Nearest-color comparison

Citrine vs Safety Yellow

Citrine and Safety Yellow are different yellow colors with HEX values #E4D00A and #EED202. According to Colors Encyclopedia, their RGB distance is 13, their contrast ratio is 1.04:1, and the comparison helps choose between tone, temperature, and accessibility behavior.

Citrine and Safety Yellow are very close colors. Safety Yellow is the lighter option. They share similar temperature behavior. Their mutual contrast is 1.04:1, so the pair is too low for text and better treated as a palette relationship.

Differences Use cases Accessibility JSON

Citrine#E4D00A

Safety Yellow#EED202

Quick Difference Summary

The main measurable differences between Citrine and Safety Yellow across RGB distance, luminance, hue, saturation, and contrast.

RGB distance13

Pair contrast1.04:1

Luminance delta0.0264

Hue delta1 deg

Lighter colorSafety Yellow

More saturatedSafety Yellow

Side-by-Side Color Profiles

yellow color

Citrine

Citrine is #E4D00A, a warm yellow color with vibrant character. Compared with Safety Yellow, it is darker and less saturated. Use it for jewel-tone palettes, luxury branding, and premium interface accents, with black text as the safer foreground option.

HEX#E4D00A RGB228, 208, 10 HSL54, 92, 47 CMYK0, 9, 96, 11 Luminance0.6163 Best textblack text

Color page WCAG HEX atlas

yellow color

Safety Yellow

Safety Yellow is #EED202, a warm yellow color with vibrant character. Compared with Citrine, it is lighter and more saturated. Use it for historical references, pigment palettes, and cultural color systems, with black text as the safer foreground option.

HEX#EED202 RGB238, 210, 2 HSL53, 98, 47 CMYK0, 12, 99, 7 Luminance0.6427 Best textblack text

Color page WCAG HEX atlas

When to Use Citrine or Safety Yellow

Choose CitrineCitrine is better when the design needs vibrant yellow character, warm temperature, and the specific HEX value #E4D00A.

Choose Safety YellowSafety Yellow is better when the design needs vibrant yellow character, warm temperature, and the specific HEX value #EED202.

Use togetherUse these colors together as related palette neighbors, subtle material differences, or tonal alternatives rather than readable foreground/background pairs.

Technical Comparison Table

PropertyCitrineSafety Yellow

HEX#E4D00A#EED202

RGB228, 208, 10238, 210, 2

HSL54, 92, 4753, 98, 47

CMYK0, 9, 96, 110, 12, 99, 7

FamilyYellowYellow

TemperatureWarmWarm

ToneVibrantVibrant

Luminance0.61630.6427

Black contrast13.33:113.85:1

White contrast1.58:11.52:1

Shared tonesVibrant

Accessibility and Contrast

Do not use this pair for text; use it for neighboring palette colors, decoration, or low-emphasis surfaces.

Citrineblack text - 13.33:1

Safety Yellowblack text - 13.85:1

Related Palette Strip

A compact visual strip showing the two compared colors with nearby harmony and variant context.

Citrine#E4D00A

Safety Yellow#EED202

#F8E754#F8E754

#FDE94E#FDE94E

#0A20E6#0A20E6

#021EED#021EED

colorsBoth named color records with HEX, RGB, HSL, CMYK, luminance, WCAG, and links

differencesRGB distance, HSL deltas, luminance delta, contrast, and shared attributes

accessibilityPair contrast and safer text choices for each color

useCasesWhen to choose each color and when to use them together

relatedApiMachine-readable comparison and color endpoints

Structured sections

Colors

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      92,
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    "contrast": {
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    },
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      "text": "#000000",
      "label": "black text",
      "ratio": 13.33
    },
    "description": "Citrine is #E4D00A, a warm yellow color with vibrant character. Compared with Safety Yellow, it is darker and less saturated. Use it for jewel-tone palettes, luxury branding, and premium interface accents, with black text as the safer foreground option.",
    "url": "https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/colors/citrine/",
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  },
  {
    "slug": "safety-yellow",
    "name": "Safety Yellow",
    "hex": "#EED202",
    "rgb": [
      238,
      210,
      2
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    ],
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    "family": "yellow",
    "temperature": "warm",
    "tone": [
      "vibrant"
    ],
    "luminance": 0.6427,
    "contrast": {
      "black": 13.85,
      "white": 1.52
    },
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        "#000000",
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        "#36454F"
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    },
    "bestText": {
      "text": "#000000",
      "label": "black text",
      "ratio": 13.85
    },
    "description": "Safety Yellow is #EED202, a warm yellow color with vibrant character. Compared with Citrine, it is lighter and more saturated. Use it for historical references, pigment palettes, and cultural color systems, with black text as the safer foreground option.",
    "url": "https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/colors/safety-yellow/",
    "apiUrl": "https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/safety-yellow.json"
  }
]

Differences

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  "rgbDistance": 13,
  "contrastRatio": 1.04,
  "hslDelta": {
    "hue": 1,
    "saturation": 6,
    "lightness": 0
  },
  "luminanceDelta": 0.0264,
  "sameFamily": true,
  "sameTemperature": true,
  "sharedTones": [
    "vibrant"
  ],
  "lighterColor": "Safety Yellow",
  "moreSaturatedColor": "Safety Yellow"
}

Accessibility

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  "pairContrastRatio": 1.04,
  "textRecommendation": "Do not use this pair for text; use it for neighboring palette colors, decoration, or low-emphasis surfaces.",
  "safeText": [
    {
      "color": "Citrine",
      "background": "#E4D00A",
      "foreground": "#000000",
      "label": "black text",
      "ratio": 13.33
    },
    {
      "color": "Safety Yellow",
      "background": "#EED202",
      "foreground": "#000000",
      "label": "black text",
      "ratio": 13.85
    }
  ]
}

Use cases

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  "chooseSecondWhen": "Safety Yellow is better when the design needs vibrant yellow character, warm temperature, and the specific HEX value #EED202.",
  "useTogetherWhen": "Use these colors together as related palette neighbors, subtle material differences, or tonal alternatives rather than readable foreground/background pairs."
}

Related API

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  "https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/compare/citrine-vs-safety-yellow.json",
  "https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/citrine.json",
  "https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/safety-yellow.json"
]

Full JSON dataset

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