Gold

#f5ca5e

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

Gold is a mid orange with confident warmth. 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.

Gold color values

Every conversion for #f5ca5e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#f5ca5e

RGB245, 202, 94

HSL43, 88%, 66%

HSV43, 62%, 96%

CMYK0%, 18%, 62%, 4%

Lab83.16, 3.4, 58.34

XYZ60.8, 62.46, 19.44

Decimal16108126

Web safe#ffcc66

Pantone141 C

Shades of gold

#f3c041 #f1b724 #e8aa0e #cb950d #ae800b #916a09 #745507 #574005 #3a2a04 #1d1502

Tints of gold

#f6cf6c #f7d37b #f8d889 #f9dd98 #f9e2a6 #fae6b5 #fbebc3 #fcf0d1 #fdf5e0 #fef9ee

Colors that go with gold

Complementary#5e89f5 Analogous#f57e5e Analogous#d4f55e Triadic#5ef5ca Triadic#ca5ef5 Split complementary#5ed4f5 Split complementary#7f5ef5

Gold in print

It is saturated enough that the cmyk build can shift slightly from screen to press, so proof it. The cmyk build is 0, 18, 62, 4.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #f5ca5e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 18 62 4

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 21 61 10

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

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

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

Gold in css

Copy #f5ca5e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #f5ca5e; }
.text { color: #f5ca5e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #f5ca5e; }

How gold looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Gold and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #f5ca5e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #f5ca5e against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Gold on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #f5ca5e sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn gold into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #f5ca5e 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 gold, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #f5ca5e are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.