Piss Yellow#DDD618

#DDD618 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.635; OKLCH L 85.4% C 0.180 H 107.2°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.71:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Piss Yellow — editorial page

Color values

HEX	#DDD618
RGB	rgb(221, 214, 24)
HSL	hsl(58, 80%, 48%)
HSV	hsv(58, 89%, 87%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 3.2%, 89.1%, 13.3%)
CIE-LAB	lab(83.72, -15.64, 80.86)
CIE-LCH	lch(83.72, 82.36, 100.95°)
OKLab	oklab(85.43% -0.0531 0.1716)
OKLCH	oklch(85.43% 0.18 107.2)
XYZ	xyz(54.0326, 63.5333, 10.2809)
Luminance	0.6353 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#DDD618 #181FDD

analogous

#DD7318 #DDD618 #81DD18

triadic

#DDD618 #18DDD6 #D618DD

tetradic

#DDD618 #18DD73 #181FDD #DD1881

square

#DDD618 #18DD73 #181FDD #DD1881

split-complementary

#DDD618 #1881DD #7318DD

monochromatic

#6F6B0C #A6A112 #DDD618 #EBE547 #F1ED7E

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.53

#DDD618 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.71

#DDD618 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #DDD618

13.71:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##DDD618	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##DDD618	1.00	1.53	13.71	13.71
#FFFFFF	1.53	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.71	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.71	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E9CD00

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#ECD430

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#EEC7B7

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D1D1D1

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #ddd618;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(221, 214, 24);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(85.4% 0.180 107.2);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#ece26f',
    500: '#ddd618',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #ddd618;
$custom-light: #ece26f;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#ddd618",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 221,
    "g": 214,
    "b": 24
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 57.868,
    "s": 80.408,
    "l": 48.039
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.85433,
    "c": 0.17964,
    "h": 107.2
  },
  "luminance": 0.63531
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#DDD618

secondary

#212578

accent

#38F731

background

#FFFEFB

surface

#FFFCF1

border

#D7D5CB

text

#171509

muted

#85847D

Preview Lab

Preview with #DDD618

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

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