Light Yellow — 11-step color scale

Light Yellow (#ffffe0) sits at 500, untouched. Every other step is Light Yellow 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 Light Yellow 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.#ffffe0

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 Light Yellow

Success, warning, error and the rest are derived from Light Yellow 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 #ffffe0

Suggested	Protanopia	Deuteranopia	Tritanopia
success#8dbaa1	17.1	19.5	25.8
warning#cca589	20.1	18.5	26.1
error#c9a0ba	29.5	25.4	25.0
discovery#9baed5	33.7	34.8	24.2
info#80b9c1	25.1	29.3	28.5
neutral#afaf9d	18.8	18.8	18.4

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

Every suggested color clears ΔE₀₀ 11 from Light Yellow under all three simulations, so nothing needed nudging — the family hues sit far enough from Light Yellow on their own.

Export Light Yellow

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: #fffffd;
  --color-color-100: #fffff8;
  --color-color-200: #fffff3;
  --color-color-300: #ffffee;
  --color-color-400: #ffffe6;
  --color-color-500: #ffffe0;
  --color-color-600: #ccccb3;
  --color-color-700: #8f8f7d;
  --color-color-800: #66665a;
  --color-color-900: #3d3d36;
  --color-color-950: #141412;
}

SCSS

$color-color-50: #fffffd;
$color-color-100: #fffff8;
$color-color-200: #fffff3;
$color-color-300: #ffffee;
$color-color-400: #ffffe6;
$color-color-500: #ffffe0;
$color-color-600: #ccccb3;
$color-color-700: #8f8f7d;
$color-color-800: #66665a;
$color-color-900: #3d3d36;
$color-color-950: #141412;

JavaScript

export const color = {
  50: '#fffffd',
  100: '#fffff8',
  200: '#fffff3',
  300: '#ffffee',
  400: '#ffffe6',
  500: '#ffffe0',
  600: '#ccccb3',
  700: '#8f8f7d',
  800: '#66665a',
  900: '#3d3d36',
  950: '#141412',
};

JSON

{
  "color": {
    "50": "#fffffd",
    "100": "#fffff8",
    "200": "#fffff3",
    "300": "#ffffee",
    "400": "#ffffe6",
    "500": "#ffffe0",
    "600": "#ccccb3",
    "700": "#8f8f7d",
    "800": "#66665a",
    "900": "#3d3d36",
    "950": "#141412"
  }
}

Figma Variables

{
  "color": {
    "50": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          1,
          0.9921568627450981
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFFFFD"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:1",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "100": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          1,
          0.9725490196078431
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFFFF8"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:2",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "200": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          1,
          0.9529411764705882
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFFFF3"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:3",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "300": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          1,
          0.9333333333333333
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFFFEE"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:4",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "400": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          1,
          0.9019607843137255
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFFFE6"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:5",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "500": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          1,
          0.8784313725490196
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFFFE0"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:6",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "600": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.8,
          0.8,
          0.7019607843137254
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#CCCCB3"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:7",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "700": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.5607843137254902,
          0.5607843137254902,
          0.49019607843137253
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#8F8F7D"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:8",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "800": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.4,
          0.4,
          0.35294117647058826
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#66665A"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:9",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "900": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.23921568627450981,
          0.23921568627450981,
          0.21176470588235294
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#3D3D36"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:10",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "950": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.0784313725490196,
          0.0784313725490196,
          0.07058823529411765
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#141412"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:11",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    }
  },
  "$extensions": {
    "com.figma.modeName": "Value"
  }
}

Open Light Yellow in the generator How the scale is built