Gold — 11-step color scale

Gold (#ffd700) sits at 500, untouched. Every other step is Gold composited over white or black at a decreasing opacity, so the whole ramp stays in one hue family instead of drifting toward another color at the ends.

Open Gold in the generator

8%50

24%100

40%200

56%300

80%400

100%500your color

80%600

56%700

40%800

24%900

8%950

Each step is the base composited over white or black at the opacity shown.#ffd700

For text that needs to pass AA on white, 800, 900, 950 clear the 4.5:1 line. On a dark surface, 50, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700 do.

Semantic colors from Gold

Success, warning, error and the rest are derived from Gold itself, then checked so they stay distinguishable from the base — and from each other — under the three types of color blindness. The distance below is CIEDE2000 after each simulation.

Derived from #ffd700

Suggested	Protanopia	Deuteranopia	Tritanopia
success#6bc84e	8.8	15.0	42.2
warning#fe8503	17.7	11.8	21.0
error#ff77c0	51.6	39.0	21.1
discovery#8baaff	57.6	60.7	39.3
info#00c4d7	44.0	51.3	44.0
neutral#8c8873	31.6	33.0	25.3

CIEDE2000 distance from the base under each simulation. The lowest of the three decides, and a dot marks the ones that land under 11.

The success suggestion starts out colliding with Gold under Protanopia — ΔE₀₀ 8.8, below the 11 threshold — so the engine shifts its hue within the success family until the pair pulls apart again.

Export Gold

The same five formats the generator produces, for this scale. Copy any block, or open the tool to tweak the ramp first.

CSS

:root {
  --color-color-50: #fffceb;
  --color-color-100: #fff5c2;
  --color-color-200: #ffef99;
  --color-color-300: #ffe970;
  --color-color-400: #ffdf33;
  --color-color-500: #ffd700;
  --color-color-600: #ccac00;
  --color-color-700: #8f7800;
  --color-color-800: #665600;
  --color-color-900: #3d3400;
  --color-color-950: #141100;
}

SCSS

$color-color-50: #fffceb;
$color-color-100: #fff5c2;
$color-color-200: #ffef99;
$color-color-300: #ffe970;
$color-color-400: #ffdf33;
$color-color-500: #ffd700;
$color-color-600: #ccac00;
$color-color-700: #8f7800;
$color-color-800: #665600;
$color-color-900: #3d3400;
$color-color-950: #141100;

JavaScript

export const color = {
  50: '#fffceb',
  100: '#fff5c2',
  200: '#ffef99',
  300: '#ffe970',
  400: '#ffdf33',
  500: '#ffd700',
  600: '#ccac00',
  700: '#8f7800',
  800: '#665600',
  900: '#3d3400',
  950: '#141100',
};

JSON

{
  "color": {
    "50": "#fffceb",
    "100": "#fff5c2",
    "200": "#ffef99",
    "300": "#ffe970",
    "400": "#ffdf33",
    "500": "#ffd700",
    "600": "#ccac00",
    "700": "#8f7800",
    "800": "#665600",
    "900": "#3d3400",
    "950": "#141100"
  }
}

Figma Variables

{
  "color": {
    "50": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          0.9882352941176471,
          0.9215686274509803
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFFCEB"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:1",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "100": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          0.9607843137254902,
          0.7607843137254902
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFF5C2"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:2",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "200": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          0.9372549019607843,
          0.6
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFEF99"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:3",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "300": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          0.9137254901960784,
          0.4392156862745098
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFE970"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:4",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "400": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          0.8745098039215686,
          0.2
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFDF33"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:5",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "500": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          0.8431372549019608,
          0
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFD700"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:6",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "600": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.8,
          0.6745098039215687,
          0
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#CCAC00"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:7",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "700": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.5607843137254902,
          0.47058823529411764,
          0
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#8F7800"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:8",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "800": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.4,
          0.33725490196078434,
          0
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#665600"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:9",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "900": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.23921568627450981,
          0.20392156862745098,
          0
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#3D3400"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:10",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "950": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.0784313725490196,
          0.06666666666666667,
          0
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#141100"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:11",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    }
  },
  "$extensions": {
    "com.figma.modeName": "Value"
  }
}

Open Gold in the generator How the scale is built