#e6e6a1It is a bright pastel yellow color having an approximate luminance of 90%. It has a hue value of 60° indicating that this is a warm color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Green-yellow (Crayola), Khaki (X11) (Light Khaki), Vanilla, Medium Champagne, Pale Spring Bud, Spring Green (Crayola), Blond, Key Lime, Flax and Lemon Yellow (Crayola). A bit below you will find the most similar RAL, Pantone and Sherwin-Williams colors too.
The following list contains the conversion results of color #e6e6a1 to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (230, 230, 161)
#e6e6a1
hsl (60, 58%, 76.7%)
hsv (60, 30%, 90.2%)
lab (89.9, -10.5, 33.7)
xyz (67.4, 76, 44.8)
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The following table contains the nearest matching standard colors.
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Tints, shades and tones are generated from the base color by adding white, black and gray paint to #e6e6a1 respectively. The process results a harmonic color scale.
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Tints
These are the color variants which are generated by adding white color to the base color. This process results a scale from a bright pastel yellow color to white. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.
This color scale contains similar colors to Pale Spring Bud, Spring Green (Crayola), Blond, Lemon Chiffon, Light Goldenrod Yellow, Beige, Light Yellow, Cornsilk, Eggshell, Ivory, Floral White, Baby Powder and Cosmic Latte.
Shades
These are the color variants which are generated by adding black color to the base color. This process results a scale from a bright pastel yellow color to black. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.
This color scale contains similar colors to Misty Moss, Sage, Ecru, Sand, Gold Fusion, Spanish Bistre, Shadow, Dark Olive Green, Rifle Green, Kombu Green, Ebony, Black Olive, Black Chocolate, Eerie Black, Pine Tree and Dark Jungle Green.
Tones
These are the color variants which are generated by adding gray color to the base color. This process results a scale from a bright pastel yellow color to gray. The warmness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.
This color scale contains similar colors to Spring Green (Crayola), Pale Spring Bud, Blond, Vanilla, Lemon Meringue, Light Goldenrod Yellow, Eggshell, Parchment, Beige, Cornsilk, Alabaster, Timberwolf, Platinum and Bone.
Color schemes represent a set of colors creating a harmonic and aesthetic feeling. Color schemes are generated by choosing colors around the color wheel.
We can talk about monochromatic, complementary, triadic and tetradic color schemes, choosing one, two, three or four colors around the color wheel respectively.
In the following tables these color schemes are present.
Monochromatic
The monochromatic scale is generated by choosing colors on the color wheel near to the base color. As the colors of the monochromatic scale are close to each other, they create a harmonic feeling.
This color scale contains warm and cold colors. There are variants of orange, yellow and green colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Pullman Brown (UPS Brown), Dark Brown, Light French Beige, Lion, Army Green, Dark Moss Green, Misty Moss, Dark Khaki, UP Forest Green, Forest Green (Traditional), Dark Sea Green and Asparagus.
Complementary
The complementary scale is generated by choosing the color on the opposite side on the color wheel relative to the base color. This results in slight vibrating tension between the complementary colors.
This color scale contains cold colors. There are variants of yellow and blue colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Spanish Bistre, Olive, Independence, Purple Navy, Wild Blue Yonder and Blue Bell.
Triadic
The triadic scale is generated by choosing two colors on the color wheel relative to the base color. This combines the slight vibrating tension and the harmonic feeling between the triadic colors.
This color scale contains cold colors. There are variants of yellow, rose and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Spanish Bistre, Olive, Eggplant, Dark Byzantium, Lilac, Lilac Luster, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Dark Slate Gray, Dark Sky Blue and Maximum Blue.
Tetradic
The tetradic scale is generated by choosing three colors on the color wheel relative to the base color. This combination covers the whole color wheel containing both the complementary and harmonic colors of the base color.
This color scale contains cold and warm colors. There are variants of yellow, cyan, blue and red colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Spanish Bistre, Olive, Deep Jungle Green, Warm Black, Maximum Blue Green, Tiffany Blue, Independence, Purple Navy, Wild Blue Yonder, Blue Bell, Rose Ebony, Dark Liver (horses), Tuscany and Pastel Pink.
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