Dark Yellow Color Codes

Dark Yellow is a light, saturated orange with the hex code #E7BF8E, RGB values of 231, 191, 142 and an HSL value of hsl(33, 65%, 73%).

HEX	#E7BF8E
RGB	231, 191, 142
HSL	hsl(33, 65%, 73%)
HSV	33°, 39%, 91%
CMYK	0%, 17%, 39%, 9%
LAB	79.73, 7.70, 30.09
CIELCHuv	79.73, 48.58, 53.24°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 156 C ΔE 5.6 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: burlywood ΔE 2.8

Community source color-name-list, community color-name index

Dark Yellow Color Hex Code

The Dark Yellow color hex code is #E7BF8E. Those six digits are three pairs, E7 for red, BF for green and 8E for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#E7BF8E

Dark Yellow Color RGB Code

The Dark Yellow RGB code is rgb(231, 191, 142). Red carries the most light at 231 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(231, 191, 142)

Dark Yellow Color HSV Code

The Dark Yellow HSV code is 33°, 39%, 91%. Read it as a hue of 33 degrees, 39% saturation and 91% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

33°, 39%, 91%

Dark Yellow Color CIELChuv Code

The Dark Yellow CIELCHuv code is 79.73, 48.58, 53.24°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 80 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 49 is how far it sits from grey.

79.73, 48.58, 53.24°

Tonal scale

What are Dark Yellow Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

Open in the shades & tints generator →

Palettes

What are Dark Yellow Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #E7BF8E. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Directly opposite sits #8EB6E7, a light, saturated azure blue. No other pairing separates two hues further, so this is the one to reach for when a single element has to win attention. Neither is especially saturated, so this pairing stays calm enough for large areas of both.

Analogous

#E7938E and #E3E78E sit 30 degrees either side. All three share most of their hue, so the set reads as one family instead of three separate decisions. Good for backgrounds and for state variations that should not announce themselves.

Triadic

#8EE7BF and #BF8EE7 complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #8EE3E7 and #938EE7. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #8EB6E7, and #8EE793 with #E78EE3. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat the darkest of the four as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

1.72:1

1.72

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Fails	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Fails	Fails
UI component needs 3:1	Fails	n/a

Black background

12.24:1

12.24

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Passes
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

At 1.72:1 against white, Dark Yellow is a fill color rather than a text color. Use it for surfaces, borders and large display type, and set the copy in ink. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 12.24:1.

Check Dark Yellow against another color →

Color vision

How Dark Yellow looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men

actual

#D7D79C

Dark Yellow shifts noticeably here. ΔE 17.7

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#D9DC9F

Dark Yellow shifts noticeably here. ΔE 19.4

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000

actual

#E5A6A8

Dark Yellow changes substantially here. ΔE 27.6

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000

actual

#C6C6C6

Dark Yellow changes substantially here. ΔE 31.1

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

To a deuteranope, the most common form, Dark Yellow reads as #D9DC9F. That is a shift of ΔE 19.4, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. It sits in the red end of the spectrum, which is exactly where red-green deficiency does its damage. Never pair it with a green of similar lightness to signal a difference in meaning: to a large minority the two become one color. The widest shift is under tritanopia, at ΔE 27.6. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

Simulate a whole palette →

Snippets

Using Dark Yellow in code

:root {
  --dark-yellow: #E7BF8E;
}

.example {
  color: var(--dark-yellow);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'dark-yellow': '#E7BF8E',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let darkYellow = Color(
    red: 0.906,
    green: 0.749,
    blue: 0.557
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="dark_yellow">#E7BF8E</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const darkYellow = Color(0xFFE7BF8E);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Dark Yellow Color?

Dark Yellow reads as caution and attention. It is saturated enough to notice and restrained enough to repeat, and at 65% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 80 it behaves as a warm color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Dark Yellow Color?

The closest CSS keyword is BurlyWood (#DEB887), though it is not a match: Delta-E 2.8 means the difference is visible side by side. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 156 C at #F2C68C. The name Dark Yellow comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Dark Yellow Color Made?

On a screen Dark Yellow is made by additive light: 231 red, 191 green and 142 blue out of 255, with red leading and 142 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 0%, 17%, 39%, 9%. Starting from the pure hue at 33 degrees, Dark Yellow is a tint, so it is that hue with white added.