#D9D65A#D9D65A

#D9D65A is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.636; OKLCH L 85.5% C 0.145 H 107.8°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.72:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#D9D65A
RGB	rgb(217, 214, 90)
HSL	hsl(59, 63%, 60%)
HSV	hsv(59, 59%, 85%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 1.4%, 58.5%, 14.9%)
CIE-LAB	lab(83.75, -14.54, 60.08)
CIE-LCH	lch(83.75, 61.81, 103.61°)
OKLab	oklab(85.49% -0.0444 0.1381)
OKLCH	oklch(85.49% 0.145 107.8)
XYZ	xyz(54.5090, 63.5846, 19.0726)
Luminance	0.6358 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#D9D65A #5A5DD9

analogous

#D9975A #D9D65A #9CD95A

triadic

#D9D65A #5AD9D6 #D65AD9

tetradic

#D9D65A #5AD997 #5A5DD9 #D95A9C

square

#D9D65A #5AD997 #5A5DD9 #D95A9C

split-complementary

#D9D65A #5A9CD9 #975AD9

monochromatic

#969323 #C8C42E #D9D65A #E4E28C #F0EFBD

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.53

#D9D65A on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.72

#D9D65A on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #D9D65A

13.72:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##D9D65A	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##D9D65A	1.00	1.53	13.72	13.72
#FFFFFF	1.53	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.72	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.72	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E6CE4C

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E8D361

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#E7C9BB

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D1D1D1

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #d9d65a;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(217, 214, 90);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(85.5% 0.145 107.8);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#e7e28d',
    500: '#d9d65a',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #d9d65a;
$custom-light: #e7e28d;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#d9d65a",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 217,
    "g": 214,
    "b": 90
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 58.583,
    "s": 62.562,
    "l": 60.196
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.85488,
    "c": 0.14505,
    "h": 107.8
  },
  "luminance": 0.63583
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#D9D65A

secondary

#3C3F9B

accent

#1FCA1B

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFCF4

border

#D6D5CE

text

#16150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #D9D65A

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

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