#A09817#A09817

#A09817 is a light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.300; OKLCH L 66.6% C 0.136 H 105.6°. Best body text is #000000 at 7.00:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#A09817
RGB	rgb(160, 152, 23)
HSL	hsl(56, 75%, 36%)
HSV	hsv(56, 86%, 63%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 5%, 85.6%, 37.3%)
CIE-LAB	lab(61.65, -10.61, 61.14)
CIE-LCH	lch(61.65, 62.06, 99.84°)
OKLab	oklab(66.58% -0.0366 0.131)
OKLCH	oklch(66.58% 0.136 105.6)
XYZ	xyz(25.8813, 29.9930, 5.2364)
Luminance	0.2999 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#A09817 #171FA0

analogous

#A05317 #A09817 #63A017

triadic

#A09817 #17A098 #9817A0

tetradic

#A09817 #17A053 #171FA0 #A01763

square

#A09817 #17A053 #171FA0 #A01763

split-complementary

#A09817 #1763A0 #5317A0

monochromatic

#353208 #6A650F #A09817 #D6CB1F #E5DC4C

Accessibility & contrast

On white

3.00

#A09817 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✓AAA ✗

On black

7.00

#A09817 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #A09817

7.00:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##A09817	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##A09817	1.00	3.00	7.00	7.00
#FFFFFF	3.00	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	7.00	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	7.00	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#A69200

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#A99724

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#AD8D81

Achromatopsia (no color)

#959595

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #a09817;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(160, 152, 23);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(66.6% 0.136 105.6);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#c0b664',
    500: '#a09817',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #a09817;
$custom-light: #c0b664;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#a09817",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 160,
    "g": 152,
    "b": 23
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 56.496,
    "s": 74.863,
    "l": 35.882
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.66576,
    "c": 0.13601,
    "h": 105.6
  },
  "luminance": 0.29992
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#A09817

secondary

#4C53C7

accent

#41F136

background

#FCFBF6

surface

#F8F6EB

border

#D1D0C6

text

#131106

muted

#82807A

Preview Lab

Preview with #A09817

Body copy rendered with the generated semantic roles for this colour.

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