#D8D938#D8D938

#D8D938 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.645; OKLCH L 85.8% C 0.171 H 109.9°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.90:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#D8D938
RGB	rgb(216, 217, 56)
HSL	hsl(60, 68%, 54%)
HSV	hsv(60, 74%, 85%)
CMYK	cmyk(0.5%, 0%, 74.2%, 14.9%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.23, -18.31, 73.44)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.23, 75.69, 104.00°)
OKLab	oklab(85.78% -0.0583 0.1611)
OKLCH	oklch(85.78% 0.171 109.9)
XYZ	xyz(53.8475, 64.5118, 13.3561)
Luminance	0.6451 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#D8D938 #3938D9

analogous

#D98938 #D8D938 #87D938

triadic

#D8D938 #38D8D9 #D938D8

tetradic

#D8D938 #38D989 #3938D9 #D93887

square

#D8D938 #38D989 #3938D9 #D93887

split-complementary

#D8D938 #3887D9 #8938D9

monochromatic

#7E7E18 #B1B222 #D8D938 #E2E36B #ECED9F

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.51

#D8D938 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.90

#D8D938 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #D8D938

13.90:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##D8D938	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##D8D938	1.00	1.51	13.90	13.90
#FFFFFF	1.51	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.90	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.90	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#EBD011

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#ECD445

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#E7CBBB

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D2D2D2

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #d8d938;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(216, 217, 56);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(85.8% 0.171 109.9);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#e8e47b',
    500: '#d8d938',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #d8d938;
$custom-light: #e8e47b;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#d8d938",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 216,
    "g": 217,
    "b": 56
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 60.373,
    "s": 67.932,
    "l": 53.529
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.85779,
    "c": 0.17127,
    "h": 109.9
  },
  "luminance": 0.6451
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#D8D938

secondary

#303086

accent

#3DEB3E

background

#FFFEFB

surface

#FEFCF2

border

#D6D5CC

text

#17150A

muted

#85847D

Preview Lab

Preview with #D8D938

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

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