#B9C765#B9C765

#B9C765 is a light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.521; OKLCH L 79.8% C 0.124 H 116.0°. Best body text is #000000 at 11.42:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#B9C765
RGB	rgb(185, 199, 101)
HSL	hsl(69, 47%, 59%)
HSV	hsv(69, 49%, 78%)
CMYK	cmyk(7%, 0%, 49.2%, 22%)
CIE-LAB	lab(77.34, -19.15, 47.03)
CIE-LCH	lch(77.34, 50.78, 112.16°)
OKLab	oklab(79.8% -0.0545 0.1117)
OKLCH	oklch(79.8% 0.124 116)
XYZ	xyz(42.7805, 52.1012, 20.1123)
Luminance	0.5210 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#B9C765 #7365C7

analogous

#C7A465 #B9C765 #88C765

triadic

#B9C765 #65B9C7 #C765B9

tetradic

#B9C765 #65C7A4 #7365C7 #C76588

square

#B9C765 #65C7A4 #7365C7 #C76588

split-complementary

#B9C765 #6588C7 #A465C7

monochromatic

#76822F #9FAF40 #B9C765 #CDD792 #E2E8BF

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.84

#B9C765 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

11.42

#B9C765 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #B9C765

11.42:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##B9C765	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##B9C765	1.00	1.84	11.42	11.42
#FFFFFF	1.84	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	11.42	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	11.42	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#D3BE5C

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#D1C06A

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#C2BEB0

Achromatopsia (no color)

#BFBFBF

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #b9c765;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(185, 199, 101);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(79.8% 0.124 116.0);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#d0d893',
    500: '#b9c765',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #b9c765;
$custom-light: #d0d893;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#b9c765",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 185,
    "g": 199,
    "b": 101
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 68.571,
    "s": 46.667,
    "l": 58.824
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.79801,
    "c": 0.12426,
    "h": 116
  },
  "luminance": 0.52101
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#B9C765

secondary

#50468A

accent

#51D664

background

#FEFEFC

surface

#FBFBF4

border

#D4D4CE

text

#14140D

muted

#83837F

Preview Lab

Preview with #B9C765

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

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