#C8C14E#C8C14E

#C8C14E is a light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.510; OKLCH L 79.5% C 0.136 H 105.8°. Best body text is #000000 at 11.19:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#C8C14E
RGB	rgb(200, 193, 78)
HSL	hsl(57, 53%, 55%)
HSV	hsv(57, 61%, 78%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 3.5%, 61%, 21.6%)
CIE-LAB	lab(76.66, -11.83, 57.13)
CIE-LCH	lch(76.66, 58.34, 101.70°)
OKLab	oklab(79.47% -0.037 0.1306)
OKLCH	oklch(79.47% 0.136 105.8)
XYZ	xyz(44.2660, 50.9708, 14.7128)
Luminance	0.5097 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#C8C14E #4E55C8

analogous

#C8844E #C8C14E #92C84E

triadic

#C8C14E #4EC8C1 #C14EC8

tetradic

#C8C14E #4EC884 #4E55C8 #C84E92

square

#C8C14E #4EC884 #4E55C8 #C84E92

split-complementary

#C8C14E #4E92C8 #844EC8

monochromatic

#777225 #A59F33 #C8C14E #D7D17D #E5E2AB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.88

#C8C14E on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

11.19

#C8C14E on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #C8C14E

11.19:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##C8C14E	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##C8C14E	1.00	1.88	11.19	11.19
#FFFFFF	1.88	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	11.19	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	11.19	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#D0BA41

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#D3BF55

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#D6B5A9

Achromatopsia (no color)

#BDBDBD

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #c8c14e;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(200, 193, 78);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(79.5% 0.136 105.8);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#dcd384',
    500: '#c8c14e',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #c8c14e;
$custom-light: #dcd384;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#c8c14e",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 200,
    "g": 193,
    "b": 78
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 56.557,
    "s": 52.586,
    "l": 54.51
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.79472,
    "c": 0.13577,
    "h": 105.8
  },
  "luminance": 0.50969
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#C8C14E

secondary

#3B3F7F

accent

#54DC4C

background

#FEFEFB

surface

#FCFBF2

border

#D5D4CC

text

#15140B

muted

#84837E

Preview Lab

Preview with #C8C14E

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

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