#E3E960#E3E960

#E3E960 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.755; OKLCH L 90.4% C 0.158 H 111.5°. Best body text is #000000 at 16.09:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E3E960
RGB	rgb(227, 233, 96)
HSL	hsl(63, 76%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(63, 59%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(2.6%, 0%, 58.8%, 8.6%)
CIE-LAB	lab(89.61, -19.41, 64.16)
CIE-LCH	lch(89.61, 67.04, 106.83°)
OKLab	oklab(90.37% -0.0581 0.1473)
OKLCH	oklch(90.37% 0.158 111.5)
XYZ	xyz(62.9304, 75.4547, 22.3132)
Luminance	0.7545 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

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Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E3E960 #6660E9

analogous

#E9AB60 #E3E960 #9EE960

triadic

#E3E960 #60E3E9 #E960E3

tetradic

#E3E960 #60E9AB #6660E9 #E9609E

square

#E3E960 #60E9AB #6660E9 #E9609E

split-complementary

#E3E960 #609EE9 #AB60E9

monochromatic

#AFB519 #DAE22A #E3E960 #ECF096 #F6F8CC

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.31

#E3E960 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

16.09

#E3E960 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E3E960

16.09:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E3E960	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E3E960	1.00	1.31	16.09	16.09
#FFFFFF	1.31	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	16.09	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	16.09	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F9DF50

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FAE368

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F1DCCC

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E1E1E1

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e3e960;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(227, 233, 96);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(90.4% 0.158 111.5);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#efef92',
    500: '#e3e960',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e3e960;
$custom-light: #efef92;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e3e960",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 227,
    "g": 233,
    "b": 96
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 62.628,
    "s": 75.691,
    "l": 64.51
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.90369,
    "c": 0.15838,
    "h": 111.5
  },
  "luminance": 0.75453
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E3E960

secondary

#3D38B5

accent

#0ED816

background

#FFFFFC

surface

#FEFEF4

border

#D6D6CE

text

#17160D

muted

#85857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E3E960

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

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