#E3CE4E#E3CE4E

#E3CE4E is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.610; OKLCH L 84.6% C 0.146 H 99.9°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.20:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E3CE4E
RGB	rgb(227, 206, 78)
HSL	hsl(52, 73%, 60%)
HSV	hsv(52, 66%, 89%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 9.3%, 65.6%, 11%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.39, -7.13, 63.92)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.39, 64.32, 96.36°)
OKLab	oklab(84.58% -0.0252 0.1443)
OKLCH	oklch(84.58% 0.146 99.9)
XYZ	xyz(55.1274, 61.0260, 16.0817)
Luminance	0.6102 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E3CE4E #4E63E3

analogous

#E3844E #E3CE4E #ADE34E

triadic

#E3CE4E #4EE3CE #CE4EE3

tetradic

#E3CE4E #4EE384 #4E63E3 #E34EAD

square

#E3CE4E #4EE384 #4E63E3 #E34EAD

split-complementary

#E3CE4E #4EADE3 #844EE3

monochromatic

#9E8B19 #D3BA21 #E3CE4E #EBDD83 #F4EBB8

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.59

#E3CE4E on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.20

#E3CE4E on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E3CE4E

13.20:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E3CE4E	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E3CE4E	1.00	1.59	13.20	13.20
#FFFFFF	1.59	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.20	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.20	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E1C83E

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E7D055

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F4C0B3

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CDCDCD

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e3ce4e;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(227, 206, 78);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.6% 0.146 99.9);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#efdc86',
    500: '#e3ce4e',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e3ce4e;
$custom-light: #efdc86;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e3ce4e",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 227,
    "g": 206,
    "b": 78
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 51.544,
    "s": 72.683,
    "l": 59.804
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84579,
    "c": 0.14648,
    "h": 99.9
  },
  "luminance": 0.61024
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E3CE4E

secondary

#3444A1

accent

#52EF38

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF3

border

#D7D4CD

text

#17150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E3CE4E

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

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