#E5CA50#E5CA50

#E5CA50 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.595; OKLCH L 84.0% C 0.142 H 96.7°. Best body text is #000000 at 12.90:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5CA50
RGB	rgb(229, 202, 80)
HSL	hsl(49, 74%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(49, 65%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 11.8%, 65.1%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(81.56, -4.13, 62.27)
CIE-LCH	lch(81.56, 62.41, 93.80°)
OKLab	oklab(83.96% -0.0165 0.1411)
OKLCH	oklch(83.96% 0.142 96.7)
XYZ	xyz(54.8841, 59.4809, 16.1779)
Luminance	0.5948 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5CA50 #506BE5

analogous

#E58050 #E5CA50 #B5E550

triadic

#E5CA50 #50E5CA #CA50E5

tetradic

#E5CA50 #50E580 #506BE5 #E550B5

square

#E5CA50 #50E580 #506BE5 #E550B5

split-complementary

#E5CA50 #50B5E5 #8050E5

monochromatic

#A28918 #D8B620 #E5CA50 #EDDA85 #F5EABB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.63

#E5CA50 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

12.90

#E5CA50 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5CA50

12.90:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5CA50	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5CA50	1.00	1.63	12.90	12.90
#FFFFFF	1.63	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	12.90	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	12.90	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#DDC641

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E4CE56

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F6BCB0

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CBCBCB

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5ca50;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 202, 80);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.0% 0.142 96.7);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1d987',
    500: '#e5ca50',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5ca50;
$custom-light: #f1d987;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5ca50",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 202,
    "b": 80
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 49.128,
    "s": 74.129,
    "l": 60.588
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.83962,
    "c": 0.14201,
    "h": 96.7
  },
  "luminance": 0.59478
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5CA50

secondary

#3449A5

accent

#33D60F

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF3

border

#D7D4CD

text

#17140C

muted

#85837F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5CA50

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

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