Yellow — 11-step color scale

Yellow (#ffff00) sits at 500, untouched. Every other step is 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 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.#ffff00

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 Yellow

Success, warning, error and the rest are derived from 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 #ffff00

Suggested	Protanopia	Deuteranopia	Tritanopia
success#c5af00	17.9	16.9	21.6
warning#ff8382	32.3	23.2	33.7
error#ff70d6	61.9	54.5	35.0
discovery#75b0ff	66.3	69.2	33.4
info#00c2e4	55.9	62.2	32.3
neutral#8c8c73	35.4	35.6	27.8

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 Yellow under all three simulations, so nothing needed nudging — the family hues sit far enough from Yellow on their own.

Export 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: #ffffeb;
  --color-color-100: #ffffc2;
  --color-color-200: #ffff99;
  --color-color-300: #ffff70;
  --color-color-400: #ffff33;
  --color-color-500: #ffff00;
  --color-color-600: #cccc00;
  --color-color-700: #8f8f00;
  --color-color-800: #666600;
  --color-color-900: #3d3d00;
  --color-color-950: #141400;
}

SCSS

$color-color-50: #ffffeb;
$color-color-100: #ffffc2;
$color-color-200: #ffff99;
$color-color-300: #ffff70;
$color-color-400: #ffff33;
$color-color-500: #ffff00;
$color-color-600: #cccc00;
$color-color-700: #8f8f00;
$color-color-800: #666600;
$color-color-900: #3d3d00;
$color-color-950: #141400;

JavaScript

export const color = {
  50: '#ffffeb',
  100: '#ffffc2',
  200: '#ffff99',
  300: '#ffff70',
  400: '#ffff33',
  500: '#ffff00',
  600: '#cccc00',
  700: '#8f8f00',
  800: '#666600',
  900: '#3d3d00',
  950: '#141400',
};

JSON

{
  "color": {
    "50": "#ffffeb",
    "100": "#ffffc2",
    "200": "#ffff99",
    "300": "#ffff70",
    "400": "#ffff33",
    "500": "#ffff00",
    "600": "#cccc00",
    "700": "#8f8f00",
    "800": "#666600",
    "900": "#3d3d00",
    "950": "#141400"
  }
}

Figma Variables

{
  "color": {
    "50": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          1,
          0.9215686274509803
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFFFEB"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:1",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "100": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          1,
          0.7607843137254902
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFFFC2"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:2",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "200": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          1,
          0.6
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFFF99"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:3",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "300": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          1,
          0.4392156862745098
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFFF70"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:4",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "400": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          1,
          0.2
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFFF33"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:5",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "500": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          1,
          1,
          0
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#FFFF00"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:6",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "600": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.8,
          0.8,
          0
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#CCCC00"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:7",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "700": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.5607843137254902,
          0.5607843137254902,
          0
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#8F8F00"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:8",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "800": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.4,
          0.4,
          0
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#666600"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:9",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "900": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.23921568627450981,
          0.23921568627450981,
          0
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#3D3D00"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:10",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    },
    "950": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [
          0.0784313725490196,
          0.0784313725490196,
          0
        ],
        "alpha": 1,
        "hex": "#141400"
      },
      "$extensions": {
        "com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:1:11",
        "com.figma.isOverride": true
      }
    }
  },
  "$extensions": {
    "com.figma.modeName": "Value"
  }
}

Open Yellow in the generator How the scale is built