#E4CC56#E4CC56

#E4CC56 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.604; OKLCH L 84.3% C 0.139 H 97.8°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.07:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E4CC56
RGB	rgb(228, 204, 86)
HSL	hsl(50, 72%, 62%)
HSV	hsv(50, 62%, 89%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 10.5%, 62.3%, 10.6%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.03, -5.21, 60.19)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.03, 60.42, 94.94°)
OKLab	oklab(84.33% -0.0188 0.1376)
OKLCH	oklch(84.33% 0.139 97.8)
XYZ	xyz(55.2698, 60.3541, 17.5405)
Luminance	0.6035 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E4CC56 #566EE4

analogous

#E48556 #E4CC56 #B5E456

triadic

#E4CC56 #56E4CC #CC56E4

tetradic

#E4CC56 #56E485 #566EE4 #E456B5

square

#E4CC56 #56E485 #566EE4 #E456B5

split-complementary

#E4CC56 #56B5E4 #8556E4

monochromatic

#A58E1A #DABB23 #E4CC56 #ECDC8B #F5ECC0

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.61

#E4CC56 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.07

#E4CC56 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E4CC56

13.07:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E4CC56	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E4CC56	1.00	1.61	13.07	13.07
#FFFFFF	1.61	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.07	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.07	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#DFC749

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E5D05C

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5BEB3

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CCCCCC

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e4cc56;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(228, 204, 86);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.3% 0.139 97.8);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0db8a',
    500: '#e4cc56',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e4cc56;
$custom-light: #f0db8a;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e4cc56",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 228,
    "g": 204,
    "b": 86
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 49.859,
    "s": 72.449,
    "l": 61.569
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84334,
    "c": 0.13884,
    "h": 97.8
  },
  "luminance": 0.60352
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E4CC56

secondary

#374AA7

accent

#32D511

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF4

border

#D7D4CE

text

#17140C

muted

#85837F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E4CC56

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

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