#E5C953#E5C953

#E5C953 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.591; OKLCH L 83.8% C 0.139 H 95.9°. Best body text is #000000 at 12.81:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5C953
RGB	rgb(229, 201, 83)
HSL	hsl(48, 74%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(48, 64%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 12.2%, 63.8%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(81.32, -3.44, 60.75)
CIE-LCH	lch(81.32, 60.85, 93.24°)
OKLab	oklab(83.79% -0.0142 0.1383)
OKLCH	oklch(83.79% 0.139 95.9)
XYZ	xyz(54.7636, 59.0585, 16.6968)
Luminance	0.5906 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5C953 #536FE5

analogous

#E58053 #E5C953 #B8E553

triadic

#E5C953 #53E5C9 #C953E5

tetradic

#E5C953 #53E580 #536FE5 #E553B8

square

#E5C953 #53E580 #536FE5 #E553B8

split-complementary

#E5C953 #53B8E5 #8053E5

monochromatic

#A58A19 #DAB621 #E5C953 #EDDA88 #F5EABD

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.64

#E5C953 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

12.81

#E5C953 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5C953

12.81:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5C953	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5C953	1.00	1.64	12.81	12.81
#FFFFFF	1.64	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	12.81	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	12.81	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#DCC545

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E3CE59

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F6BBB0

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CACACA

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5c953;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 201, 83);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(83.8% 0.139 95.9);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1d988',
    500: '#e5c953',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5c953;
$custom-light: #f1d988;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5c953",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 201,
    "b": 83
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 48.493,
    "s": 73.737,
    "l": 61.176
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.83787,
    "c": 0.13901,
    "h": 95.9
  },
  "luminance": 0.59056
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5C953

secondary

#354BA7

accent

#36D610

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF4

border

#D7D4CE

text

#17140C

muted

#85837F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5C953

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

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