#E3CD4E#E3CD4E

#E3CD4E is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.605; OKLCH L 84.4% C 0.146 H 99.4°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.11:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E3CD4E
RGB	rgb(227, 205, 78)
HSL	hsl(51, 73%, 60%)
HSV	hsv(51, 66%, 89%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 9.7%, 65.6%, 11%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.13, -6.62, 63.65)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.13, 64.00, 95.94°)
OKLab	oklab(84.37% -0.0237 0.1437)
OKLCH	oklch(84.37% 0.146 99.4)
XYZ	xyz(54.8874, 60.5461, 16.0017)
Luminance	0.6054 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E3CD4E #4E64E3

analogous

#E3834E #E3CD4E #AFE34E

triadic

#E3CD4E #4EE3CD #CD4EE3

tetradic

#E3CD4E #4EE383 #4E64E3 #E34EAF

square

#E3CD4E #4EE383 #4E64E3 #E34EAF

split-complementary

#E3CD4E #4EAFE3 #834EE3

monochromatic

#9E8A19 #D3B821 #E3CD4E #EBDC83 #F4EBB8

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.60

#E3CD4E on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.11

#E3CD4E on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E3CD4E

13.11:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E3CD4E	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E3CD4E	1.00	1.60	13.11	13.11
#FFFFFF	1.60	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.11	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.11	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E0C83E

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E6D055

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F4BFB3

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CCCCCC

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e3cd4e;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(227, 205, 78);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.4% 0.146 99.4);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#efdb86',
    500: '#e3cd4e',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e3cd4e;
$custom-light: #efdb86;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e3cd4e",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 227,
    "g": 205,
    "b": 78
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 51.141,
    "s": 72.683,
    "l": 59.804
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84374,
    "c": 0.14568,
    "h": 99.4
  },
  "luminance": 0.60544
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E3CD4E

secondary

#3444A1

accent

#53EF38

background

#FFFEFB

surface

#FFFBF2

border

#D7D4CC

text

#17150B

muted

#85847E

Preview Lab

Preview with #E3CD4E

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

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