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Spotless Pineapple

#f5e378
Notes

Spotless Pineapple (#F5E378) is a soft amber with a warm character. It leans warm, pulling light toward red, orange, and yellow. Naturally inviting, it suits editorial and hospitality contexts. Its HSL profile (51°, 86%, 72%) places it in the highly saturated band at a light lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary blue. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#f5e378
RGB
rgb(245, 227, 120)
HSL
hsl(51, 86%, 72%)
HWB
hwb(51 47% 4%)
OKLCH
oklch(90.9% 0.130 99.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.9488 0.8927 0.5294)
HSV
hsv(51, 51%, 96%)
LAB
lab(89.72% -7.38 53.94)
LCH
lch(89.72% 54.45 97.79)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 7%, 51%, 4%)

Etymology

Spotless
adjective

Old English spott (spot) plus suffix -less. As a color modifier, spotless implies a clear-and-unmarked quality where the hue carries no contaminating speck or stain. Sits at the crisp-and-clean end of the grid, parallel to pristine and unblemished in usage.

Pineapple
noun

Ananas comosus, the cultivated pineapple — domesticated in the Caribbean and South America by the Tupí and a luxury good of seventeenth-century European glasshouses, where a single fruit could cost the equivalent of thousands of dollars. The color refers to a ripe pineapple's flesh: a clean, slightly translucent gold-yellow that's brighter than honey and softer than canary, with the optical brightness of high-water-content tropical fruit.

Closest matches

The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.

Variations

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Harmonies

Accessibility

Color-vision simulation

How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.

#f5e378
Original
#f5de6e
Protanopia
#fae57d
Deuteranopia
#ffd6ca
Tritanopia
#dfdfdf
Achromatopsia
WCAG contrast

The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.

The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon White
1.30:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
16.14:1

Wide gamut

Display P3 representation

The CSS Color 4 wide-gamut form of this color. Both swatches render the same color on every display — the P3 form only diverges from sRGB when a designer pushes channels outside sRGB's reach.

sRGB hex
sRGB hex
##F5E378
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.9488 0.8927 0.5294)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.130

Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.

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