Gold color (#FFD700)
Gold is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword gold
anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #FFD700, which is rgb(255, 215, 0) in RGB.
It is a light, vivid warm color with a hue angle of 51° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 89% in OKLCH. On a gold background, black text gives the higher contrast at 14.97:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.
Gold color codes
| CSS name | gold |
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|---|---|---|
| HEX | #FFD700 |
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| HEX (8-digit) | #FFD700FF |
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| RGB | rgb(255, 215, 0) |
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| HSL | hsl(51, 100%, 50%) |
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| HSV / HSB | hsv(51, 100%, 100%) |
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| OKLCH | oklch(88.7% 0.1822 95.3) |
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| CMYK | cmyk(0%, 15.7%, 100%, 0%) |
Contrast with white and black
WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for gold used as text and as a background.
Tints and shades of gold
Tints mix gold with white; shades mix it with black, in 10% steps. Click a swatch to copy it, or build custom scales in the tint & shade generator.
Tints
Shades
Colors that go with gold
Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.
Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split-Complementary
Gold with color blindness
Approximately how gold appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.
Using gold in CSS
.element {
color: gold;
background-color: #ffd700;
border-color: rgb(255 215 0 / 50%);
outline-color: oklch(88.7% 0.1822 95.3);
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