#E4C650#E4C650

#E4C650 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.575; OKLCH L 83.1% C 0.139 H 94.9°. Best body text is #000000 at 12.49:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E4C650
RGB	rgb(228, 198, 80)
HSL	hsl(48, 73%, 60%)
HSV	hsv(48, 65%, 89%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 13.2%, 64.9%, 10.6%)
CIE-LAB	lab(80.44, -2.50, 61.06)
CIE-LCH	lch(80.44, 61.11, 92.34°)
OKLab	oklab(83.06% -0.0118 0.1385)
OKLCH	oklch(83.06% 0.139 94.9)
XYZ	xyz(53.6395, 57.4641, 15.8542)
Luminance	0.5746 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E4C650 #506EE4

analogous

#E47C50 #E4C650 #B8E450

triadic

#E4C650 #50E4C6 #C650E4

tetradic

#E4C650 #50E47C #506EE4 #E450B8

square

#E4C650 #50E47C #506EE4 #E450B8

split-complementary

#E4C650 #50B8E4 #7C50E4

monochromatic

#A18519 #D6B121 #E4C650 #ECD785 #F4E9BA

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.68

#E4C650 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

12.49

#E4C650 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E4C650

12.49:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E4C650	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E4C650	1.00	1.68	12.49	12.49
#FFFFFF	1.68	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	12.49	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	12.49	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#D9C242

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E1CC56

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5B8AD

Achromatopsia (no color)

#C8C8C8

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e4c650;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(228, 198, 80);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(83.1% 0.139 94.9);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0d786',
    500: '#e4c650',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e4c650;
$custom-light: #f0d786;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e4c650",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 228,
    "g": 198,
    "b": 80
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 47.838,
    "s": 73.267,
    "l": 60.392
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.83059,
    "c": 0.13901,
    "h": 94.9
  },
  "luminance": 0.57461
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E4C650

secondary

#354BA4

accent

#38D510

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF3

border

#D7D4CD

text

#17140C

muted

#85837F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E4C650

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

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