #f2e0c2 #f5e8d1 #f8f0e1 #fcf8f0

Colors that go with goldenrod

Complementary#5585da Analogous#da6855 Analogous#c8da55 Triadic#55daaa Triadic#aa55da Split complementary#55c8da Split complementary#6755da

Goldenrod 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, 22, 61, 15.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #daaa55 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 22 61 15

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 24 60 21

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.

Goldenrod in css

Copy #daaa55 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #daaa55; }
.text { color: #daaa55; }
.border { border: 2px solid #daaa55; }

How goldenrod looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Goldenrod and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #daaa55 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #daaa55 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Goldenrod on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #daaa55 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn goldenrod into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #daaa55 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 goldenrod, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #daaa55 are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.