#E3D94D#E3D94D

#E3D94D is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.665; OKLCH L 86.8% C 0.157 H 105.2°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.30:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E3D94D
RGB	rgb(227, 217, 77)
HSL	hsl(56, 73%, 60%)
HSV	hsv(56, 66%, 89%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 4.4%, 66.1%, 11%)
CIE-LAB	lab(85.25, -12.72, 67.28)
CIE-LCH	lch(85.25, 68.47, 100.71°)
OKLab	oklab(86.85% -0.0412 0.1512)
OKLCH	oklch(86.85% 0.157 105.2)
XYZ	xyz(57.8332, 66.4945, 16.8081)
Luminance	0.6649 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E3D94D #4D57E3

analogous

#E38E4D #E3D94D #A2E34D

triadic

#E3D94D #4DE3D9 #D94DE3

tetradic

#E3D94D #4DE38E #4D57E3 #E34DA2

square

#E3D94D #4DE38E #4D57E3 #E34DA2

split-complementary

#E3D94D #4DA2E3 #8E4DE3

monochromatic

#9D9419 #D2C621 #E3D94D #EBE482 #F4F0B7

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.47

#E3D94D on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.30

#E3D94D on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E3D94D

14.30:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E3D94D	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E3D94D	1.00	1.47	14.30	14.30
#FFFFFF	1.47	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.30	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.30	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#EBD13A

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EFD856

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F3CBBD

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D5D5D5

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e3d94d;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(227, 217, 77);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(86.8% 0.157 105.2);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#efe486',
    500: '#e3d94d',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e3d94d;
$custom-light: #efe486;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e3d94d",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 227,
    "g": 217,
    "b": 77
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 56,
    "s": 72.816,
    "l": 59.608
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.86846,
    "c": 0.15674,
    "h": 105.2
  },
  "luminance": 0.66492
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E3D94D

secondary

#343BA0

accent

#45F038

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF3

border

#D7D5CD

text

#17150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E3D94D

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

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