#E5CD59#E5CD59

#E5CD59 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.610; OKLCH L 84.7% C 0.137 H 97.7°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.21:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5CD59
RGB	rgb(229, 205, 89)
HSL	hsl(50, 73%, 62%)
HSV	hsv(50, 61%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 10.5%, 61.1%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.40, -5.11, 59.32)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.40, 59.54, 94.92°)
OKLab	oklab(84.66% -0.0183 0.1361)
OKLCH	oklch(84.66% 0.137 97.7)
XYZ	xyz(55.9499, 61.0445, 18.2849)
Luminance	0.6104 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5CD59 #5971E5

analogous

#E58759 #E5CD59 #B7E559

triadic

#E5CD59 #59E5CD #CD59E5

tetradic

#E5CD59 #59E587 #5971E5 #E559B7

square

#E5CD59 #59E587 #5971E5 #E559B7

split-complementary

#E5CD59 #59B7E5 #8759E5

monochromatic

#A9911A #DDBD24 #E5CD59 #EDDD8E #F6EDC3

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.59

#E5CD59 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.21

#E5CD59 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5CD59

13.21:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5CD59	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5CD59	1.00	1.59	13.21	13.21
#FFFFFF	1.59	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.21	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.21	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#DFC84C

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E6D15F

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F6BFB4

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CDCDCD

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5cd59;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 205, 89);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.7% 0.137 97.7);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0dc8c',
    500: '#e5cd59',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5cd59;
$custom-light: #f0dc8c;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5cd59",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 205,
    "b": 89
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 49.714,
    "s": 72.917,
    "l": 62.353
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84658,
    "c": 0.1373,
    "h": 97.7
  },
  "luminance": 0.61042
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5CD59

secondary

#374BAB

accent

#32D510

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF4

border

#D7D4CE

text

#17150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5CD59

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

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