#C5D849#C5D849

#C5D849 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.615; OKLCH L 84.2% C 0.165 H 116.6°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.29:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#C5D849
RGB	rgb(197, 216, 73)
HSL	hsl(68, 65%, 57%)
HSV	hsv(68, 66%, 85%)
CMYK	cmyk(8.8%, 0%, 66.2%, 15.3%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.63, -24.79, 65.40)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.63, 69.94, 110.75°)
OKLab	oklab(84.17% -0.0738 0.1475)
OKLCH	oklch(84.17% 0.165 116.6)
XYZ	xyz(48.7855, 61.4637, 15.5957)
Luminance	0.6146 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#C5D849 #5C49D8

analogous

#D8A449 #C5D849 #7ED849

triadic

#C5D849 #49C5D8 #D849C5

tetradic

#C5D849 #49D8A4 #5C49D8 #D8497E

square

#C5D849 #49D8A4 #5C49D8 #D8497E

split-complementary

#C5D849 #497ED8 #A449D8

monochromatic

#7B891D #A8BC28 #C5D849 #D5E37B #E5EEAE

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.58

#C5D849 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.29

#C5D849 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #C5D849

13.29:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##C5D849	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##C5D849	1.00	1.58	13.29	13.29
#FFFFFF	1.58	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.29	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.29	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E6CD34

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E5CF53

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#D1CCBB

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CECECE

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #c5d849;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(197, 216, 73);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.2% 0.165 116.6);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#dae483',
    500: '#c5d849',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #c5d849;
$custom-light: #dae483;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#c5d849",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 197,
    "g": 216,
    "b": 73
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 67.972,
    "s": 64.706,
    "l": 56.667
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84172,
    "c": 0.16488,
    "h": 116.6
  },
  "luminance": 0.61463
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#C5D849

secondary

#42368F

accent

#40E856

background

#FEFEFB

surface

#FCFCF2

border

#D5D5CC

text

#15150B

muted

#84847E

Preview Lab

Preview with #C5D849

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

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