Vegas Gold Color Codes
Vegas Gold is a light, muted amber with the hex code #C5B358, RGB values of 197, 179, 88 and an HSL value of hsl(50, 48%, 56%).
| HEX | #C5B358 |
|---|---|
| RGB | 197, 179, 88 |
| HSL | hsl(50, 48%, 56%) |
| HSV | 50°, 55%, 77% |
| CMYK | 0%, 9%, 55%, 23% |
| LAB | 72.77, -5.12, 48.12 |
| CIELCHuv | 72.77, 61.05, 74.38° |
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Vegas Gold Color Hex Code
The Vegas Gold color hex code is #C5B358. Those six digits are three pairs, C5 for red, B3 for green and 58 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.
#C5B358
Vegas Gold Color RGB Code
The Vegas Gold RGB code is rgb(197, 179, 88). Red carries the most light at 197 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.
rgb(197, 179, 88)
Vegas Gold Color HSV Code
The Vegas Gold HSV code is 50°, 55%, 77%. Read it as a hue of 50 degrees, 55% saturation and 77% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.
50°, 55%, 77%
Vegas Gold Color CIELChuv Code
The Vegas Gold CIELCHuv code is 72.77, 61.05, 74.38°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 73 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 61 is how far it sits from grey.
72.77, 61.05, 74.38°
Tonal scale
What are Vegas Gold 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
Palettes
What are Vegas Gold Color Palette Codes?
Each of these is a hue rotation from #C5B358. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.
Complementary
Directly opposite sits #586AC5, a mid-tone, muted 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
#C57D58 and #A1C558 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
#58C5B3 and #B358C5 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: #58A1C5 and #7D58C5. 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 #586AC5, and #58C57D with #C558A1. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.
Accessibility
Contrast checker: is Vegas Gold accessible?
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
2.11:12.11
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
9.96:19.96
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 2.11:1 against white, Vegas Gold 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 9.96:1.
Color vision
How Vegas Gold 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#BDBD77
Vegas Gold shifts noticeably here. ΔE 14.0
No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.
Deuteranopia
About 1% of men#BFC07D
Vegas Gold shifts noticeably here. ΔE 15.8
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#C4898D
Vegas Gold changes substantially here. ΔE 50.9
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#B3B3B3
Vegas Gold changes substantially here. ΔE 48.4
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, Vegas Gold reads as #BFC07D. That is a shift of ΔE 15.8, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. The widest shift is under tritanopia, at ΔE 50.9. 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.
Snippets
Using Vegas Gold in code
:root {
--vegas-gold: #C5B358;
}
.example {
color: var(--vegas-gold);
}// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
extend: {
colors: {
'vegas-gold': '#C5B358',
},
},
}// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let vegasGold = Color(
red: 0.773,
green: 0.702,
blue: 0.345
)<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="vegas_gold">#C5B358</color>// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const vegasGold = Color(0xFFC5B358);