#D9D84E#D9D84E

#D9D84E is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.644; OKLCH L 85.8% C 0.156 H 108.9°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.88:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#D9D84E
RGB	rgb(217, 216, 78)
HSL	hsl(60, 65%, 58%)
HSV	hsv(60, 64%, 85%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 0.5%, 64.1%, 14.9%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.18, -16.30, 65.53)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.18, 67.53, 103.97°)
OKLab	oklab(85.8% -0.0506 0.148)
OKLCH	oklch(85.8% 0.156 108.9)
XYZ	xyz(54.5481, 64.4151, 16.7662)
Luminance	0.6441 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#D9D84E #4E4FD9

analogous

#D9924E #D9D84E #95D94E

triadic

#D9D84E #4ED9D8 #D84ED9

tetradic

#D9D84E #4ED992 #4E4FD9 #D94E95

square

#D9D84E #4ED992 #4E4FD9 #D94E95

split-complementary

#D9D84E #4E95D9 #924ED9

monochromatic

#8E8D1F #C0BF29 #D9D84E #E4E380 #EFEEB3

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.51

#D9D84E on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.88

#D9D84E on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #D9D84E

13.88:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##D9D84E	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##D9D84E	1.00	1.51	13.88	13.88
#FFFFFF	1.51	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.88	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.88	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E9CF3B

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EBD457

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#E8CBBC

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D2D2D2

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #d9d84e;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(217, 216, 78);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(85.8% 0.156 108.9);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#e8e386',
    500: '#d9d84e',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #d9d84e;
$custom-light: #e8e386;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#d9d84e",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 217,
    "g": 216,
    "b": 78
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 59.568,
    "s": 64.651,
    "l": 57.843
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.85802,
    "c": 0.15639,
    "h": 108.9
  },
  "luminance": 0.64414
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#D9D84E

secondary

#383894

accent

#41E840

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFCF4

border

#D6D5CE

text

#16150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #D9D84E

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

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