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Lemon Yellow Color Codes - The Hex, RGB, HSL and CMYK Values

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By: Contributing Artist

What colors make Lemon Yellow?

On this page, you will find the Lemon Yellow Hex, RGB, Hue Saturation Light (HSL), and CMYK color codes. We also include shades and variations of Lemon Yellow, color palettes, and related colors.

Lemon Yellow color code

The Lemon Yellow hex code is #FAFA33. The Lemon Yellow hex code can be quantified in RGB values which represent the amount of Red, Green and Blue color channels. The RGB value is an estimated amount of red, green, and blue color to create the color Lemon Yellow. The RGB estimate is:


  • Red: #FA in Hex amounts to 98%
  • Green: #FA in Hex amounts to 98%
  • Blue: #33 in Hex amounts to 20%

Lemon Yellow in HSL

HSL is an acronym which stands for Hue, Saturation, and Lightness. HSL was developed for television and standardized for computer displays.

Hue is the perceived color name. Saturation is the "colorfulness" relative to the color's brightness. Brightness is our human eye's quantifed perception of the spectral light distribution. Lightness is the color brightness relative to a perceived similarly illuminated white.

Brightness and "colorfulness" are absolute measures, while Lightness and and Saturation are relative measures.

Lemon Yellow is 60deg, 95%, 59% HSL.


  • Hue: 60deg
  • Saturation: 95%
  • Light: 59%

Lemon Yellow color in CMYK color model

The CMYK color model is commonly used in printing. The CMYK acronym stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key. Where key is black. Since the black color is the absence of light, the CMYK is a subtractive color model. White light minus red is cyan, minus green is magenta, minus blue is yellow.

Lemon Yellow is 0% 0% 80% 2% CMYK.


  • Cyan: 0%
  • Magenta: 0%
  • Yellow: 80%
  • Key (or Black): 2%

Different shades of Lemon Yellow

According to its HSL value, Lemon Yellow contains about 59% of brightness.

Below are the all the values in HEX, HSL and CMYK color spaces for each shade variations:

  • Hex HSL CMYK
  • #FDFDCD 60deg, 95%, 90% 0%, 0%, 19%, 99%
  • #FCFC9B 60deg, 95%, 80% 0%, 0%, 38%, 99%
  • #FBFB69 60deg, 95%, 70% 0%, 0%, 57%, 99%
  • #FAFA37 60deg, 95%, 60% 0%, 0%, 77%, 99%
  • #F8F806 60deg, 95%, 50% 0%, 0%, 97%, 99%
  • #C7C704 60deg, 95%, 40% 0%, 0%, 97%, 99%
  • #959503 60deg, 95%, 30% 0%, 0%, 97%, 99%
  • #636302 60deg, 95%, 20% 0%, 0%, 97%, 99%
  • #313101 60deg, 95%, 10% 0%, 0%, 97%, 99%

Accessibility tips when using the color Lemon Yellow

Ensure your content remains available to the broadest possible audience. Make sure the text color has enough contrast with its background. When using Lemon Yellow on text, we recommend you use black for the background.

The reason Lemon Yellow contrasts better with a black background is because Lemon Yellow has a degree of brightness of 59% which provides better contrast on a dark background.

The Lemon Yellow color palette hex codes.

There are a few color palettes available when working with Lemon Yellow, but below is our favorite:

  • Pelati
    #FF3333
  • Vermillion Orange
    #F75D32
  • Peach Fury
    #F88435
  • Nyc Taxi
    #F7B731
  • Traffic Yellow
    #FEDC39
  • Maximum Yellow
    #FAFA37

By interpolating Hue and Saturation values, we can also generate great color palettes inspired from Lemon Yellow

  • Dr. White
    #FAFAFA
  • Bloodthirsty Beige
    #F8D7D0
  • Melon
    #FEBAAD
  • Jasmine
    #F8DE7E
  • Naples Yellow
    #FADA5E
  • Arctic Lime
    #D0FF14

Below is a series of palettes generated from the color Lemon Yellow:

Palette variances of 3 colors:

  • #33FAD2
  • #46FA33
  • #F9FA33
  • #DF33FA
  • #33FAEC
  • #F9FA33
  • #F9FA33
  • #FA33F9
  • #33F9FA

Palette variances of 4 colors:

  • #33CBFA
  • #33FA4A
  • #F9FA33
  • #FA334A
  • #33FA8F
  • #68FA33
  • #F9FA33
  • #FA6833
  • #89FA33
  • #F9FA33
  • #FA8933
  • #FA334D

Palette variances of 5 colors:

  • #33FAEC
  • #33FA8C
  • #39FA33
  • #99FA33
  • #F9FA33
  • #33FA39
  • #93FA33
  • #F9FA33
  • #FA9333
  • #FA3339
  • #33FA96
  • #64FA33
  • #F9FA33
  • #FA6433
  • #FA3396

Palette variances of 6 colors:

  • #33FAAA
  • #33FA5A
  • #5AFA33
  • #AAFA33
  • #F9FA33
  • #FAAA33
  • #F9FA33
  • #FA7233
  • #FA337B
  • #F033FA
  • #6833FA
  • #3385FA
  • #46FA33
  • #A0FA33
  • #F9FA33
  • #FAA033
  • #FA4633
  • #FA3378

You will find specific color values of Lemon Yellow on this page. For example, the Lemon Yellow HEX color code is #FAFA33. We offer a variety of color palette, variances, and an expert color mixer to develop color schemes. Related colors for Lemon Yellow are:

  • Maximum Yellow color code is (250.0, 250.0, 55.0).
  • Banana Bombshell color code is (247.0, 232.0, 46.0).
  • Yellow (Ryb), Giraffe color code is (254.0, 254.0, 51.0).
  • Pac-Man color code is (255.0, 231.0, 55.0).
  • Fluffy Duckling color code is (252.0, 223.0, 57.0).
  • Big Yellow Taxi color code is (255.0, 255.0, 51.0).
  • Traffic Yellow color code is (254.0, 220.0, 57.0).
  • Pickled Pineapple color code is (238.0, 255.0, 51.0).
  • Banana Yellow color code is (255.0, 225.0, 53.0).
  • Angel'S Trumpet color code is (246.0, 221.0, 52.0).

These values can help you match the specific shade and find complementary colors. Looking for a different shade of yellow? Our color mixer expertly generates nine different shades and eighteen color variances.

At ourpastimes.com, we are a creative team of product designers, engineers, and data scientists who want to make the internet a better place. We have poured over color theory, the math is tougher than you think, and built a showcase for color combinations.

We started by building a great virtual color mixer. We hope everyone has seen a color wheel. Personally, I loved the color wheel in my art classroom growing up. The acrylic paints like Titanium White, Burnt sienna, Dioxazine Purple make combining colors visceral and our color mixer virtually offers that visceral feeling of color mixing paints. Use our color mixer to build your next color scheme!

The color wheel pickers showcase 12 main colors. The three primary colors are red, green, and blue. When combined together, the primary colors create pure white light. Secondary colors result from mixing two primary colors:

  • Red and Green make Yellow.
  • Green and Blue make Cyan.
  • Blue and Red make Magenta .

Combining a secondary color and a primary color yields tertiary colors. There are six tertiary colors. The six color names are orange, chartreuse green, spring green, azure, violet and rose. Colors continue to expand, for example, halfway between blue and violet is indigo, color code #4B0082, and violet is halfway between blue and purple.

So, the color wheel includes twelve main colors: red, orange, yellow, chartreuse green, green, spring green, cyan, azure, blue, violet, magenta, and rose.

But how do you mix paint color? To mix acrylic paint to make gold you mix in a small quantity of brown paint (approximately one part brown to 10 parts yellow). Our color mixer is expert at mixing color by parts. Adjust the color levels with an easy toggle and we handle the math to generate the resulting hex code, RGB and HSL.

Included in our color pages are color palettes, we generate color combinations between three and six colors. We call each different color mixture “palette variances.” Each color palette variance includes eighteen color mixes with HEX code displayed.

A third component we provide on this page is color shades. For example, shades of Lemon Yellow include Maximum Yellow, Banana Bombshell, Yellow (Ryb), Giraffe, Pac-Man, Fluffy Duckling, Big Yellow Taxi, Traffic Yellow, Pickled Pineapple, Banana Yellow, and Angel'S Trumpet. We offer nine tints and shades for each color. A color shade is found by adjusting the color saturation to find a darker hue. A color tint is a lighter color. For example, pink is a tint of red.

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