CSS named colour

Gold

#ffd700

A CSS named colour: gold is valid anywhere a colour is expected.

RGB: rgb(255 215 0)
HSL: 51°, 100%, 50%
OKLCh: 88.7% 0.182 95.3

Gold in every format

Web & CSSThe everyday formats for stylesheets and design tools.

Hex	`#ffd700`
RGB	`rgb(255 215 0)`
RGB legacy	`rgb(255, 215, 0)`
RGB percent	`rgb(100% 84.31% 0%)`
HSL	`hsl(50.6 100% 50%)`
HSL legacy	`hsl(50.6, 100%, 50%)`
HSV / HSB	`hsv(50.6, 100%, 100%)`
HWB	`hwb(50.6 0% 0%)`
Nearest name	`gold`
CMYK	`cmyk(0%, 15.7%, 100%, 0%)`Naive conversion. Real print work needs an ICC profile.

Perceptual & wide gamutModern CSS colour spaces for uniform scales and P3 displays.

OKLCh	`oklch(88.677% 0.18219 95.33)`Modern CSS colour space for even palettes — better than HSL when building scales.
OKLab	`oklab(88.677% -0.01693 0.1814)`
CIE LCh	`lch(87.468% 86.602 88.075)`
CIE Lab	`lab(87.468% 2.91 86.553)`
Display P3	`color(display-p3 0.9746 0.849 0.2855)`
Rec. 2020	`color(rec2020 0.9231 0.8333 0.2458)`
srgb-linear	`color(srgb-linear 1 0.6795 0)`Light-linear sRGB — the same numbers a shader wants for maths.
CIE XYZ (D65)	`color(xyz-d65 0.6554 0.6986 0.1003)`

ShadersGLSL, HLSL and WGSL vectors in both encoded and linear form.

GLSL vec3 — sRGB	`vec3(1.0, 0.843, 0.0)`Encoded values. Use when writing straight to the framebuffer.
GLSL vec3 — linear	`vec3(1.0, 0.68, 0.0)`Light-linear values. Use for lighting, blending and mixing.
GLSL vec4 — sRGB	`vec4(1.0, 0.843, 0.0, 1.0)`
GLSL vec4 — linear	`vec4(1.0, 0.68, 0.0, 1.0)`
GLSL ivec3	`ivec3(255, 215, 0)`
HLSL float3 — sRGB	`float3(1.0, 0.843, 0.0)`
HLSL float3 — linear	`float3(1.0, 0.68, 0.0)`
HLSL float4 — sRGB	`float4(1.0, 0.843, 0.0, 1.0)`
HLSL half4 — sRGB	`half4(1.0, 0.843, 0.0, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3f — sRGB	`vec3f(1.0, 0.843, 0.0)`
WGSL vec4f — sRGB	`vec4f(1.0, 0.843, 0.0, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3<f32> — linear	`vec3<f32>(1.0, 0.68, 0.0)`

Engines & appsConstructors for Unity, Unreal, Godot, Flutter, SwiftUI and Android.

Unity Color	`new Color(1.0f, 0.843f, 0.0f, 1.0f)`Color for everyday scripting (0–1). Color32 when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unity Color32	`new Color32(255, 215, 0, 255)`
Unreal FLinearColor	`FLinearColor(1.0f, 0.6795f, 0.0f, 1.0f)`FLinearColor for materials and lighting. FColor when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unreal FColor	`FColor(255, 215, 0, 255)`Whole numbers from 0 to 255 — use when an API asks for FColor, not FLinearColor.
Godot Color	`Color(1, 0.843, 0, 1)`
Flutter Color	`Color(0xFFFFD700)`Packed ARGB, so alpha comes first.
Android Color	`Color.rgb(255, 215, 0)`
SwiftUI Color	`Color(red: 1, green: 0.843, blue: 0)`
UIKit UIColor	`UIColor(red: 1, green: 0.843, blue: 0, alpha: 1)`

Raw valuesPacked integers and plain arrays.

0x hex	`0xFFD700`
0x hex (ARGB)	`0xFFFFD700`
Array 0–1	`[1, 0.843, 0]`
Array 0–255	`[255, 215, 0]`
Decimal integer	`16766720`

Contrast and accessibility

WCAG 2 ratios are what audits and legislation reference. APCA is shown alongside because WCAG 2 is known to misjudge mid-tone backgrounds, and it is the basis of the WCAG 3 draft.

Pairing	WCAG 2 ratio	Level	APCA	Suitable for
Gold on white	1.40:1	Fail	Lc 19	Not usable for text
Gold on black	14.97:1	AAA	Lc 84	Body text, 18px and up

Gold text on a white background

Gold text on a black background

White text on Gold

Black text on Gold

Tonal scale

Hue held fixed while lightness walks OKLCh, ready to use as a design system ramp.

50#fff8a3
100#ffed76
200#fbdb56
300#e7c31e
400#caa600
500#a88900
600#8a6f00
700#6f5900
800#594600
900#463600
950#291e00

Tints and shades

Mixed perceptually toward white and black, so the steps feel evenly spaced.

Tint 1#ffdf5b
Tint 2#ffe684
Tint 3#ffeda6
Tint 4#fff3c5
Tint 5#fff9e2
Shade 1#c8a800
Shade 2#947c00
Shade 3#635200
Shade 4#362c00
Shade 5#0f0a00

Colours that work with Gold

Complementary, triadic and analogous partners, rotated in OKLCh so they keep the same apparent brightness.

#cbd6ff
#68eeff
#ffbbf9
#ffcb8a
#beee59

Closest CSS names

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