#E5CD57#E5CD57

#E5CD57 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.610; OKLCH L 84.6% C 0.139 H 97.8°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.20:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5CD57
RGB	rgb(229, 205, 87)
HSL	hsl(50, 73%, 62%)
HSV	hsv(50, 62%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 10.5%, 62%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.38, -5.24, 60.17)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.38, 60.40, 94.97°)
OKLab	oklab(84.64% -0.0189 0.1376)
OKLCH	oklch(84.64% 0.139 97.8)
XYZ	xyz(55.8671, 61.0113, 17.8486)
Luminance	0.6101 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5CD57 #576FE5

analogous

#E58657 #E5CD57 #B6E557

triadic

#E5CD57 #57E5CD #CD57E5

tetradic

#E5CD57 #57E586 #576FE5 #E557B6

square

#E5CD57 #57E586 #576FE5 #E557B6

split-complementary

#E5CD57 #57B6E5 #8657E5

monochromatic

#A8901A #DDBD22 #E5CD57 #EDDD8C #F5EDC1

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.59

#E5CD57 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.20

#E5CD57 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5CD57

13.20:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5CD57	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5CD57	1.00	1.59	13.20	13.20
#FFFFFF	1.59	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.20	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.20	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E0C84A

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E6D15D

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F6BFB4

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CDCDCD

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5cd57;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 205, 87);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.6% 0.139 97.8);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0db8b',
    500: '#e5cd57',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5cd57;
$custom-light: #f0db8b;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5cd57",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 205,
    "b": 87
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 49.859,
    "s": 73.196,
    "l": 61.961
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84638,
    "c": 0.13891,
    "h": 97.8
  },
  "luminance": 0.61009
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5CD57

secondary

#374AAA

accent

#32D510

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF4

border

#D7D4CE

text

#17150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5CD57

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

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