#D9D74E#D9D74E

#D9D74E is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.639; OKLCH L 85.6% C 0.155 H 108.5°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.78:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#D9D74E
RGB	rgb(217, 215, 78)
HSL	hsl(59, 65%, 58%)
HSV	hsv(59, 64%, 85%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 0.9%, 64.1%, 14.9%)
CIE-LAB	lab(83.92, -15.81, 65.25)
CIE-LCH	lch(83.92, 67.14, 103.62°)
OKLab	oklab(85.59% -0.0492 0.1474)
OKLCH	oklch(85.59% 0.155 108.5)
XYZ	xyz(54.2927, 63.9043, 16.6811)
Luminance	0.6390 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#D9D74E #4E50D9

analogous

#D9924E #D9D74E #95D94E

triadic

#D9D74E #4ED9D7 #D74ED9

tetradic

#D9D74E #4ED992 #4E50D9 #D94E95

square

#D9D74E #4ED992 #4E50D9 #D94E95

split-complementary

#D9D74E #4E95D9 #924ED9

monochromatic

#8E8C1F #C0BE29 #D9D74E #E4E280 #EFEEB3

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.52

#D9D74E on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.78

#D9D74E on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #D9D74E

13.78:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##D9D74E	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##D9D74E	1.00	1.52	13.78	13.78
#FFFFFF	1.52	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.78	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.78	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E8CF3C

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EAD457

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#E8CABB

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D1D1D1

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #d9d74e;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(217, 215, 78);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(85.6% 0.155 108.5);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#e8e386',
    500: '#d9d74e',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #d9d74e;
$custom-light: #e8e386;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#d9d74e",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 217,
    "g": 215,
    "b": 78
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 59.137,
    "s": 64.651,
    "l": 57.843
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.8559,
    "c": 0.15538,
    "h": 108.5
  },
  "luminance": 0.63903
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#D9D74E

secondary

#383994

accent

#43E840

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFCF3

border

#D6D5CD

text

#16150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #D9D74E

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

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