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Muted Yellow
#AEA88F

Muted Yellow (#AEA88F) with RGB(174, 168, 143) and HSL(48, 16%, 62%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

YellowSoftwarm

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Values

Production-ready color values

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HEX

#AEA88F

RGB

rgb(174, 168, 143)

HSL

hsl(48, 16%, 62%)

HSV

hsv(48, 18%, 68%)

CMYK

cmyk(0%, 3%, 18%, 32%)

Decimal

11446415

Contrast

Accessibility checks

On white

2.39:1

On black

8.8:1

Shades

Tonal scale

#181611 #2C2A20 #4A4636 #68624B #857E60 #9F977A #B4AE97 #C5C1AF #D8D6CA #ECEAE4

90080070060050040030020010050

Accessibility

Contrast Audit

On White

FAIL

Text

2.39:1

On Black

WCAG AA PASS

Text

8.80:1

Vision

Simulator

protanopia

deuteranopia

tritanopia

Harmonies

Palette combinations from this base color

Open any harmony as a shareable palette route and keep refining from there.

Complementary

Open palette

#AEA88F #8F95AE

Triadic

Open palette

#AEA78F #8FAEA7 #A78FAE

Analogous

Open palette

#AE988F #AEA08F #AEA78F #ACAE8F #A4AE8F

Split complementary

Open palette

#AEA78F #8FA4AE #988FAE

Tetradic

Open palette

#AEA78F #8FAE98 #8F95AE #AE8FA4

Monochromatic

Open palette

#3B382B #68624B #948C6B #B4AE97 #D4D1C4

Analysis

Design expert profile

Detailed psychological and professional strategy for this specific tone.

Muted Yellow (#AEA88F) with RGB(174, 168, 143) and HSL(48, 16%, 62%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

yellowsoftwarmhex-aea88fh-48s-16l-62

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Developer Handoff

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CSS

/* Muted Yellow */
color: #AEA88F;
background-color: #AEA88F;
border-color: #AEA88F;
box-shadow: 0 4px 24px #aea88f40;

Tailwind CSS

bg-[#AEA88F] text-[#AEA88F] border-[#AEA88F] ring-[#AEA88F]

SwiftUI

Color(red: 0.682, green: 0.659, blue: 0.561)

Flutter / Dart

Color(0xFFAEA88F)

Android XML

<color name="muted_yellow">#AEA88F</color>

React Native

{ color: '#AEA88F' }

Social Media

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About

About Muted Yellow

This section gives the same kind of richer color context you’d expect from a dedicated color reference page.

Meaning

Muted Yellow sits in the yellow family with a soft tone, so it holds enough weight for primary UI accents. It reads as energetic, social, and forward-moving.

Applications

Muted Yellow (#AEA88F) with RGB(174, 168, 143) and HSL(48, 16%, 62%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems. It performs better as foreground color on dark interfaces and dense contrast surfaces.

Family

Yellow

Tone

Soft

Temperature

warm

Keywords

yellow, soft, warm, hex-aea88f, h-48, s-16

Conversion

Color conversions

Use these values in CSS, product docs, design tokens, and print-oriented workflows.

HEX

#AEA88F

RGB

rgb(174, 168, 143)

HSL

hsl(48, 16%, 62%)

HSV

hsv(48, 18%, 68%)

CMYK

cmyk(0%, 3%, 18%, 32%)

Variations

Shades and tonal variations

Build softer surfaces, deeper states, and a cleaner tonal system from the same base hue.

#181611 #2C2A20 #4A4636 #68624B #857E60 #9F977A #B4AE97 #C5C1AF #D8D6CA #ECEAE4

900

#181611

800

#2C2A20

700

#4A4636

600

#68624B

500

#857E60

400

#9F977A

Color harmonies

Harmony-based palette routes

Move from a single color into full palette ideas based on common harmony systems.

Complementary

Open palette

#AEA88F #8F95AE

Triadic

Open palette

#AEA78F #8FAEA7 #A78FAE

Analogous

Open palette

#AE988F #AEA08F #AEA78F #ACAE8F #A4AE8F

Split complementary

Open palette

#AEA78F #8FA4AE #988FAE

Tetradic

Open palette

#AEA78F #8FAE98 #8F95AE #AE8FA4

Monochromatic

Open palette

#3B382B #68624B #948C6B #B4AE97 #D4D1C4

Blindness simulator

Color blindness preview

These simulations help you judge whether the color keeps enough identity across common color-vision variations.

Protanopia

#ABAB95

Red-sensitive cones are reduced, so warm reds and greens can collapse toward similar mid-tones.

Deuteranopia

#ACAC97

Green-sensitive cones are reduced, which often compresses green and red distinctions.

Tritanopia

#AE9A9B

Blue-sensitive cones are reduced, which shifts blues and yellows toward flatter blends.

Contrast checker

Accessibility contrast snapshots

Use these quick checks to understand where the color is more reliable for text, icons, and UI foregrounds.

On white

2.39:1

Fails normal and large text guidance.

On black

8.8:1

AAA passes for normal text.

Similar colors

Nearby color references

Use nearby colors when you want alternatives with a similar overall feel but a different hue or intensity.

Color libraries

Library-ready mappings

These mappings help you slot the color into CSS names, Tailwind-like scales, and semantic design tokens faster.

CSS named match

Muted Yellow

Closest standard CSS name to #AEA88F for developer-friendly reference and docs.

Design token

--color-yellow-soft

A token-friendly alias you can use in design systems, Tailwind maps, or CSS variables.

Tailwind-friendly scale

yellow-500

A naming pattern that fits Tailwind-style scale systems and keeps #AEA88F as the core value.

HSL token

48 16% 62%

Useful when your component library or theme layer stores semantic colors in HSL channels.

Color palettes

Palette ideas related to this color

These palette routes are pulled from the curated library based on RGB similarity, so you can branch into more complete systems quickly.

Muted Yellow#AEA88F

UI Sandbox

Production-ready color values

Accessibility checks

Tonal scale

Contrast Audit

Simulator

Palette combinations from this base color

Design expert profile

Language

Copy for any framework

Share this color

Muted Yellow

Nearby named colors

Closest real-world color

About Muted Yellow

Color conversions

Shades and tonal variations

Harmony-based palette routes

Color blindness preview

Accessibility contrast snapshots

Nearby color references

Library-ready mappings

Palette ideas related to this color

Muted Yellow
#AEA88F