Mustard yellow
#E1AD01
Mustard yellow (#E1AD01) is a medium, vivid yellow colour, warm. In RGB it is 225 red, 173 green and 1 blue; in HSL its hue is 46°, its saturation 99% and its lightness 44%. For print, its CMYK mix is 0% cyan, 23% magenta, 100% yellow and 12% black, though printed colours vary with paper and ink.
Yellow is the brightest colour to the eye: cheerful, optimistic and hard to miss. On its own it can be hard to read, so pair it with a dark colour for text.
Text on mustard yellow
White text on mustard yellow has a contrast ratio of 2.06:1 and fails; black text has 10.18:1 and passes AAA. Black text is the better choice on it. Check other pairs in the contrast checker.
White text · 2.06:1
Black text · 10.18:1
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Use mustard yellow in CSS
.button {
background-color: #E1AD01;
color: #000000;
}Make a full Tailwind scale from it with the Tailwind shades generator, or see more shades of yellow.