#D9D939#D9D939

#D9D939 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.647; OKLCH L 85.9% C 0.171 H 109.5°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.93:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#D9D939
RGB	rgb(217, 217, 57)
HSL	hsl(60, 68%, 54%)
HSV	hsv(60, 74%, 85%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 0%, 73.7%, 14.9%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.32, -17.85, 73.23)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.32, 75.37, 103.70°)
OKLab	oklab(85.87% -0.057 0.1607)
OKLCH	oklch(85.87% 0.171 109.5)
XYZ	xyz(54.1686, 64.6745, 13.5001)
Luminance	0.6467 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#D9D939 #3939D9

analogous

#D98939 #D9D939 #89D939

triadic

#D9D939 #39D9D9 #D939D9

tetradic

#D9D939 #39D989 #3939D9 #D93989

square

#D9D939 #39D989 #3939D9 #D93989

split-complementary

#D9D939 #3989D9 #8939D9

monochromatic

#7F7F18 #B3B322 #D9D939 #E3E36C #EDEDA0

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.51

#D9D939 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.93

#D9D939 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #D9D939

13.93:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##D9D939	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##D9D939	1.00	1.51	13.93	13.93
#FFFFFF	1.51	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.93	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.93	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#EBD014

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#ECD546

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#E8CBBB

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D2D2D2

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #d9d939;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(217, 217, 57);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(85.9% 0.171 109.5);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#e9e47b',
    500: '#d9d939',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #d9d939;
$custom-light: #e9e47b;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#d9d939",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 217,
    "g": 217,
    "b": 57
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 60,
    "s": 67.797,
    "l": 53.725
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.85867,
    "c": 0.17053,
    "h": 109.5
  },
  "luminance": 0.64673
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#D9D939

secondary

#303086

accent

#3DEB3D

background

#FFFEFB

surface

#FEFCF2

border

#D6D5CC

text

#17150A

muted

#85847D

Preview Lab

Preview with #D9D939

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

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