#E5CC59#E5CC59

#E5CC59 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.606; OKLCH L 84.5% C 0.137 H 97.1°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.11:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5CC59
RGB	rgb(229, 204, 89)
HSL	hsl(49, 73%, 62%)
HSV	hsv(49, 61%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 10.9%, 61.1%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.15, -4.60, 59.03)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.15, 59.21, 94.45°)
OKLab	oklab(84.46% -0.0168 0.1355)
OKLCH	oklch(84.46% 0.137 97.1)
XYZ	xyz(55.7115, 60.5676, 18.2054)
Luminance	0.6057 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5CC59 #5972E5

analogous

#E58659 #E5CC59 #B8E559

triadic

#E5CC59 #59E5CC #CC59E5

tetradic

#E5CC59 #59E586 #5972E5 #E559B8

square

#E5CC59 #59E586 #5972E5 #E559B8

split-complementary

#E5CC59 #59B8E5 #8659E5

monochromatic

#A9901A #DDBC24 #E5CC59 #EDDC8E #F6EDC3

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.60

#E5CC59 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.11

#E5CC59 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5CC59

13.11:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5CC59	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5CC59	1.00	1.60	13.11	13.11
#FFFFFF	1.60	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.11	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.11	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#DFC84C

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E5D05F

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F6BEB3

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CCCCCC

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5cc59;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 204, 89);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.5% 0.137 97.1);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0db8c',
    500: '#e5cc59',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5cc59;
$custom-light: #f0db8c;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5cc59",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 204,
    "b": 89
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 49.286,
    "s": 72.917,
    "l": 62.353
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84455,
    "c": 0.13651,
    "h": 97.1
  },
  "luminance": 0.60565
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5CC59

secondary

#374CAB

accent

#34D510

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF4

border

#D7D4CE

text

#17140C

muted

#85837F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5CC59

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

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