#A9A123#A9A123

#A9A123 is a light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.340; OKLCH L 69.5% C 0.138 H 105.6°. Best body text is #000000 at 7.81:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#A9A123
RGB	rgb(169, 161, 35)
HSL	hsl(56, 66%, 40%)
HSV	hsv(56, 79%, 66%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 4.7%, 79.3%, 33.7%)
CIE-LAB	lab(65.00, -10.95, 61.04)
CIE-LCH	lch(65.00, 62.02, 100.17°)
OKLab	oklab(69.45% -0.0371 0.1326)
OKLCH	oklch(69.45% 0.138 105.6)
XYZ	xyz(29.4117, 34.0473, 6.6123)
Luminance	0.3405 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#A9A123 #232BA9

analogous

#A95E23 #A9A123 #6EA923

triadic

#A9A123 #23A9A1 #A123A9

tetradic

#A9A123 #23A95E #232BA9 #A9236E

square

#A9A123 #23A95E #232BA9 #A9236E

split-complementary

#A9A123 #236EA9 #5E23A9

monochromatic

#44400E #767119 #A9A123 #D5CB34 #DFD867

Accessibility & contrast

On white

2.69

#A9A123 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

7.81

#A9A123 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #A9A123

7.81:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##A9A123	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##A9A123	1.00	2.69	7.81	7.81
#FFFFFF	2.69	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	7.81	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	7.81	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#B09B00

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#B3A02E

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#B6968A

Achromatopsia (no color)

#9E9E9E

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #a9a123;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(169, 161, 35);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(69.5% 0.138 105.6);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#c6bc6a',
    500: '#a9a123',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #a9a123;
$custom-light: #c6bc6a;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#a9a123",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 169,
    "g": 161,
    "b": 35
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 56.418,
    "s": 65.686,
    "l": 40
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.69453,
    "c": 0.13769,
    "h": 105.6
  },
  "luminance": 0.34046
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#A9A123

secondary

#6369C5

accent

#49E93F

background

#FCFBF6

surface

#F9F6EC

border

#D2D0C7

text

#141107

muted

#82807A

Preview Lab

Preview with #A9A123

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

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