#D8D55E#D8D55E

#D8D55E is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.630; OKLCH L 85.2% C 0.141 H 107.7°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.60:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#D8D55E
RGB	rgb(216, 213, 94)
HSL	hsl(59, 61%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(59, 56%, 85%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 1.4%, 56.5%, 15.3%)
CIE-LAB	lab(83.44, -14.16, 57.96)
CIE-LCH	lch(83.44, 59.66, 103.73°)
OKLab	oklab(85.24% -0.0428 0.1341)
OKLCH	oklch(85.24% 0.141 107.7)
XYZ	xyz(54.1351, 62.9971, 19.8955)
Luminance	0.6300 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#D8D55E #5E61D8

analogous

#D8985E #D8D55E #9ED85E

triadic

#D8D55E #5ED8D5 #D55ED8

tetradic

#D8D55E #5ED898 #5E61D8 #D85E9E

square

#D8D55E #5ED898 #5E61D8 #D85E9E

split-complementary

#D8D55E #5E9ED8 #985ED8

monochromatic

#979425 #C8C531 #D8D55E #E4E28F #F0EFC1

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.54

#D8D55E on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.60

#D8D55E on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #D8D55E

13.60:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##D8D55E	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##D8D55E	1.00	1.54	13.60	13.60
#FFFFFF	1.54	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.60	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.60	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E5CD51

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E7D265

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#E6C9BB

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D0D0D0

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #d8d55e;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(216, 213, 94);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(85.2% 0.141 107.7);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#e7e190',
    500: '#d8d55e',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #d8d55e;
$custom-light: #e7e190;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#d8d55e",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 216,
    "g": 213,
    "b": 94
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 58.525,
    "s": 61,
    "l": 60.784
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.85235,
    "c": 0.14077,
    "h": 107.7
  },
  "luminance": 0.62996
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#D8D55E

secondary

#3F419C

accent

#21C91D

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFCF4

border

#D6D5CE

text

#16150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #D8D55E

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

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