Duckling Fluff

#fafc5d

Lighter butter-yellow gray for soft highlights

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About Duckling Fluff

Duckling Fluff sits right at the edge of where yellow stops apologizing and starts actually glowing. It's lighter than but far more saturated than , that combination means it lands on screen with real presence without the aggressive edge that makes you squint. This is the yellow that feels intentional the moment you place it, not because it's screaming, but because there's actual color underneath.

You'll reach for it in design tools, documentation sites, and long-form interfaces where you need warmth that doesn't fatigue. Medical software dashboards, accessibility overlays, status indicators that need to signal without exhausting. It holds its own against dark text and reads cleanly on both warm and neutral backgrounds. Unlike Biohazard Suit, it doesn't announce, it invites. Unlike , it doesn't whisper.

The catch: it wants a warm or mid-tone background to feel fully itself. Throw it on pure white and the softness disappears; pair it with warm grays and it settles into exactly what it's meant to do.

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WCAG 2.1 contrast ratios. AA requires 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large. AAA requires 7:1 / 4.5:1.

On White #ffffff

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On Gray 100 #f5f5f5

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On Gray 900 #18181b

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16.15:1AAA

On Black #000000

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19.15:1AAA

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