#E5CA53#E5CA53

#E5CA53 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.595; OKLCH L 84.0% C 0.140 H 96.4°. Best body text is #000000 at 12.90:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5CA53
RGB	rgb(229, 202, 83)
HSL	hsl(49, 74%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(49, 64%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 11.8%, 63.8%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(81.58, -3.95, 61.02)
CIE-LCH	lch(81.58, 61.15, 93.71°)
OKLab	oklab(83.99% -0.0157 0.1389)
OKLCH	oklch(83.99% 0.14 96.4)
XYZ	xyz(54.9974, 59.5263, 16.7748)
Luminance	0.5952 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5CA53 #536EE5

analogous

#E58153 #E5CA53 #B7E553

triadic

#E5CA53 #53E5CA #CA53E5

tetradic

#E5CA53 #53E581 #536EE5 #E553B7

square

#E5CA53 #53E581 #536EE5 #E553B7

split-complementary

#E5CA53 #53B7E5 #8153E5

monochromatic

#A58B19 #DAB821 #E5CA53 #EDDA88 #F5EBBD

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.63

#E5CA53 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

12.90

#E5CA53 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5CA53

12.90:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5CA53	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5CA53	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)

#DDC645

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E4CF59

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F6BCB1

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CBCBCB

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5ca53;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 202, 83);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.0% 0.140 96.4);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1d988',
    500: '#e5ca53',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5ca53;
$custom-light: #f1d988;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5ca53",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 202,
    "b": 83
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 48.904,
    "s": 73.737,
    "l": 61.176
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.8399,
    "c": 0.13974,
    "h": 96.4
  },
  "luminance": 0.59524
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5CA53

secondary

#354AA7

accent

#34D610

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF4

border

#D7D4CE

text

#17140C

muted

#85837F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5CA53

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

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